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

Quoting Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...>:

> 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?
Perhaps as an Essentialist Explanation, but I doubt it
seriously. :( One could also claim that Proto-Germanic
lenition was a substrate, then, and what end would there
be?

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