Re: Montreiano Orthography

> Letters marked with asterisks arent generally used in Montreiano,
> but are found in loans (I cant think of a use for j, but maybe one
> of y'all can help me think of one) .
Try figuring out how latin words originally written with i/j evolved
or how borrowings from French or Spanish had been included.

In most (all?) Estern European languages I know, <j> is used the same
way than <g> before front vowels... if used:  /x/ or /h/ in Spanish
(according to dialect), /Z/ in French, /dZ/ in English, /j/ in
Swedish... unless the language has gotten a regularizing orthographic
reform this pattern should be preserved.

Anyhow, the series of events that produced <j>=/h/ in many dialects of
American Spanish are unlikely to had happened in Montreiano, unless
Montreiano is a desendant of some old Spanish instead of (Vulgar)
Latin itself.

My reconstruction:
  <i> turned <j> when consonantic.
  /j/ > (/dZ/ >) /Z/ > /S/ > /x/ > /h/
while <g> before front vowels got palatized:
  /g/ > /gj/ > /dZ/ > /Z/ > /S/ > /x/ > /h/

At some point, <g> and <j> had the same value in Vulgar Latin and
evolved togetter in Western European Languages.

-- Carlos Th