Re: A dialogue in Old Urianian.

Hallo!

On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:14:58 +0100, Lars Finsen wrote:

> The language was much closer to proto-IE than today, but I am
> postulating some changes due to a non-Gaajan substrate, possibly
> Uralic. To my best current knowledge these are as follows:
> 1)The short diphthongs /ei/ and /oi/ become /e/, and /eu/ and /ou/
> become /o/.
Does this mean that there are /e/~/i/ and /o/~/u/ ablauts in OU?

>       This also helps simplifying the verbal system. In the
> longer corresponding diphthongs the second element is treated as a
> semivowel in many environments, causing the first element to shorten
> before consonants.
> 2)In compositions following the -VC-o-C- pattern, where -o- is any
> composition vowel, the composition vowel is ellipsed.
> 3)Stress is shifted to initial syllables. Final short vowels are
> dropped or reduced. Final long vowels become short. Short vowels in
> the first syllable become long before single consonants.
> 4)Final /m/ becomes /n/. An old change, so that an /m/ becoming final
> after 3) is not affected.
> 5)All unaspirated stops are aspirated.
Do PIE *d etc. merge with *dh etc.?

> 6)/bh/ becomes /B/, written _v_, /dh/ becomes /D/, written _z_, and /
> gh/ becomes /G/, written _h_.
> 7)Unaspirated labiovelars become unaspirated stops, and will round a
> following vowel. Thus /gw/ becomes /g/, written _q_, and /kw/
> becomes /k/, written _c_. /gwh/ on the other hand becomes /w/,
> written _w_, and will not round a following vowel.
I assume that this happened before 5).  It would be nice to list the
sound changes in chronological order.

> 8)Initial /s/ is lost before double consonants. Internal s is lost
> before consonants, causing preceding short vowels to lengthen.
> 9)Prepositions and some conjuctions and connective pronouns are
> already lost.
Looks good so far.  Only that I got the impression that you did not
list the sound changes in order of occurence, which is misleading.

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