Re: Numbers in my con romance lang
| From: | Daniel A. Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 15, 2000, 6:45 |
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:30:01 -0700 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Not sure how <z> was pronounced at
> >the time; modern Jérez) gave "sherry"
>
> From "Latin to Romance in Sound Charts" the rule says that CY /kj/,
> and TY
> /tj/ when "alone" (i guess with a vowel before it, or finally), it
> became
> /dz/, written as z. When preceded by a consonant, it became /ts/ .
I believe that the /t/ > /ts/ shift in the syllable /tiV/ does not apply
if you have /s/ before /t/. May be other cases, but that one I do
remember reading from my ol' Wheelock's Latin paperback...
~ Ha ha, made you look! ~
Danny Wier
Lufkin, Texas