Re: Vowels in Finlaesk

On 9/5/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote:
> Paul Bennett skrev:
>
>  >> Note that fC probably > wC too, unless fC > hC. Certainly
>  >> pp tt kk would > hp ht hk, and Gt kt > ht. (Icelandic
>  >> actually distinguishes tt > ht from kt/Gt > xt!)
>  >
>  > Long stops are allowable (it seems) in at least some of
>  > the local languages (and indeed Inuktitut goes to some
>  > trouble to create them, AIUI), and I'm tempted to take my
>  > cue from those rather than from "mainland" Norse
>  > languages.
>
> Since Alg. lacks a phonemic voicing contrast in stops I'd
> expect something akin to Icelandic:
>
> - _t_ = /t_h/
> - _tt_ = /ht/
> - _d_ = /t/
> - _dd_ = /tt/
I have the following:

- _t_ = /s/
- _tt_ = /ht/
- _d_ = /t/
- _dd_ = /?t/
- _k_ = /x/
- _kk_ = /hk/ (thanks to some other rules)
- _g_ = /k/
- _gg_ = /?k/
- _p_ = /f/
- _pp_ = /hp/
- _b_ = /p/
- _bb_ = /?p/
- _h_ = /s/ before stops
- _s_ = /S/ before velars

Does this seem like a plausible variant/outcome of an Icelandic-like
process under Alg (and Inuktitut) influence?



Paul