Re: Back to conlanging
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 20, 2006, 7:28 |
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Paul Bennett skrev:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:28:34 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> wrote:
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>> So, what natlangs do this? What is it called, if not "consonant
>> harmony"?
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>
> It is, indeed.
>
> Natlangily, IIRC it's found in the Americas, and in even more extreme
> cases than mere nasal assimilation.
Basque has sibilant harmony. Sibilants or affricates
within the same word must be all apical _(t)s_, all
laminal _(t)z_ or all palatal _(t)x_. Thus Spanish
_Francés_ is borrowed as _Frantses_ rather than
**Frantzes.
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/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch at melroch dot se
"Maybe" is a strange word. When mum or dad says it
it means "yes", but when my big brothers say it it
means "no"!
(Philip Jonsson jr, age 7)
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