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--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4" <theophilus88@h...> wrote: > I have a similar problem with Porphyrean (Azorean) Fortunatian. The > majority of settlers had already merged the retroflex plosives and > alveopalatal affricates, Good. I'm not fond of retroflexes at all. ;-) > but now the "iubonex" are lowering the > vowels in unstressed syllables. And who would they be? (You've probably mentioned it before, I'm just terrible with names. ;-) > Other changes include fronting of [s] to [T] and [S] to [s], > including affricates. > [fat.] > [fat_S] > [fat_s] > [tsrat] > [tTrat] (whee! I have [tT]!) You mean you *like* [tT]? ;-) > Initial consonant clusters are simplifying, although I have yet to > figure out the precise details. Sounds good. Though on the other hand, Fortunatian loses some of its unconditional exoticity with these changes. Is this development only a slang or a global movement of the Fortunatian language? -- Christian Thalmann