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Re: [romconlang] question - Latin/English glossary?



On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 01:53:15PM -0700, Anton Sherwood wrote:
>    Unless for a branch where quantity constrast was lost.

The quantity contrast was eventually lost most places, except sometimes
in e and o.  But knowing what vowels used to be long is still important,
as it determined stress, and the development of stressed sounds was
often different from the development of otherwise-identical
unstressed sound.

-Marcos