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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Roger Mills" <romilly@e...> wrote: > > Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:30:24 -0000 > > From: "habarakhe4" <theophilus88@h...> > > Subject: Re: > > > --- 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 > > > I'm not overly familiar with the Arabic/Semitic emphatics, but it's always > possible that the sounds could be _adapted_ to something pronounceable. If > I'm not mistaken, Span. alcalde is from Arab. qa(d)i, where the (d) was > emphatic. Indonesian has this word too, as simple kadi. Indonesian also > has _perlu_ 'to need', which I think has an emph. _d_ in the Arab. (usually > cited as "fadlu" or some such) though I could be mistaken. I've settled on separated populations for Uchunata [ut`u"nata] on the Islands and Aht.unata [aht.unata] on the mainland. A further subgroup is the prenasalized Fortunatian: Etruscan may have had prenasalized consonants. In Early Fortunatian, this would produce words such as ngonh [N_g8J] 'ingenius', to which those who could not pronounce prenasalized consonants would add y- [i\]-, producing the canonical [i\N_g8J]. The two Classical Fortunatian forms would be njonh [n_d_Z8J] and ynjonh [i\n_d_Z8J]. Comments on how large and where this subgroup should be? I aim to please. And remember that Facxa (Easter) is approaching.