Re: C (was: Acadon (was: Lingwa de Planeta))

Hi!

R A Brown writes:
>...
> In fact since Sardinian (like Terkunan) did not share in the
> palatalization which afflicted Vulgar Lain elsewhere, it would be more
> logical for Sardinian to retain the old Latin spelling with |c| = /k/ in
> all environments.
>...
You do have a point here.  Quite an obvious one, and I did not give it
enough though I think.  For Sardinian, I suppose current writing is
almost completely based on Italian for obvious reasons.  But Terkunan
is meant to be a major language of a state (with an army) in a
parallel universe so I should come up with a good explanation for
the |k|.  Maybe being the only non-palatalising romlang in that
universe would be enough, but maybe not.

Why does English use 'c' where German uses 'k'?  Say, 'cat'
vs. 'Katze'?  French?

**Henrik

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