Re: ConLand names in translation
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 2, 2000, 12:44 |
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At 01:56 02.4.2000 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>Normally [tS], [dZ] only occur before front vowels in Brithenig,
>and are written c, g. But when final, the orthography is c', g',
>reflecting the now-omitted vowel (as in ffelig' < FELICI-).
Yech! _-gc_ and _-cg_ à la Old English _cg_ [dZ] would have been much more
appealing to my aesthetics!
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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