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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Carl Edlund Anderson <cea@c...> wrote: > habarakhe4 wrote: > > Of course, the complexity of the Situation is exacerbated by how > > much interference there is from the Gaulish and Celtiberian case > > systems and vocalic phonology. Another question is if /n/ should be > > regarded as weak as Latin /m/. > > When I was thinking about taking Gaulish and pushing it through Spanish > sound changes to create my still tentatively titled > "Albueniga/Albieniga", I was going to treat the final -n of the Gaulish > acc.sing. in just that way (i.e. it would slip away into the Vulgar > Celtic twilight). But then I determined that Celtiberian seems to have > had an acc.sing in -m, which I thought would be even easier to treat in > the manner of Latin -m. > > Cheers, > Carl > > -- > Carl Edlund Anderson > http://www.carlaz.com/ It's a nasal, either way. But the difference comes from whether the /n/ is strong enough to maintain a distinct accusative form -a:, -a:n leads to -a, -a_n thus -a, -a or -a, -an thus -a, -an > -a, -anV