Re:_Merry_Christmas_in_Aingeljã

From: Christian Thalmann (cinga@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 16:48:34 EST


--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@y...>
wrote:

> > |Aeve mautina caebe veirwen, sed mure segundu
> > suwe caesun.|
> >
> > /"ajv mo"ti:n@ kajb "verv@n se mu:r se"gUnd@
> > su:v "kajz@n/
>
> Do the silent -e do anything in this language? In
> Kerno, they generally mark the oblique case.

Yes, they influence syllabification and thus the
pronunciation of vowels and diphthongs. For instance,
|aeve| is /ajv/ while |aev| would be /Ev/; |mure| is
/mu:r/ while |mur| would be /mUr/.

-- Christian Thalmann



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