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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, draqonfayir@j... wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:51:47 -0000 "habarakhe4 > <theophilus88@h...>" <theophilus88@h...> writes: > > Steg Belsky, > > How on earth did you derive emphatic consonants from Latin? > > Habarakhe/Locutaul [r@kutor] > > [...] > > /t./ comes from /kt/: > /maktare/ > [mA:t.A:l] > /noktis/ > [not.] > > /s./ comes from /ks/: > /eksplo:ra:to:ris/ > [Es.p@lo:rA:so:r] > > Or something along those lines. > The idea is that the rounding in /kw/ and /gw/ turns into a backing, so > they become /q/, which when it comes to Semitic emphatics is generally > considered the same thing as a /k./. The dental /t./ and /s./ come from > the preceding /k/ turning into a co-articulated /?/. > > > -Stephen (Steg) Ah, that's a nice idea! I've already got /ts/ < */s./(Ar) & */kj/, */tj/(VL) in my Rumiya, but was not sure what to do with -kt- cluster! May I try to use your */kt/(VL) > /t./ sound change in Rumiya? Yitzik ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~