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Re: Whatever happened to Cosseran?

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Monday, November 13, 2000, 20:21
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Why not? [Nn] simply represents assimilation, /g/ acquiring the >nasality of /n/, and Latin had no other way of rendering [N].
Well, from the *orthography* (i.e. outward appearances: at-first-glance-without-studying-a-damn-thing-about-the-pronunciation :)), it looks like gn should be /g/ and /n/ (i understand the phonological process :)) __________________________________ L E A Ñ I O N Ò U O, U N A E Á N Ò U A