Re: "real" names in Chevraqis

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> > Christophe Grandsire = Kristov Qranusir
>
> Why <Q>?
q is Chevraqis is glottal between vowels, something like a weak /n/
otherwise, and from what little I remember of French, when you say
"grand" the French r sort of drowns out the g.  Other best guess would've
been h, I suppose.

> > Nicole Perrin = Nikor (or Nikol) Berin
>
> No /p/?  Interesting.  An Arabic influence, by any chance?
<blank look>  Unfortunately I have no clue about Arabic phonology, I've
just seen the morphology described.  :-(

/p/ is allophonic with /b/ but occurs only in word-final position.
Elsewhere Chevraqis "b" is /b/.

The phonology of Chevraqis is probably really ugly to those in the know,
but I couldn't bear to change certain parts of it.  :-/

YHL