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Re: Re : mutation and rinya

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Friday, August 6, 1999, 23:19
On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Daniel Andreasson wrote:

> Mathias a =E9crit:
>=20 > > because it looks like that famous britton article flue >=20 > Ahem... what?
The Irish article and your Rinya article, for some inexplicable reason, happen to look alike; and happen to affect other words similarly.
>=20 > Ehh, you tell me. I have no conculture to go with it, and I > don't know but... hmm... an Indonesian-influenced culture > isn't exactly what I had in mind, but after seeing this...
What is it you have in mind? Rinya so far seems to be following Celtic mutations rather closely. The mutations you mentioned in your original post (lenition, softening and nasalisation) are all found in natural languages, as well as a couple of conlangs. Lenition is caused by the aspiration of some word that affects the sounds of the word following, causing the aspiration of that words first consonant: nes tonton -> neh thonton -> ne thonton Softening causes a voicing of the consonant, though I'm not quite sure of the mechanism: tonton -> donton Nasalisation, as you know, is caused by the loss of a nasal that affects the following word, leaving a consonant with a nasal quality: in tonton -> in donton -> i ndonton Corrections welcome. Padraic.
>=20 > > mathias >=20 > Daniel Andreasson > [dA:njEl andr'e:a,sOn] > (comma (,) is secondary stress in my surname. My first name > has a stress which is called 'grave accent'. You know, Swedish > is a tonal language, hard to explain. Try to stress both the A and > the E of Daniel equally and you come pretty close.) >=20