Re: CHAT: Politeness in conlangs
| From: | Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 4:46 |
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Where'd the /g/ come from? Was /w/ --> /gw/ a normal sound change in
> Brithenig?
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Where /w/ is initial, yes. It is a feature of sound change that Brithenig
inherited from Welsh.
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And Universal Darkness buries All.
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.