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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, theiling@... wrote: >I don't like the sound of -/ls/ at the end of words > ... there is no trace of an l > u shift and I don't want one > I thought about having -l > -r in monosyllabics The change of -l- > -r- tends to occur between vowels, and -r to -l finally. In Korean, where [l] and [r] are allophones, the [l] is syllable final. In Puerto Rico, [l] occurs for /r/ at the end of the syllable, giving [pwelto]. An alternative would be assimilation. Greek turned -ls- (e.g. *estelsa) into -ll- (Lesbian estella) or -l- with a long vowel (Attic esteila), so words in -l could remain unchanged in the plural. I can imagine a change -ls > -ss > -s as well. So arbul with plural arbul or arbus? What do you think? David