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Re: [westasianconlangs] Litnit and Haliffon (was Re: Fate of Latin Begad Kephath)

habarakhe4 wrote:

<<I seem to remember such a development in some African-
based conlang (I thought it was Carrajena), but apparently I am wrong. Maybe
it was one of the Iberian-Arabic blends - Rumiya, maybe. >>

No, it's definitely not Rumiya (now called Ajami and abandoned, hopefully
only for a while). It has several sibilants (/s/, /z/, /S/, /Z/) and the
same set of affricates. Arabic sounds are usually mapped to Ibero-Romance in
the same way Hebrew sounds are pronounced in Ladino + analogy. E.g., /s>/ >
/ts/.

-- Yitzik