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Barry wrote: > romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com writes: > >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". > > > >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? > > I recently settled on what Montreiano does. What happened is: > > mn > nn > nr > ndr > > I did it this way because i didnt really want to do it like Spanish did, > and [ndr] sounded like a possible and reasonable sound change. Does this mean that annum gives andro, too??? Luca