From: Dan Jones (dan@feuchard.fsnet.co.uk)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 03:24:08 EST
Adam Walker escreva:
>So, I thought I might do the same thing with CL and thus set up a chain of
>changes. GL, BL, V'L could follow a similar chain
>
>GL > /bl/
>BL > /vl/
>VL > /Z/ Though I'm not sure I like that. VL looks awfully Slavic. But
>then, Romanian has it. Thinking . . .
FWIW, how about medially vC becomes uC, e.g. numer'a:bilis -> VL nomr'ablis
(with deletion of intertonic vowels and lowering of atonic /u/) ->
nomr'auli? Initially BL (which is a rare initial cluster in Latin anyway)
might become bl > vl > vw or bl > vl > l?
> >I'm also a bit conflicted on these. Originally in Montreiano I had them
> >change to:
> >
> >CL>/gj/ - OCULUS > OCLUS > oquio > oguio
> >PL>/bj/ - PLENA > piena > biena
> >FL>/vj/ - FLOREM > fiore > vior
> >
> >But i'm not quite sure if i'm too happy with it (let's just say i'm mostly
> >settled). The changes seem logical to me though.
> >
>
>I like it. It seems logical to me.
It seems that in some varieties of Romance post-consonantal /l/ became
/l_j/, e.g. PLENU /pleno/ > /pl_jeno/. In Spanish the initial consonant was
assimilated to the second element, giving lleno /l_jeno/ and in Italian the
/l_j/ became the glide /j/, giving pieno /pjeno/
Dan
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