Re: proto-romance questions

At 21:54 -0600 15.12.1999, J. Barefoot wrote:
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>No, I meant "m".
>
>As in dormi:'re > dormie'ra >(?) /dorm~e'ra/
Ah, but that doesn't count as a single palatalized phoneme, but as /m+j/.
You may of course have distinctive palatalization for all consonants in
*your* Rmc lang, if you want to! :-)  My con-Rmc lang Akhelin has, because
Rumanian has.  Not quite consistent, since Rumanian palatalization probably
is an areal influence from Slavic, and my lang i supposed to be
Persian-influenced.  Akhelin does however have an *E > /ja/ change, so I
thought that would make distinctive palatalization likely to arise.  The
French-inspired Romanization of Akhelin mostly indicates palatalization of
a consonant by using different graphemes for the following vowel:

PHONEME        CV    CjV

/i/ < i:       --    i
/e/ < i, e:    --    /e
/@/ < a, e, o  e     \e [&]
/u/ < u:       ou    you
/o/ < u, o:    o     u [y]
/a/ < a:       a     ya

The Arabic-based orthography of Akhelin has a dotless Ye for /i/, a dotless
Ye with Hamze for /e/ and [&], an optional Hamze or nothing for /@/ and
/o/, Waw for /u/ and Alif for /a/.


/BP

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