OT: [relay] OT: Rhodrese

Jo hay screut:

>> Chritxá de Val hat screut:
>>>> - ue:  /2/ (/ø/).
>>> So |lengue| is pronounced /'lENg2/?  Surprising...
>> No the _guV_ rule applies here:
>>
>> - gu:  /gw/ before a vowel.
>>
>> Maybe the spelling should be _lenguhe_, but since
>> the plural is _ling_ anyway, perhaps the singular should
>> be _lenghe_ by analogy.
>>
>> /Bendetx
>
> I daresay unstressed final /2/ hardly exists, BTW.
The spelling lenguhe would be /leN'gu@/, so which of
_lénguhe_ and _lengüe_ would be best? The _ü_ would be a new
grapheme, but there would be some other cases where it comes
in useful, like AQUA > _agüe/águhe_.  I find the _-guhe_
spellings ugly, though.

Since the wholly regular reflex of LINGUAE would be _lingo_,
perhaps  the singular should be spelled _lingoe_, although
that would have been ambiguous in Old Rhodrese where oe was
a spelling for /2/ as i-affection of /o/ -- this Old
Rhodrese /2/ later unrounded to /e/, whereafter Old Rhodrese
/H2/ _ue_ monophthongized to a new /2/, the one preserved in
modern Rhodrese.

So perhaps analogical sg. _lenghe_ and pl. _ling_ or even
sg. _lengüe_ and pl. _lingo_? I hereby declare a referendum! :-)

/Bendetx

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