Re: isle > ile?

En réponse à Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >One particularity of Narbonósc is that it never had such a prosthesis
> >sound-
> >law: initial s+stop stayed as they are. Thus the words stêre (< stare +
> >esse):
> >to be, spirt /spir/ (< spiritus): spirit, speir /spE/ (< sperem?):
> hope.
>
>
> The same with Montreiano (Gee christophe, are we psychically linked or
> something? Me and a friend in chat call this the "Hive mind" )
>
Must be! Well, it's getting frightening! Where is it gonna stop? :) Well, as
long as it stays confined to conlanging... :)

> star /star/ - to be, spina /spina/ - spine, stáio /sta_jo/ -  stadium,
> stáo /sta_o/- state
>
In Narbonósc:
stêre /stEr/: to be, spine /spin/: spine, stade /stad/: stadium (a late
borrowing from Latin, so it doesn't follow the usual sound changes),
stat /sta/: state.

> By the way, i think i'm going to take out the final r-l rule in
> Montreiano, it was neat at first, but it just isnt sounding right as I
> apply it to more words. However,  i *love* the change of final l - u.
>
Me too! I especially like the result in Narbonósc orthography: a vowel with
circumflex followed by ou. Beautiful!

> However, i am contemplating s changing to /S/ in front of initial stops
> (it sounds logical to me). But as with the final r-l change, i might not
> like it.  I'll have to contemplate it for a while.The above words would
> then maybe  stay written the same, or x could replace them, since it
> represent /S/ in Montreiano:
>
> xtar /Star/, xpina /Spina/, xtáio, /Sta_jo/, xtáo /Sta_o/
>
He he :) . Woudl look quite nice :) .

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> ____________________________
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> Yours truly,
>
> Cesar Javier Jaime Garcia
>


Christophe.

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