Re: Asian Number Systems (was Re: FYI re: Greenberg's Universals)

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>AIUI, that's a pretty common alternation in Spanish.  There really
>should be a reform to abolish <v>, and use <b> for all occurrences, or
>vice versa, but <b> seems better than <v>, since <v> looks rather
>similar to <u>, especially in handwriting.  For Castilian Spanish, that
>one change would make it completely consistent in both directions,
>written -> spoken and spoken -> written.
As one of the sound changes in the Con Romance lang i'm working on,
intervocalic b and v change to u orthografically (and I think in another
position, but i'd need to check my notes and i'm too lazy right now...),
which becomes a /w/ sound:

- VIVERE > vivir > viuir = /viwir/
- CABALLU > cavallo > cauayo = /cauwajo/  (in the orthography, to make it
look different, i've decided all /j/ sounds are represented by 'y'. But
perhaps it might be smarter to keep the orthography closer to the original
latin orthography if I can?)
- CAPUT > cabo > cáuo

Note: yes, i'm aware that in Old Latin (IIRC), v was pronounced as /w/.