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Adam Walker escreva:
So, I thought I might do the same thing with CL and thus set up a chain of changes. GL, BL, V'L could follow a similar chain GL > /bl/ BL > /vl/ VL > /Z/ Though I'm not sure I like that. VL looks awfully Slavic. But then, Romanian has it. Thinking . . .
FWIW, how about medially vC becomes uC, e.g. numer'a:bilis -> VL nomr'ablis (with deletion of intertonic vowels and lowering of atonic /u/) -> nomr'auli? Initially BL (which is a rare initial cluster in Latin anyway) might become bl > vl > vw or bl > vl > l?
>I'm also a bit conflicted on these. Originally in Montreiano I had them >change to: > >CL>/gj/ - OCULUS > OCLUS > oquio > oguio >PL>/bj/ - PLENA > piena > biena >FL>/vj/ - FLOREM > fiore > vior > >But i'm not quite sure if i'm too happy with it (let's just say i'm mostly >settled). The changes seem logical to me though. > I like it. It seems logical to me.
It seems that in some varieties of Romance post-consonantal /l/ became /l_j/, e.g. PLENU /pleno/ > /pl_jeno/. In Spanish the initial consonant was assimilated to the second element, giving lleno /l_jeno/ and in Italian the /l_j/ became the glide /j/, giving pieno /pjeno/
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