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En réponse à Dan Jones <feuchard@hidden.email>: > I've encountered some trouble with Medolian. I just can't decide what to > do with the Vulgar Latin cluster -mn-. First thought was excrescence, > along the lines of Spanish: *homne > ômbre > oambre /'wambr@/. However, > "feambra" /'fjambra/ doesn't sound like a good word for "woman". > Well, Spanish does have "hembra" < femina, but it's not used for "woman". > We get to the Crunch: > How do other (con-)romancelangs deal with this cluster? Spanish does > excrescence, French assimilates, Italian does nothing (laziness...), so > what does everyone else do? > Narbonósc assimilates into /n/ (which in turns disappears with nasalisation of the preceeding vowel if the ending had disappeared), thus hom /O~/ and fêne /fEn/. As for my future Arabo-Romance conlang, I've already decided that there the cluster /mn/ will undergo nasal dissimilation (the first segment losing its nasal component), thus: /mn/ > /bn/, leading to the cluster /bn/ which is not unusual for a language influenced by Arabic. Of course, you could after that have again assimilation: /bn/ > /bm/. I'll stop at /bn/ though :) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr