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Re: CHAT: Politeness in conlangs

From:Andrew Smith <hobbit@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 16, 1999, 4:46
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Where'd the /g/ come from? Was /w/ --> /gw/ a normal sound change in > Brithenig? >
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.