Re: Whatever happened to Cosseran?

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Looks cool :) (And you came up with other m'n words I couldn't think of!)
>It's thought that <gn> in Latin was actually /Nn/, and that later became
>/JJ/. /nn/ > /Nn/ seems a bit odd to me, but it's just dissimilation, not
>too strange in the grand scheme of things.
Yes, my reason was dissimilation. Also, it's a way to distinguish the
language from the other Romance langs. Interesting that <gn> was /Nn/,
would never have guessed from the orthography.


> FWIW, I've thought about using
>/mn/ > /nn/ and then maybe > /JJ/, but I'm really not sure what to do.
>Maybe
>different dialects can have different ways of dealing with /mn/. I just
>know
>that I dislike the /mbr/ approach of Spanish :)

I never really liked the /mbr/ approach of Spanish either, which is why I
wanted a different way to do it. I like my system, i think it's original.
Plus, it keeps my friends who speak Spanish guessing :).



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