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Re: [romanceconlang] North African Vulgar Latin

Okay, here I am back with another quandry. I'm trying to decide how L-clusters develop. I'm looking at CL, PL, and FL and I've come up with three possible senarios. Are any of them inherently implausible? Any of them especially appealing? At present I'm leaning toward the third choice. 

1st option

CL > /kl/
PL > /pj/
FL > /S/

2nd option

CL > /kr/
PL > /pr/
FL > /fr/

3rd option

CL > /pl/
PL > /fl/
FL > /S/
The /S/ in both option 1 and 3 is actually a sort of cross between /S/ and /f/ which occurs in Shona. 

Well, what think you?
I'm also trying to decide what to do with initial S-clusters. I know Spanish, Portuguese and French (and I assume Catalan and Occitan?) add an epenthetic vowel. I know Italian (and IIRC Romanian) doesn't. What does Romansh do? Sardinian? Sicilian? Does anyone know if North African (Algeria & Tunisia) Arabic likes initial "S", "F", etc. or no? What about "R"? 

Adam

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