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On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 07:05:28 -0000 "yitzik_ua <isaacp@hidden.email>"
<isaacp@hidden.email> writes:
> --- 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
-
Sure, go ahead!
-Stephen (Steg)
"It ain?t easy growin up in World War III,
Never knowin what love could be, you?ll see;
I don?t want love to destroy me
like it has done my family."
~ 'family portrait' by pink
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