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Hello! A small problem arose concerning the sound shifts of Terkunan: I don't like the sound of -/ls/ at the end of words but it frequently occurs due to a regularised plural ending -/s/. Since the pronouns are regular, too, I constantly see |ilz| /ils/ 'they'. Any idea what to do about this? Terkunan is meant to be a typical romlang, but there is no trace of an l > u shift and I don't want one, because I don't like the diphthongs that will arise from that. There are quite frequent r <> l switches, however, but currently, the language tends towards -l at ends of words (e.g. arbul 'tree'). For polysyllabic words, anyway. I thought about having -l > -r in monosyllabics and switching the overall tendencies for l/r. It would affect a lot of things: (Current words are given in parens:) ILLE > (il) ir 'he,she,it' => irz 'they' CAELUM > (kel) ker 'heaven,sky' => kerz 'heavens, skies' SOL > (sul) sur 'sun' MILLE > (mil) mir 'thousand' NULLUM > (nul) nur 'zero' MALUM > (mal) mar 'bad' == mar 'ocean' And also: ARBOREM > (arbul) albur 'tree' MANTELUM > (mantil) mantir 'cape, cloak' Maybe even (less likely due to mixed original distribution of l and r): BOREALEM > (boral) bolar 'northern' I am not really content with this, especially the monosyllabics are not what I dream of. What other shifts of -l would be feasible? Any ideas? Could I handle -/ls/ specially? The -/l/ itself I find quite nice. **Henrik