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

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Thursday, September 5, 2002, 15:55
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From: "Pavel Iosad" <pavel_iosad@...>
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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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