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On 15 Jul 2009, at 13:10, thomasruhm wrote:
I like 'du' instead of newer 'b'. It is also in the Glosas Emilianenses. I ordered a latin etymological dictionary. Maybe there are more words with 'du' in it.
Well, I believe older duellum for bellum ("war") is another attested Archaic Latin form; my Aquileian and Kuriac would have dwellom, while Ausonic would have dellon (as would probably my koine). I think archaic duis is recorded as the antecedent of Latin bis ("twice"), too. There I'd have Aqi/Kur dwis alongside Aus and koine dis (which, by coincidence, happens to be the Greek cognate of Latin bis, too.)
In Latin-alphabet transcriptions of my conlangs, I tend to use <w> for /w/ instead of <u> or <v> even though its not historical -- after all, my conlangs are not very historical. :) And of course my Romance/Italic conlangs would not use the Roman alphabet; I haven't invented a "conscript" for them, but I might just do something like borrow signs from Linear A or the South Arabian alphabet, since I could conveniently get myself fonts with those signs. :) I think I might assume that my earliest literate Aqileian speakers acquired a syllabary from used in some other language family, and then de- syllabified it to create an alphabetic script .....
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/