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----- Original Message ----- From: Benct Philip Jonsson To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:55 PM Subject: Re: [romconlang] Whither <QV_>? Well, that's actually strange. I'm not up to date on the complexities of the HG consonant shift, but the k > (k)x shift *is* the most restricted part -- OTOH maybe _qu_ did write /(k)xw/ in the dialects where it applied, as AFAIK there would be no possible contrast to **/kw/, since *gw had become *w (or *g in some contexts) in You're right on the limited change, in that in German /kw/ would not shift to */(k)xw/ as an inital /k/ only changed before a vowel. I was kind of wondering aloud there, that since latin doesn't seem to have many words with initial /k/ followed by another consonant (???) if the change in my 'romance' effort might then not come to be applied to initial /k/ in all circumstances, by analogy with the squillion everyday /k/[+vowel] words being pronounced /x/. It's just so tricky trying to listen to miilions of imaginary people, over two millenia, talking. One might go completely insane trying.... West Germanic. In either case I think Pete can silently keep _qu-_ and keep the question of its realization unanswered. Ach!!! That's cheating!!! Tempting idea though... [p_hi:t] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]