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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@u...> wrote: > Christian Thalmann eskriviw: > > > > --- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4" > <theophilus88@h...> wrote: > > > > Inspired by Moroccan Colloquial Arabic, I am contemplating > adding > > > > emphatics to the evolution of Uchunata. > > > > That would be unfortunate (pun not intended). Currently, > > Fortunatian is intriguingly exotic, yet pronounceable and > > aesthetically tolerable to me. It would forfeit those two > > latter properties if it picked up emphatics, which are far > > beyond my articulatory comprehension and curdle my blood > > with their hateful ugliness. > > I merely second Christain's opinion. > > -- Yitzik Very well. Perhaps the development of emphatics occurred on the mainland among a group of early Fortunatian Latin speakers of Berber descent, who were later cut off and became a tribe in the Atlas Mountains. Then South Romance would have more than one branch, and the Berber phonetic environment would produce much the same changes. 1) Latin A) Old Fortunatian (Fortunata) i) Classical Fortunatian (Ut`unata) a) "Free" Fortunatian (Uchunata) 1+) Otsonata b) "Captive" Fortunatian (Ut.unata) 1+) New World Fortunatian (Belemata) B) Coast Fortunation (For.t.unat.a) i) Atlas Fortunatian (similar, but not identical changes) An it please thy good sirs the more?