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Re: Conlang Journal and being a fish

From:Thomas Leigh <thomas@...>
Date:Friday, September 20, 2002, 10:43
Irina wrote:

>> Romanian: >> Sunt un pes,te. >> >> Where {s,} should be s-cedilla (which I can't sent on this terminal). > > And, in modern (post-1960, approximately) Romanian, "sunt" should be > "sînt"; in case the i-circumflex doesn't come through, that's an > i-circumflex, pronounced "barred-i" (close central unrounded).
Actually, "sunt" is correct; the 1993 orthographic reform in Romania replaced "sînt" with "sunt", and also restored the letter "â" (a-circumflex) in many words which had been respelled with "î" (i-circumflex) in the 1953 spelling reform. Here are a few more languages: Breton: Pesk on (or Me a zo pesk; slightly differing emphasis) Volapük: Binob fit Interlingua: Io es un pisce Afrikaans: Ek is 'n vis Frisian (West): Ik bin in fisk Icelandic: Ég er fiskur (e-acute in "ég") Maltese: Jien huta (with barred h) Luxembourgish: Ech sinn e Fësch (e-dieresis in "Fësch")

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Irina Rempt <irina@...>