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Re: [romconlang] re: What are african romlangs like?

2011-04-18 11:10, Daniel Prohaska skrev:

If I recall correctly, I remember reading somewhere that
African Romance was similar in phonology to Sardinian. Both
varieties lost phonemic vowel quantity distinctions before the
long and short vowels were qualitatively dissimilated. This is
why in the Sardinian system the Classical Latin vowels /i:/ and
/i/ merge, while in the other varieties of Romance /i:/
remained while /i/ merged with /e:/.

Dan


We have Augcustine's words for that:

"Afrae aures de correptione vocalium vel productione non
iudicant". Augustine De doctrina christiana 4.24

Cf. <http://www.frathwiki.com/User:Melroch/Vulgar_Latin>

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