From: draqonfayir@juno.com
Date: Tue Nov 12 2002 - 04:21:52 EST
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:13:50 -0600 Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@earthlink.com>
writes:
> draqonfayir@juno.com wrote:
> > "skalerika de oro, del oro i del marfil;
> So, Ladino permits initial s-stop sequences? How did it come about
> that they used {k} instead of {c}?
-
Yup, although sometimes i get the impression that an /e/ at the beginning
is optional. And they use {k} because Ladino was originally written in
the Hebrew alphabet, and when they decided recently to write it in Latin
letters that they would write it phonetically in a way that would
distinguish it from Spanish.
So they don't use {c}, or {qu}, and they only use {g} for /g/. Also,
they use {j} for /Z/ and {dj} for /dZ/.
> > ke gozen i logren i tengan muncho bien.
> Is "muncho" correct there?
-
Yup! "Muncho" is also found as a non-standard variant in some Spanish
dialects. In Ladino it's the standard form.
-Stephen (Steg)
"'cause monkeys don't have shotguns,
and gorillas don't make war;
if you gave an ape a crack pipe
he wouldn't know quite what it's for;
and maybe we're the ones who need to be locked in the zoo,
'cause it seems to me the chimpanzees
are just one step ahead of me and you."
~ 'guns and monkeys' by jason spitz
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.7 : Fri Oct 03 2003 - 12:19:45 EST