Re: OT: Azurian.

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 16:50:54 -0400, John Vertical
<johnvertical@...> wrote:

>>I haven't progressed much with Azurian lately. I am still struggling
>>with the phonology and sound laws. The trouble is that I don't have
>>much evidence to go by, since most of the names I have is stolen from
>>Norwegian phonebooks or similar, with an emphasis on the western
>>ones. But I do have some place names. And some of them give a clue or
>>two.
>>
>>For example, Sauga seems to imply that final /D/ is retained, unlike
>>most of mainland Norway, and subject to change, at least when
>>followed by a vowel morpheme. Hmm, if /D/ turns to /g/, if that's
>>what the g stands for, what then happens to the original /g/?
>
>>LEF
>
>Was it Irish that had a change of D > G? I don't remember offhand what or
>where Azurian was supposed to be, but it might be relevant.
>
>John Vertical
IIRC West Munster Irish changes D to G.

Jeff

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