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Re: Romance family tree



Christian Thalmann nevesht:

--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "wayne chevrier" <wachevrier@h...>
wrote:
> Also to be found is my Ladein/Romaencz which is West Romance, but
I'm unsure
> of more specific classification.
> Notable features include:
> a-umlaut:feminine, u-umlaut:masculine noun, i-umlaut:plural
> orthography inspired by Italian and Occitan
> e.g.
> <un caolh>/<oun calh>/<uen caelh>
> |uN kOl_j|/|on Kal_j|/|yn kel_j|
> "a stallion"/ "a mare"/"some horses"
> <fyorh>/fyOZ/ "iron"

Cool!  Got a website for that?
Sorry, but no, it mostly lives in my head

(And is that really /fyOZ/ rather than /fjOZ/?)
Yes. ferrum>*fi@r:u>fyOr:>fyOZ
caballus>kaBal:u>ka:l_ju>kOl_j

Jan van Steenbergen nevesht:
 --- Wayne Chevrier skrzypszy:

> Also to be found is my Ladein/Romaencz which is West Romance, but
> I'm unsure of more specific classification.

Actually, it was on the list as "Latein/Rom�nce". I qualified it as
Germano-Romance, but I don't remember what prompted me to do so. Was
I wrong?

It's only real resemblance to Germanic is the existance of umlaut.

BTW, I second Christian's motion: I'd LOVE to see more of this
language!

Some details
vowels:
unumlauted: a,e,i,o,u,ia,ua //ia,ua from stressed short e,o in VL
i-umlauted: ae,e,i,oe,ue,ie,uei (phonetically approx. e,e,i,2,y,je,He)
u-umlauted: ao,eu,y,o,u,yo,uo (phonetically approx. 0,2,y,0,u,H0,w0)
a-umlauted: a,e,ei,o,ou,ia,ua (phonetically approx. a,e,e,0,0,ja,wa)
consonants:
b,c,ch,cz,d,f,g,gh,g',h,(j),(k),l,lh,m,n,nh,p,ph,qu,r,rh,s,(sz),t,th,v,(w),x,z
ch,gh=/k/,/g/ before i,e,y
cz,g' =/tS/ or/ts/,/dZ/
ph =/f/,th = /t/
qu = /kw/
rh = /Z/ in some dialects, in others closer to Spanish <rr>, in still others to Czech r-hachekand in others /r_j/
lh = /l_j/,/j/, or however you write <ll> from Castiilan in CXS
some use sz for /S/ others write it <scz>



-Wayne Chevrier

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