What is the Spezia-Rimini line?

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What is the Spezia-Rimini line?

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What is the Spezia-Rimini line- or rather, what does it mean and how are languages on each side of the line fundamentally different from each other? I know what it is, I suppose.
And, how do I completely ignore it without making a terrible roman tongue?
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The La Spezia-Rimini line is not to be ignored. East of this line, all Romance languages form their plurals by vowel change, because the final -s was dropped very early. West of this line, plurals were formed by adding an -s, as it wasn't dropped there until much later.

If you want to ‘completely ignore’ it, maybe you should take a look at Sardinian, which branched off so early that the La Spezia-Rimini line didn't exist yet.
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Egerius wrote:The La Spezia-Rimini line is not to be ignored. East of this line, all Romance languages form their plurals by vowel change, because the final -s was dropped very early. West of this line, plurals were formed by adding an -s, as it wasn't dropped there until much later.

If you want to ‘completely ignore’ it, maybe you should take a look at Sardinian, which branched off so early that the La Spezia-Rimini line didn't exist yet.
Is that all? And also, if Sardinian is not like the others, what does it do for its own plurals?
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Isfendil wrote:
Egerius wrote:The La Spezia-Rimini line is not to be ignored. East of this line, all Romance languages form their plurals by vowel change, because the final -s was dropped very early. West of this line, plurals were formed by adding an -s, as it wasn't dropped there until much later.

If you want to ‘completely ignore’ it, maybe you should take a look at Sardinian, which branched off so early that the La Spezia-Rimini line didn't exist yet.
Is that all? And also, if Sardinian is not like the others, what does it do for its own plurals?
With -s, like Western Romance. It doesn't share a lot of isoglosses with either West or East Romance though, that's why it is its own branch.
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Avo wrote:
Isfendil wrote:
Egerius wrote:The La Spezia-Rimini line is not to be ignored. East of this line, all Romance languages form their plurals by vowel change, because the final -s was dropped very early. West of this line, plurals were formed by adding an -s, as it wasn't dropped there until much later.

If you want to ‘completely ignore’ it, maybe you should take a look at Sardinian, which branched off so early that the La Spezia-Rimini line didn't exist yet.
Is that all? And also, if Sardinian is not like the others, what does it do for its own plurals?
With -s, like Western Romance. It doesn't share a lot of isoglosses with either West or East Romance though, that's why it is its own branch.
So then what are these isogloss differences?
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I was writing a long post about the isogloss differences, but then my computer overheated and I lost everything. To summarize what I wrote: You really shouldn't worry about it, the Romance family is determined by much more than a couple of lines. Just do what you like. (That being said, do research on Romance languages. Wikipedia is a good start)
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qwed117 wrote:I was writing a long post about the isogloss differences, but then my computer overheated and I lost everything. To summarize what I wrote: You really shouldn't worry about it, the Romance family is determined by much more than a couple of lines. Just do what you like. (That being said, do research on Romance languages. Wikipedia is a good start)
Aaaiii that sucks! For the both of us. Sorry about that! At any rate, thank you. I will do as I please and research.
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