From: andrew (hobbit@griffler.co.nz)
Date: Sat Sep 08 2001 - 09:14:32 EST
Am 09/07 13:17 Dan Jones yscrifef:
> 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?
>
In Brithenig the [m] is treated as intervocalic and softened to /v/. In
the standard language this becomes /w/ and is treated as a business end
of a diphthong. If the vowel before the [m] is a back vowel (u, o) it
accents it as long with a circumflex and the -w disappears completely.
- andrew.
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