Re: NATLANGS: Difthongization across Europa
| From: | Tristan McLeay <conlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 12:52 |
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On 19/02/08 21:48:23, Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> On 18.2.2008 David J. Peterson wrote:
> > The former is happening/happens in my English before nasals:
>
> It's part of sweeping changes taking place in North American
> English. Read the Labov articles I linked and it will all
> become clear. I guess the risk that NAmE splits into
> mutually incomprehensible languages is a baehd thing,
> but the alternative is to kill it!
A bad thing? As a conlanger, surely not! It's just the Real World
conlanging for a change. Europe and India manage to get by just fine
with lots of different languages. Why couldn't North America? The
written language needn't break up right away anyway: Much like the
status of Latin in the early stages of the Romance family/late stages
of Vulgar Latin.
--
Tristan.
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