Re: Azurian phonology

On Oct 17, 2008, at 8:46 PM, Lars Finsen wrote:

> The Azurian phonology is tentative still, but I think I have
> brought it up to something that can be used in the relay. A
> reasonably comprehensive overview is here: http://www.ortygia.no/
> uriania/azuriansk-gmp-eng.html
>
> My plan has been to make a synthesis of Faroese and western
> Norwegian, with an emphasis of Faroese for the phonology and on
> Norwegian for the grammar. The idea is to work out what I think
> Faroese would have developed into if it had existed on a biggish
> country in continuous contact with mainland Scandinavia. [...]
It's very interesting. Is there a precedent in Norwegian or Faeroese
for [k:v] or [t_S] to appear to break hiatus?

Note: you wrote "Elsewhere, the result is [tt_S]", and also that the
two kinds of insertion "both [consist] of a long stop followed either
by [v] or by affrication", but the actual examples using the
affricate show just [t_S], not [t_S:] or [tt_S].

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