Re: Proto-Semitic (was Re: markjjones@HOTMAIL.COM)

Hey!

On Thursday 10 March 2005 16:11 +0100, Rob Haden wrote:

> >Isn't /s/ becoming or has become /S/ in Portuguese?
>
> I believe so, at least when it precedes a stop.  For
> example, I've heard 'estou' "I am" pronounced [StoU].
From what I remember of a paper me and a friend had to do 
about Portugal in 6th grade, the numbers from 1 to 10 are 
similar to the following (Janko Gorenc: In *Portugese*, 
which is NOT a conlang):

/um/, /dOI)S/, /t4ES/, ?, ?, /sEI)S/, ?, ?, ?, ?

There seems to be a shift from /s/ to /S/ at least at the 
end of words. That'd explain why Portugese essentially 
sounds like Russian spoken by a Spanish.

Carsten

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