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On Apr 19, 2004, at 5:52 AM, habarakhe4 wrote:
Surely a romlang would be biased towards full spelling? How do you deal with the presence of long and short /o/ and /e/ in Latin?
The long vowels would generally just remain the corresponding [Classical] Hebrew vowels: /e/ and /o/ Short /e/ in a closed syllable (or stressed open syllable) would probably end up as /E/, and in a non-stressed open syllable shift 'lengthen' to /e/ Short /o/ in some cases would follow the development of the segolized short /u/ in the word /mund(i)/ > /monEd/. In closed syllables it'd probably just end up as /O/, with possible dialect-mixing-based variation with ('short') /u/.
-Stephen (Steg) "better to be late than 'the late'."