Re: yet another romance conlang

At 18:29 08/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
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>>         Interesting, it means that your 't' and 'd' are alveolar? I
>> did the same
>> for my new conlang (whose sketch I will show you soon :) ). I like
>> it. I
>> didn't know about the "beged-kefet" rules, and I find this kind of
>> mutations very interesting (you will see in my new lang sketch that
>> I did something like that too :) ).
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>What's unusual about making /t/ and /d/ alveolar?
>
        Nothing. The interesting thing is that you make it "explicitely" alveolar,
like I did to my new conlang. Does anyone have a language where t and d are
explicitely post-alveolar?

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>>         I don't understand very well. Can you explain a little more,
>> I'm lost here.
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>In Hebrew, there are what are called _imot qeri'a_ (matres lectionis,
>"mothers of reading"), consonants which are used to mark where vowels
>are.  In "full writing", _yud_ is used for hhiriq-malei, and _vav_ is
>used for shuruq and hholam-malei.  In "defective writing", where no
>vowels are marked, _yud_ is also used for hhiriq-hhaseir, and _vav_ is
>used also for qubutz, and hholam-hhaseir.
>Word-final qamatz, segol, tzeireh, and hholam-hhaseir in Hebrew are
>marked with a _hei_.
>In Aramaic, however, (which was the vernacular in Judea after Biblical
>times) word-final qamatz (which is very common) is marked with an _alef_.
>
        Interesting. Hebrew has really a strange script, compared to what I know :) .

>> >Conservation of the passive conjugations...
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>>         I did that too in Reman. They are so fun, I wonder why they
>> disappeared in all the natural Romance languages...
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>I'm not sure, but the reason i kept them in Ju:dajca is because i assumed
>that people who speak a Semitic language...well, Semitic language*s*,
>would have no reason for abandoning a feature which would be so obvious
>and indispensable for them.
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        What's funny about that is that I say that Reman has had such an evolution
that it looks a little like Semitic languages :) .

>
>-Stephen (Steg)
> "survival is insufficient."
>
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