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

French.  The usual suspect when you ask "why is English more
romlangish than germanicish in instance X?" :)

On 8/6/07, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> 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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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>

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