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An isogloss or a political border? 🥶🥶🥶

Cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/1728128

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[–] harpo 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

To add a little more confusion, there are two words in Catalan for it. The map says "Pistatxo", which is not wrong, but the synonym I and many people around me use is "festuc", which coincidentally starts with F, so there goes your political border theory.. or not!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Definitive proof of a Catalan vs. Daco-Romance link! /s