From: Barry Garcia (barry_garcia@csumb.edu)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 04:17:35 EST
romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com writes:
>I like this "eu". What are the other articles in Montreiano? And the
>personal
>pronouns?
Well they follow Spanish closely :)
eu - the
los - the (pl)
un - a/an
unos - a/an (pl)
la - the
las - the (pl)
una - a/an
unas - a/an
eu came about due to a sound change where all final l's became /w/, and
often to /u/
However, this change happened before the loss of final e which had
actually headed towards /@/ (reflecting the much earlier loss of final e
with verb infinitives and other words), after the l > /w/-/u/ change
happened, /@/ was finally lost. This caused words ending in lle /l_j/ to
convert to /l/:
calle > cal - street
valle > val - valley
This l > w-u change then happened a second time after the previous two,
causing internal ll clusters to change to > /wj/.
It's complicated but it's all what makes montreiano so dern purty :).
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