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Re: [romconlang] Re: Capraian diphthongs and vowel shifts

Padraic Brown wrote:


Course, you could always
introduce a rule that /i/ simply disappears in
diphthongs.


Yes, with lengthening, as */ai/ > /a:/ in Old English,
e.g. _casere_ "emperor".

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