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Hi! old_astrologer writes: > --- 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]. Ah, that's funny, Sicilian seems to do something in the other way, e.g., it has vurkanu < VOLCANUM. A shift that Terkunan shares: 'vurkan'. I really like these l <> r shifts. :-) > 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. Interesting. On the Conlang list, I also received the suggestion to lengthen the vowel. Both lengthenings look nice. Vowel lengthening would probably lead to more irregular forms, since long vowels shift differently from short ones. > So arbul with plural arbul or arbus? What do you think? I like it and I will consider it. With vowel length, we'd get kel 'heaven' > kiz 'heavens'. With consonant length, kel > kez. **Henrik