Re: CONLANG Digest - 17 Nov 2003 to 18 Nov 2003 (#2003-325)

--- Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...> wrote:
> --- Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...>
> wrote:
>
> > But none of that's borrowed! [w] > gw is
> > typical
> > of Northern and Western Romance;
Carrajena had the [w] > gw rule too.  But it went
dormant early on (before the Arab invasions).  Also kw
and gw > p/f and b/v with the stop appearing before a,
o and u and f/v before e and i.

But as I said these rules did ther bit and went
inactive about the time of the Arab invasions so most
Arabic loans have w > v eg. varra not barra for

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Fached il prori ul pañeveju mutu chu djul atexindu.
-- Carrajena proverb