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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote: > On 10/26/07, Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote: > > All diphthongs in Jovian are falling, modeled after the Alemannic > > ones. Thus, we have /ej aj Aj aw ow i@ e@ y@ u@/, as well as > > a syllable-initial consonant /j/ which is no longer treated as > > part of a diphthong. > > Interesting. But u didn't get the same treatment and become > syllable-initial /w/ in some cases? No, Modern Jovian doesn't have /w/ syllable-initially. Another feature gleaned from modern German. I guess it used to have it at an earlier stage, though. Latin VI- words tend to end up as ue- in Jovian: VIDERE -> uerire /y'ri:r/. (R as the lenition of D is a recent feature in Jovian, I haven't updated the corpus yet, so the verb is likely to appear as uezire in past relays etc.) -- Christian Thalmann