Padraic wrote:
> The Irish article and your Rinya article, for some inexplicable =
reason,
> happen to look alike; and happen to affect other words similarly.
Hmm... this is very strange and coincidental. I might have seen the =
article
somewhere and it stuck in my brain, I don't know. Also see my reply to
Mathias' post. I have no knowledge at all about Celtlangs.
> > I have no conculture to go with it,
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> What is it you have in mind?
Nothing. I don't want any conculture at all. Rinya is only my own =
language.
No more, no less.
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> Softening causes a voicing of the consonant, though I'm not quite sure =
of
> the mechanism:
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> tonton -> donton
This is probably what I'm looking for.
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> Nasalisation, as you know, is caused by the loss of a nasal that =
affects
> the following word, leaving a consonant with a nasal quality:
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> in tonton -> in donton -> i ndonton
This consonant with a nasal quality, nd, is it pronounced [Indonton]
or are the n and the d drawn together like e.g. "mb" in African langs, =
"mbengo"?
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> Corrections welcome.
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> Padraic.
Daniel