Re: Guarda (jara: Taxonomic list)

Hi!

Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> writes:
>  --- Adam Walker skrzypszy:
...
> > Didn't Romanian do that?  Preserve
> > an archaic spelling of the name of the language when
> > it should have been changed by a spelling reform?
Yes, as far as I know, all words with a-circum were to be written with
i-circum due to their equal pronunciacion [1], but the rulers did not
like Romi^na~ as a name, so the exception of Roma^na~ was kept (maybe
others?).  Now, they seem to re-introduce more a-circums but people
unfortunately forgot where there were before the reform. :-)

> Well, at least Wenedyk does that. Besides, the name of the language violates
> several of its phonological rules. Actually, it should have been Wniedzik
> (yak!) or perhaps Wien'dzik. No, I definitely like Wenedyk better, so let's
> attribute that strange inconsistency to foreign influence.
Hmm!  I like Wniedzik a lot! :-)

It Wenedyk also Wenedyk in Wenedyk or only the English word for Wniedzik?

**Henrik

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