Re: Azurian phonology
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 19, 2008, 19:40 |
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Hallo!
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:11:24 +0200, Lars Finsen wrote:
> Den 18. okt. 2008 kl. 19.37 skreiv Benct Philip Jonsson:
> [...]
>
> > OTOH Scots
> > Gaelic has a system entirely analogous to
> > that of Icelandic and Faroese.
>
> That was an important insight. Possibly one of either Gaelic or Norse
> has caused a substrate effect on the other, or there is a common
> substrate. Pictish? Or Old Albic? Or Urianian?
Pictish, possibly, or whatever, maybe indeed Old Albic, sort of.
Most Old Albic dialects (including Classical) aren't like that,
but its northernmost dialect, which also was that of the Elvish
colonies on the Faroes and Iceland, actually has an aspirated/
unaspirated opposition without phonemic voicing (all obstruents
are voiceless, all sonorants are voiced). And in my conworld
at least (which doesn't feature any additional islands) the
Elves probably were the first humans on those islands.
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