Request for help, Spanish
From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
Date: | Sunday, October 10, 1999, 5:01 |
I'm currently working on Lun=EA (<Lun=E9s < Luna + -=E9s), the official
language of the Pan-Human Republic. It is descended from a
Spanish-lexified creole, with substrate influence from English and
Esperanto (a language spoken in a number of Lunar colonies), and
probably other languages. Now, the questions I have are these:
What is the distribution of the allophones [a] and [A] in Spanish? And
do all dialects have those allophones?
What are the pronunciations of {ll} and {y} in different dialects?=20
Particularly in Mexican dialects.
One sound change involves the loss of intervocalic voiced stops. Now,
in words like "ciudad", this would produce [sju'a] (I think, or is it
[sju'A]?). What should I do with those kinds of words? Ordinarily,
unstressed high vowels become glides when prevocalic, but *[sjwa] would
be impossible. Would it be reasonable for that to become a rounded
glide, that is [s;ha]? Or would it be reasonable for an epenthetic [w]
to be added, creating [sju'wa]? Or should I just leave it at [sju'a]?=20
Or, might the [j] be vocalized, creating [si'wa]?
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