Re: CHAT: Is there a conlang inspired in Old English?

Hello,

> That leads me to the question: what does the group think of the
> theory that the insular Celtic languages borrowed mutation from a
> substrate language (Pictish, for example)?
Looks implausible to me. Anyway, I've been thinking that one can find
proof that the fortes/lenes behaviour leading to mutations in Celtic in
the disturbingly similar behaviour of intervocalic consonants in Spanish
and Welsh. Could Spanish be essentially Vulgar Latin with a Celtiberian
substrate?

Pavel
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