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--- Adam Walker skrzypszy: > I can't speak for Uchunata, but Carrajena does exhibit > the so-called Sardinian vowel system. Latin short > vowels collapse together with their long counterparts. > However several details of the consonant developments > are distinctly Eastern Romance (eg. qu > p). But the > formation of plurals with -s is distinctly Western. I > would find it pretty difficult to class C-a. It's > either a Western lang with Eastern features or an > Eastern lang with Western features. Maybe it needs > its own branch -- Southern, or Transmediterranian. Since we are dealing with conlangs here, I think it is inevitable that the connection between languages of the same group are much looser than they are *here*. A logical consequence of the fact that most projects are strictly individual. Wenedyk too shows features of both Western and Eastern Romance (mostly the former, but no -s plurals). I like the idea of a Southern group, even though it will include many languages that have little or nothing in common. Anyway, the alternative would be creating twenty or thirty subgroups, which would make classification rather pointless. For your comparison: the same is the case with the so-called "North Slavic" languages (altogether, between five and ten). But, despite their differences all these languages seem to have several elements in common too. It would be interesting to find out if the same is the case with Southern Romance... Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com