Re: Becoming triconsonantal, was: 'Arabiiya

En réponse à Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>:

[snip long but enlightening explanations]

You've given me a beautiful tool for my Arabo-Romance conlang Vasiliy! Though I
don't want to go as far as a triconsonnantal root system (I want an Arabo-
Romance lang, not a Roman-Arabic one :)) ), it's very interesting for me to
develop the right sound changes that will transform the Latin syllable
structure into a Arabic-like one. Now if I could only find a good resource on
Vulgar Latin on the web (or at least a good resource on Classical Latin
including the length marks - I really need them -. Descending a Romance lang
from Classical Latin may seem artificial, but then look at Sardinian, where a
lot of words come from Classical Latin, not from Vulgar Latin (like I think
iskire - or something like that - for "to know", from CL "scire" instead of
VL "sapere")). And of course, somebody who could explain me what the stress
patterns are in Arabic (take Modern Classical Arabic, not dialects, so that I
can consider that it's not far from the stress pattern of Arabic in the time of
Mahomet or before).

Christophe.

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