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

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From: "Pavel Iosad" <pavel_iosad@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: 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?

mmm...not catchy enough.

Spanish is essentially Latin spoken by a Welshman who's been out in the sun
too much.

That better?

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