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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4 <theophilus88@h...>" <theophilus88@h...> wrote: > [t.] represents retroflex t. > Where's the fun in making familiar Romance languages? > [fso] is from Latin accusative plural /ipsos/ minus the plural > marker /s/. You might have noticed that most of the words in fat. d@ > noS have no end-vowel. That's because the accusative singular forms > -am, -um, and -em elided in front of vowels; then they were dropped > in front of consonants. -a:s, -o:s, and -e:s became aS, oS, eS, so > you just have to know which vowel is used in the plural form of the > word. > > One of my goals with Fortunatian is to mimic to a certain extent > Berber phonology; therefore p > f. Fortunatian is tolerant of > clusters and sounds even stranger because it has many Etruscan roots > in it, such as: > spura 'city' > Spu:ra > pSu:ra > fSur, fSuraS (f.) > The original consonants were: > p b m f > > t d n l r > > ts dz s > > S j > > k g > > kw gw > > h > > [ts] is from Etruscan /z/ > [dz] is from an archaizing pronunciation of Greek /z/ [S] came from various Etruscan words. Subsequently, [S] became the allophone of /s/ word-initially, word-finally, and before a consonant. Various Berberisms and Hebraisms (since Fortunatian can distinguish between the Hebrew letters samekh [s] and shin [S]) may have disturbed this equilibrium. Classical Latin /v/ had already merged with /b/ in the Canaries when Fortunatian emerged. Consonant Changes p>f f>w rn>n. rt, tr > t. rd, dr > d. kw>p gw>b j>0 g>d_Z THEN l>r sC, SC > Cs, CS (where C= consonant) Vowel reduction Loss of unstressed syllables > > The vowel development is: > 1. > ai>e: > oi>e: > au>o: > 2. > a:>a > e>@ > o>@ > i>y > u>y > e:>e > o:>o > i:>i > u:>u These changes apply to both accented and unaccented syllables. > --- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@y...> > wrote: > > --- "Christian Thalmann <cinga@g...>" > > <cinga@g...> wrote: > > > What is |fso| derived from? It certainly > > > doesn't appear to be |ille|. > > > > ipso. > > > > Maybe? > > > > ===== > > fas peryn omen c' yng ach h-yst yn caleor peryn ndia; > > enffoge yn omen ach h-yst yn caleor per la gouitha. > > > > > > > > > > .