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Re: [romconlang] What gender are the names of letters?

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
>...
> Anyway thanks all of you who answered, I needed to know
> because I decided that the name of |ç| in R3 is 'hooked c'
> _c enciniade < oencineade /2ntsinead@/ < UNCÎNÂTA_.
>...

And I assume the beginning of the word derived thus:

   unki.. > onki   (Vulgar Latin vowel mergers)
          > onci   (palatalisation, step 1)
          > ontsi  (palatalisation, step 2)
          > 2ntsi  (i-umlaut)
          > entsi  (derouning)

?

Nice. :-)

> The second _i_ is not a typo: Romance stressed *a in open syllables
> undergoes breaking in R3.  If an Î follows in the next syllable the
> outcome is _ie_ identical to short E in open syllables, and if an Û
> follows in the next syllable the result is _ua < oa < *Q:_.

Interesting system.  It is quite obvious that you like North Germanic
vowels. :-)

For some future lang, I considered letting both /e/ and /o/ break:

    e > ja   / _ (a,u)
    o > ju   / _ (a,i)

This could make some interesting shifts together with i- and u-umlaut
and syncope.

Anyway, I like breaking /a/.

**Henrik