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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@c...> wrote: >> It suggests to me it was pronounced /j/ (and thus -/ja/ >>and -/jum/) > >Well, that's what I had thought previously -- though one of >the bits you snipped after where I wrote "before a vowel" >adds the important caveat "at the beginning of words"! >Which -ia and -ium aren't. > >Though I had kind of liked the idea of -/ja/ and -/jum/ :) >I was trying to figure out how proper classical Latin went >here, so I could decide whether to follow it in my "revamped >Latin". I think I'd at least move to /-ja/ etc. in >descendants of my "revamped Latin" .... Well, since the /j/ pronunciation *was* current in vulgar Latin I can't see what's stopping you. After all if it's *your revamped* Latin it's your prerogative, isn't it? /BP