Re: A new commitee language
From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
Date: | Monday, March 24, 2003, 23:09 |
From: "Eamon Graham"
> Danny Wier wrote:
> > Since Arabic has no /p/, and IE /p/ was lost in Celtic...
>
> How come I never thought of that?!? You're a genius... that would
> definately be cool...
I just have an obsession with phonetic/phonemic inventories. Seriously,
Arabic script would be GREAT for a Celtic language, only not as good for
Gaelic, unless you want to use the vowel markers to indicate slender and
broad consonants, or some other diacritic.
The phonology of Andalusian-Moroccan Celtiberian, therefore, with lenition
and nasalization:
b > w > m
t > th > d
d > dh > n
k > x > g (written as jeem)
g > gh > ng (written as noon-jeem)
s > h
f > zero > w
m > w
n, l, r > no change
y of course is lost in Celtic, so it exists in loanwords and as a vowel.
The others are loans from Ibero-Romance, Arabic and Tamazight.
I think I covered most of it, but is this too much like Irish?