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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote: > --- habarakhe4 skrzypszy: habaraque 4 at cxrift > > > That's largely because the horizontal vowel-merges are completely > > counterintuitive to anyone with other Romance-language experience. > > i, u > y [i\] > > e, o > e [@] or [8] > > i: > i [i] > > u: > u [u] > > o: > au [o] > > e: > e [e] > > a: > a [a] > > Yeah, but as I recall the consonants undergo some pretty weird changes as well. > Would you be so kind to give once more the link to your sound changes? (and, > perhaps, give us a sentence to try to decypher?) > (1) Vns > V:s gn > Nn (2) C-um#, -am#, -em#, -im# > C# l > r puellam > fue:r ae, oe > e: taedium > te:di au > o: laudem > ro:d w/v > b lavo: > rabo: VNC > VNN > V:N (usually, not always ? sometimes presence/absence contextually modified) Vrr > V:r puellam > fuerr > fue:r s > S kasum > kaS ss > s lassum > ras st > St stat > Stat ts > ts (3) i, u > y [i\] missum > mi\S, e, o > e [@] or [8] kord > k8d` i: > i [i] ri:sum > ri:S > riS u: > u [u] lu:dum > ru:d > rud o: > au [o] e: > e [e] ple:na > frena a:, a > a [a] Contraction of words tr, rt > t` tri- > t`i- dr, rd > d` kord- > k8d` St > t_S Stat > t_Sat St`> t`S > t`_s` StriNgo: > St`i\nd_Zo > t`_s`i\nd_Zo f > w <hu> fili > wiri p > f puer > fi\8r > fi\r; fue:r > fi\er > fer kw > p kwantum > kwa:n > pan gw > b aNgwill > aNgwi:l > ambir g > d_Z <j> gener > d_Z8n8r > d_Z8nr > d_Z8rn N > m maNno:s > mamnoS Frequent dropping of initial vowels, especially o [@] and y [i\] (4) d_Zr > rd_Z tra:gressio:n > t`ad_Zr8sjon > t`ard_Z8sjon #d_Zr > #dr gratia:s > d_ZratjaS > dratjaS Cr# > rC# agrum > agr > ad_Zr > ard_Z popul > f8fi\r > f8fr > f8rf i\, joS > wiri\, wirjoS > wiri, wirjoS i, joS (5) t` > t_S t`ard_Z8sjon > t_Sard_Z8sjon t`_s` > t_S nostr > noStr > n8St` > n8t`_s` > n8t_S d` > d_Z korda > k8d`a > k8d_Za However, religious words are often both truly and falsely backformed from t_S, d_Z to t`, d` (t`ard_Z8sjon > t`ard`8sjon)