From: Barry Garcia (barry_garcia@csumb.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2001 - 02:45:04 EST
romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com writes:
>I've encountered some trouble with Medolian. I just can't decide what to
>do with the Vulgar Latin cluster -mn-. First thought was excrescence,
>along the lines of Spanish: *homne > ômbre > oambre /'wambr@/. However,
>"feambra" /'fjambra/ doesn't sound like a good word for "woman".
>
>We get to the Crunch:
>How do other (con-)romancelangs deal with this cluster? Spanish does
>excrescence, French assimilates, Italian does nothing (laziness...), so
>what does everyone else do?
I recently settled on what Montreiano does. What happened is:
mn > nn > nr > ndr
I did it this way because i didnt really want to do it like Spanish did,
and [ndr] sounded like a possible and reasonable sound change.
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