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I reply here because I can't reply to the below comment. The claim in wikipedia says that it has more general affinity to the gallo-romance group than to the i
by kilburn 13y ago
I reply here because I can't reply to the below comment.
The claim in wikipedia says that it has more general affinity to the gallo-romance group than to the ibero-romance group. I may be wrong, but I read that as "it is more similar to french/italian than to spanish/portuguese".
Also, I'm not complaining about anything (and I couldn't care less about wheter valencian becomes extinct or not). I was just refuting the op affirmation statement that "You will mainly hear Catalan in the streets of Valencia, not Castillian Spanish".
- dspillett 13y ago>* The claim in wikipedia says that it has more general affinity to the gallo-romance group than to the ibero-romance group. I may be wrong, but I read that as "it is more similar to french/italian than to spanish/portuguese".* There might be a terminology mismatch here and you are talking about different things. Perhaps the core language (syntactic structure, regular verb conjugation patterns, core words) is very like Spanish and that comment on Wikipedia is referring many non-core words in the common vocabulary being pulled from languages common in other neighbouring areas. Caveat: I am no linguist nor do I speak anything much other than Correct English and American English.