Re: Dacán -- a new romance lang.

Elliott Lash wrote:
>
>     I am introducing in this post a new Romance language, called Dacán
> /DatS'a"n/  that I was  inspired to do after reading several of the posts
> that are going these days on the list. The only thing that I can say firmly
> about it's history
> is that it is spoken somewhere near where modern Romanian is spoken,
> though perhaps a bit more to the east.
>     It is very Slavic influenced (not only in phonology, but also in
> vocabulary).
> I am going to start off a little oddly since I haven't worked out all the
> kinks in
> the phonological systems. I present here the number system as it stands. I'm
> hoping any one out there with knowledge of  the Slavic Number System (if that
> indeed is a term), can help me out with them. General comments are also very
> much welcome.
>
> unz   una             /wU:nz/   /wU:n@/
> dou  due              /dOU/       /dU:E/
> tris   trá               /tr'Is/    /tr'{/

> padur                  /padU"r/
> cimbe                  /tS'ImbE/
These two numbers strike me as having an opposite development of what
they should.

CL quattuor & quinque

Assuming your ultimate sound change (kw -> tS), we get:

/tSadUr/ & /tSImbE/

But you want some slavic influence. Russian (& general Slavic, as far as
I know) for 5 is /pjat/. It strikes me that these two numbers would
evolve opposite of what you have above, being:

cadur                   /tSadU"r/
pimbe                   /pImbE/

In case you don't already have it, here's the Russian numbers up to 20:

odin                    /@din/
dva                     /dva/
tri                     /t4i/
ch'tiri         /tS@'ti"4i"/
pyat'                   /pjat/
shest'          /Sest/
syem'                   /sjEm/
vosyem'         /'vosjEm/
dyevat'         /'djEv@t/
dyesat'         /'djEs@t/
odinadsat'              /@'din@dts@t/
dvenadsat'              /dvjE'nadts@t/
trinadsat'              /t4i'nadts@t/
ch'tirnadsat'   /tS@'ti4n@dts@t/
pyetnadsat'     /pj@t'nadts@t/
shestnadsat'    /Sest'nadts@t/
syemnadsat'     /sjEm'nadts@t/
vosyemnadsat'   /'vosjEmnadts@t/
dyevatnadsat'   /dvjE'nadts@t/
dvatsat'                /dvats@t/

Hope this helps!

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