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

 --- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote: >
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
> >
> > >
> > > IIRC the argument is that French (and
> Gallo-Romance varieties of
> > > Italian) acquired front rounded vowels from the
> Celtic substrate.
> > >
> >
> >I thought this was considered an areal feature,
> since it's shared between
> >unrelated languages which happen to be geographical
> neighbours? For
> >instance,
> >if we take front rounded vowels, they are shared
> by:
> >- French,
> >- Gallo-Romance varieties of Italian,
> >- German and Dutch,
> >- Northern varieties of Basque.
>
> Rather than just German and Dutch, you can throw in
> the entire Germanic
> branch - those that don't have 'em, like English and
> Icelandic, used to.
>
do icelandic |ö| (o with dots) and |au| not contain
front roundeds ? i know |y| and |y'| have converged
with |i| and |i'|, but these other two remain, don't
they

as for english, true, except in dialects. birmingham
is [b8mIN@m] in birmingham, and scottish english /u/
often tends towards [y], ( eg [byk] for book )
presumably in line with lowland scots |ui| ( buik )

bn

=====
bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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