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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4" <theophilus88@h...> wrote: > Inspired by Moroccan Colloquial Arabic, I am contemplating adding > emphatics to the evolution of Uchunata. Specifically > > short /u/ and /o/ affect contiguous consonants within the same > syllable. > When /u/, /i/ become /i\/ and /o/, /e/ become /@/, the changed > consonant remains. > > Thus [et] becomes[8t] /ot/, but [ut] becomes [i\t_?\] /yt/ > [pokula] > [f8_?\qr_?\a] /focra/ > > Then, when the Marinids take over for two centuries, the emphatics, > clearly heard by the Berber settlers, are written down. The > Fortunatian contingent to al-Wiraniyya (Islamic South America) carry > the phonetics and orthography with them. > > What do you think?