From: habarakhe4 (theophilus88@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 14:14:11 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, "Christian Thalmann"
<cinga@g...> wrote:
> (Crossposting from Conlang)
>
> Don't all languages eventually reach an age where they
> begin to develop all sorts of lazy quirks, seemingly
> intent on doing everything but what their wise parents
> have planned for them? ;-)
>
<snip>
> -- Christian Thalmann
I have a similar problem with Porphyrean (Azorean) Fortunatian. The
majority of settlers had already merged the retroflex plosives and
alveopalatal affricates, but now the "iubonex" are lowering the
vowels in unstressed syllables.
Thus:
[i] > [e]
[u] > [o]
[1] > [@]
[e] > [E]
[o] > [O]
[@] > [A]
Other changes include fronting of [s] to [T] and [S] to [s],
including affricates.
[fat.] > [fat_S] > [fat_s]
[tsrat] > [tTrat] (whee! I have [tT]!)
Initial consonant clusters are simplifying, although I have yet to
figure out the precise details.
But then, a language which does not evolve is dead.
Tour [t@wr]
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