From: Christian Thalmann (cinga@gmx.net)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 20:40:49 EST
--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, "habarakhe4"
<theophilus88@h...> wrote:
> I have a similar problem with Porphyrean (Azorean) Fortunatian. The
> majority of settlers had already merged the retroflex plosives and
> alveopalatal affricates,
Good. I'm not fond of retroflexes at all. ;-)
> but now the "iubonex" are lowering the
> vowels in unstressed syllables.
And who would they be? (You've probably mentioned it before,
I'm just terrible with names. ;-)
> 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]!)
You mean you *like* [tT]? ;-)
> Initial consonant clusters are simplifying, although I have yet to
> figure out the precise details.
Sounds good. Though on the other hand, Fortunatian loses some
of its unconditional exoticity with these changes. Is this
development only a slang or a global movement of the Fortunatian language?
-- Christian Thalmann
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