Re: Numbers in my con romance lang

En réponse à Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >
> >What strikes me is the orthographic resemblance between some of the
> >numbers
> >(even if their actual pronunciation is a little different):
> >- çinque and cinque,
> >- seix and seix,
> >- veint and veint.
>
> This is a very cool resemblence. I used spanish somewhat as a model,
> looking at the Latin roots for the numbers. Sound rules apply. Seix
> /sejS/, is the way it looks and sounds is because to me it sounds better
> than /seS/ (my aesthetic sensibilities working their way in :).
> >
I also happen to look at Spanish, because it's the only other Romance language
(besides French :) ) for which I have a grammar book. It helps me look at what
can happen (I also use my little memory of Italian for that) but helps me more
to do something different :) . I don't want the language to look too much like
French or Spanish :) , but I also don't want it to be that different (I already
have Reman for that :) ). I'm trying to keep a balance...

> >Moreover, even if in "Roumant" a consonnant as last letter of a word is
> >normally
> >not pronounced, it is pronounced when the following word begins with a
> >vowel
> >(same phenomenon of liaison as in French), and then 'x' is pronounced
> >/S/, as in
> >your language!
>
> I thought it would help the language to be a bit different if I added in
> the dropping of final e in certain circumstances (inspired by the fact
> one
> of my books says it was very unstable in Old Spanish). Of course, in
> mine,
> the final consonants are always pronounced.  I was inspired to use x for
> /S/ since in Old Spanish at least, that letter was used for the /S/
> sound,
> IIRC (is that why "Mexico" /meSiko/ is spelled with an x?)
> >
I thought one said /'mexiko/? As for my use of x for /S/, I got the idea from
Portuguese (from which I have a very little knowledge, which is still quite
handy :) ).