Re: Dalmation/Vegliot sound changes (vowels)

On 20/03/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> A member of (Spanish) Ideolengua has posted a file on this topic--
>
> http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/ideolengua/files/Vegliot%20Sound%20Changes.doc
>
> (all one line of course)-- one may have to be a member to view it, but it's
> interesting (though possibly from some other on-line source).
>
> Would you believe a > u ??
Well, English (ME > AusE) has had U > a (via [V], [6] i.e. bUt>bVt>bat
"but"), so yes, I would :)

Very little surprises me in terms of vowel sound changes

Actually, I wrote that at uni before I had a chance to log in & get
the document at home. Now I'm home, and I've had a chance to read
them, it does seem as if it's ... a little adventurous, the whole
thing. Definitely an anadew to remember.

--
Tristan