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Nuovissime, postille, Christophoro, impressa, etc. Dante's Divine Comedy :D

Contained in "don Quixote": Tordeſillas Alonſo ingenioſo

Yes, of course. In the quoted part of my previous post there's a text of "Don Quixote" where you can check this. In fact, short "s" is only used at the ending of a word. I'm gonna look for a text in XVI c. italian.

I think in castilian worked in the same way. The rules: -Long s (in spanish high s) at the beggining or in the middle of words. -Short s (in spanish low s) at the end. This seemed to be inspired by greek use of ortographic sigma, σ and ς. Nota bene: Περικλῆς, Perikles Σοφοκλής, Sophokles...

I've been searching around and I've found this: http://www.dutchgrammar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1355 In traditional language would sound like /w/ (english or french v), but there is a strong tendency to pronounce it like /f/. To my ears, it sounded always as an F :D

Like "f" in both cases.

1-Iberian language has nothing to do with PIE nor IE. 2-The closest language related to basque, despite of its fragmentary status, is iberian. This is not only a matter of modern linguistical studies, but Strabo gave us a clue (IV,1,1) "1 (176) Next, in order,1 comes Transalpine Celtica.2 I...

Well, surnames are a matter of Medioevo, so we can trace a latin etimology in origin, but not a roman root per se. My opinion is that your surname can be catalan and related to the Almogavar company. BTW, there is a catalan surname Fortuny (ny sounds like french gn) Check this...

http://webs.ono.com/documenta/ib8b_sp.htm Reconstructed basque is very problematic because we don't have known languages to compare, is a very internal process. That's why I put the dutch example. We do know "lots" of IE languages, but what if we didn't know them? We'd be as skeptical on it as...

Obviously basque isn't helfpul to translate iberian: we lack "rosetta stones" in iberian language (latin-iberian, only a few brief and uncompleted scriptions) and there is an important chronological difference between writen basque and iberian. Imagine Europe is a semitic-speaking continent and...

We don't even know where basque-speakers were during good part of the iron age, not to mention bronce age. Their presence in Spain is first attested by a few roman era scarce anthroponyms. Mitxelena's studies on basque language support a dialectal unity in the Early Middle Ages, something...

And what about some basque-patronimical terms related to horse-riding and charriot technology?

"F" was also absent in old celtic languages. Even some of them showed a tendence towards "betacism". It's undeniable that linguistic strata play a role on pronunciation, but basque language isn't excluded form this "rule". F-H shift is also found in dialects of Calabria, Brescia and Romania...

Spanish suffered a phonetic evolution during the Renaissance era, adopting certain traits attributed by some scholars to basque language (partial lost of "f", no distinction between "b" and "v" (betacism), shift from "j" to "kh", five vowels system...The reasons? Mmm, repopulation, high influx...

In Asturias Suevi -absorbed by the visigothi- and Vandali Hasdingi -kicked out by the same visigothi-. The total amount of germanics in Spain -including non germanic alani (iranian)- it is estimated around 200000-300000 individuals (with their non-germanic clients) out of a population of...