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--- Melroch 'Aestan <melroch@hidden.email> wrote: > At 00:36 20.3.2004, Adam Walker wrote: > > >C-a also derives/Z/ from /r_j/ as well as /l_j/. > >There is also /Z/ boroowed from Arabic words. With > so > >many origins /Z/ ends up a rather common sound > which > >suits me fine. > > Well, /Z/ is rather *un*common in Persian, so I > wanted > to keep it that way in R. Same goes for /l/, so > that > most cases that might reasonably become palatalized > in > Romance become /j/. > > Does C-a by any chance have r/l merger? > Actually, r and l have a complex relationship in C-a. Word-final (which only happens in a few functors) r>l>u eg. per > pel > peu. Internally, if there are two occurrences of r in a word the first will become l, also a word with an r occurring before an l will metathsesize. This *can* even occur when the first r is word-initial eg. levrincha < reverentia Usuall one r being a member of a cluster (in the Latin) will block these processes. Adam ===== Indjindrud edjuebu ul Josias ad ul Jeconias ed ils sus frarris in il deporrachuni in al Baviluña, ed debostu il deporrachuni in al Baviluña, indjindrud ul Jeconias ad ul Salatil. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Salatiel ad ul Zorubaviu. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Zorobaviu ad ul Abiud. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Abiud ad ul Eliacim. Indjindrud edjuebu ul Eliacim ad ul Azor. Machu 1:11-13