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I saw 'buca' for 'bucca' and 'letu' for 'lectum' in Sardinian. I read that 1230 latin text. It did not tell me much yet. There are some cases of 'e' for 'ae' and 'nil' is used always if one could use 'nihil' as well. Instead of 'lectione' it says 'lecione'. I have been wondering for a while, if 'ctio' did regularly develop to 'czio' in Italian or if it is learnt. Mozarabic had 'tS' for 'k' before 'i' and 'e'. Maybe we should use that for the western north african romlangs, although that is not a very special development. What do you mean by emphatic stops? Is it still about Carrajina? I read that Latin had emphatic gemination of consonants. > P > /b/ > PP > /p/ > T > /d/ > TT > /t/ > C > /g/ > CC > /k/ > > > B, D and G may have gone to /B/, /D/ and /G/ before collapsing with /b/, /d/ > and /g/ or they may have just collapsed together. That stage of the > language is not well documented; however, I believe there may be an Arabic > script document or two that uses the "emphatic" stops in that script to > represent what, etymologically, would have been original Latin B D G, so an > arguement has been made for just that. > > Adam