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--- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@u...> wrote: > Yitzik comments on his own msg: > > > > I've returned back to my Rumean (Rumiya) conlang project > > as my first priority in conlanging and conculturing. > > After certain investigation I decided to rename the project. Ru:mi: > in Arabic means Byzanthine, but my conlang has nothing to do with > Byzanthium, being an Ibero-Arabic hybride, born in Spain that did > not experience Reconquista. Therefore, I changed its provisional > name to Adjamiya (lit. "foreign", "non-Arabian"). > > If your comp can read unicoded Arabic, here is the name in Arabic > script (used for this lang): > عجÙ?Ù?Ù? > > My best regards, > -- Yitzik The phonological system is Consonants t_d, t_?\, t_S, k, q b, d, d_?\, g f, s, s_?\, S, x, X\, h z, z_?\, Z, G, ?_\ m, n l, (l_?\) r, r_?\ w, y Vowels Full: a, i, u Vestiges of short vowels: @ , U\ (I think the last is right) CA (Classical Arabic) D, D_?\, T > d, d_?\, t a, i, u > @ , # u > U\ (always in presence of velar or uvular), # a: > a i: > i u: > u kbar [kbr_?\=] kbir [kbr=] kbr. [kbr_?\] `bigger' kbr `(to) grow' MCA (Moroccan Colloquial Arabic) avoids pharyngealized alveolars and non-pharyngealized ones in the same stem; there is assimilation in one direction or another. [s_?\adr=] > [s_?\dr=] > [s_?\d_?\r_?\=][sdr=] I believe that the Berbers also use the Arabic article al- as an inseparable prefix. My favorite, however, still is Cypriot Arabic, which matches the oddities of Cypriot Greek almost exactly.