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--- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, "Isaac Penzev" <isaacp@u...> wrote: > 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/. Well then. Maybe it never existed outside my own head. A lot of interesting languages and people don't. Of course, a Latin orthogaphy with one sibilant need not indicate there is only one sibilant in the actual non-Latinate language. > > -- Yitzik