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Re: [romanceconlang] North African Vulgar Latin

From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@hidden.email>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:44:12 +0200 (MEST)

En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@hidden.email>:


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I don't remember how Romanian treats QU, but why not do what P-Celtic languages did with the Proto-celtic KW and make it become P? It wouldn't conflict with 
matters of palatalisation IMHO. Of course, it may already be what Romanian
does :)) .

Christophe.



That's exactly what Romanian does.  AQUA > APA  EQUAM > IAPA
QUATTUOR > PATRU

but QUINQUE > CINCI
I don't find an example in the text I was consulting of a Latin word with QUO or QUU to show those developments, but I guess I could arrange for QU to go different directions depending on the following vowel. 

QUA > pa
QUO > po
QUU > pu
QUI > chi
QUE > whe

Does this look realistic??

Also, Romanian develops Latin ct > pt.  So, I *might* do that too.
Does anyone know if Algerian and Tunisian Arabic is closer to Egyptian or Moroccan? 

Adam

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In spite of it all it's a beautiful world.
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