From: habarakhe4
Date: Sat Dec 14 2002 - 14:18:06 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4
<theophilus88@h...>" <theophilus88@h...> wrote:
> [t.] represents retroflex t.
> Where's the fun in making familiar Romance languages?
> [fso] is from Latin accusative plural /ipsos/ minus the plural
> marker /s/. You might have noticed that most of the words in fat.
d@
> noS have no end-vowel. That's because the accusative singular forms
> -am, -um, and -em elided in front of vowels; then they were dropped
> in front of consonants. -a:s, -o:s, and -e:s became aS, oS, eS, so
> you just have to know which vowel is used in the plural form of the
> word.
>
> One of my goals with Fortunatian is to mimic to a certain extent
> Berber phonology; therefore p > f. Fortunatian is tolerant of
> clusters and sounds even stranger because it has many Etruscan
roots
> in it, such as:
> spura 'city' > Spu:ra > pSu:ra > fSur, fSuraS (f.)
> The original consonants were:
> p b m f
>
> t d n l r
>
> ts dz s
>
> S j
>
> k g
>
> kw gw
>
> h
>
> [ts] is from Etruscan /z/
> [dz] is from an archaizing pronunciation of Greek /z/
[S] came from various Etruscan words. Subsequently, [S] became the
allophone of /s/ word-initially, word-finally, and before a
consonant. Various Berberisms and Hebraisms (since Fortunatian can
distinguish between the Hebrew letters samekh [s] and shin [S]) may
have disturbed this equilibrium.
Classical Latin /v/ had already merged with /b/ in the Canaries when
Fortunatian emerged.
Consonant Changes
p>f
f>w
rn>n.
rt, tr > t.
rd, dr > d.
kw>p
gw>b
j>0
g>d_Z
THEN
l>r
sC, SC > Cs, CS (where C= consonant)
Vowel reduction
Loss of unstressed syllables
>
> The vowel development is:
> 1.
> ai>e:
> oi>e:
> au>o:
> 2.
> a:>a
> e>@
> o>@
> i>y
> u>y
> e:>e
> o:>o
> i:>i
> u:>u
These changes apply to both accented and unaccented syllables.
> --- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown
<elemtilas@y...>
> wrote:
> > --- "Christian Thalmann <cinga@g...>"
> > <cinga@g...> wrote:
> > > What is |fso| derived from? It certainly
> > > doesn't appear to be |ille|.
> >
> > ipso.
> >
> > Maybe?
> >
> > =====
> > fas peryn omen c' yng ach h-yst yn caleor peryn ndia;
> > enffoge yn omen ach h-yst yn caleor per la gouitha.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > .
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