From: yitzik_ua
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 18:05:28 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, draqonfayir@j... wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:51:47 -0000 "habarakhe4
> <theophilus88@h...>" <theophilus88@h...> writes:
> > Steg Belsky,
> > How on earth did you derive emphatic consonants from Latin?
> > Habarakhe/Locutaul [r@kutor]
>
> [...]
>
> /t./ comes from /kt/:
> /maktare/ > [mA:t.A:l]
> /noktis/ > [not.]
>
> /s./ comes from /ks/:
> /eksplo:ra:to:ris/ > [Es.p@lo:rA:so:r]
>
> Or something along those lines.
> The idea is that the rounding in /kw/ and /gw/ turns into a
backing, so
> they become /q/, which when it comes to Semitic emphatics is
generally
> considered the same thing as a /k./. The dental /t./ and /s./ come
from
> the preceding /k/ turning into a co-articulated /?/.
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
Ah, that's a nice idea! I've already got /ts/ < */s./(Ar) & */kj/,
*/tj/(VL) in my Rumiya, but was not sure what to do with -kt-
cluster! May I try to use your */kt/(VL) > /t./ sound change in
Rumiya?
Yitzik
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