--- Christophe wrote:
> A speaker of Maggel would consider me a madman or a god probably (only those
> two categories can pronounce Maggel without being part of their nation ;)))
> ).
LOL
> > Okay, you asked for it!
>
> Sounds like a threat ;))) .
Depends...
> > 1 uden/una/unu [udEn], [unA], [unu]
>
> Am I right to say that |uden| comes from Slavic? In which case is it used
> rather than the Romance forms?
Only in the nominative case of the masculine form. And yes, it is the result of
a merger from Lat. un(um) with OSl. *jedin(u).
Wenedyk has no articles, but it could very well be that it had them in the past
and lost them under Slavic influence; in that case uden was introduced in order
to distinguish the numeral from the indefinite article.
Or am I going too far now?
> > 3 trze [tSE]
>
> Funny, the orthography keeps a connection with the Latin origin of the word
> which has disappeared in speech. It does often the same in French :))) .
In Polish /rz/ is normally pronounced [Z]. It appears in those places where
Russian has a slender [r'] and Czech has the retroflex /r^/.
However, at the end of a word or after an unvoiced stop, it is pronounced [S]:
krzak [kSak]
przed [pSet]
trzy [tSI]
So yes, you are actually right.
> > 8 os'ciem [Os_jts_jEm]
>
> Do you manage to pronounce palatalised consonants in front of another
> consonant? That's next to impossible to me :((( . But I manage final
> palatalised ones :)) .
No problem at all. But I think it took me quite some effort fourteen years ago
when I started to learn Polish.
> > 100 czat [tSAt]
>
> Is |czat| also a borrowing from Slavic langs? Or is is regularly derived from
> CENTUM?
The latter:
centum > cze~tu > czat
The word for 100 in the Slavic languages (I think all of them) is |sto|.
> A good impression indeed! Nice work!
Thanks :)
Jan
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