Re: Revised Verb paradigm!

On Tuesday, October 30, 2001, at 01:53 , Padraic Brown wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 11:38 , Padraic Brown wrote:
>>
>> langs) but your paradigms are quite lovely; this is one conlang I'd
>> definitely like to hear spoken.
>
> If I can get the accent down, I might try recording it.
>
Let us know if/when you do!  :-)

>>> ii. Past simp. (perf.)
>>>
>>> parlasi         parlason
>>> parlaste        parlasaz        iiA. Past
>>> parlasot        pharlasont
>>
>> I noticed in a number of places <p> varied to <ph>.  What sound is <ph>
>> and what instigates the variance (mostly, it seems, in the 3rd person
>> plural)?  (I apologize, I realize I've missed a lot of your earlier posts
>> on Kerno.)
>
> It's [f]. This is aspiration, a typical British mutation. 3rd singular
> used to have a feminine form, called softening: barlasot, e.g. Not
> frequently heard anymore; though still quite alive in Brithenig.
> Aspiration also happens in plural nouns: il cats / y chat /Il kat(s)/ -
> /i xat/. The third mutation is nasalisation, which you get (usually)
> after prepositions and articles that end in -n and also in the oblique
> case: il cats / le gatte /Il kat(s)/ - /lE~ gat/.
Oh, I see!  :-)  This makes a lot more sense when you explain, and when
others on this list have explained it, than when I tried to look it up in
a book on Irish.  <wry g>  OC I didn't know any phonetics/phonology at the
time, which might've been part of the problem.  Thanks for the
clarification.  :-)

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