Re: Definite article + posessive pronoun

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>/eumi/ seems a bit long a likely to be reduced.
>Does Montreiano reduce diphthongs in any way,
>maybe /eu/ > /ju/? OTOH you could keep the
>longer forms. Clumsy or not, Italian says
>"il mio" (three syllables!).
Well, in fast speech /ew/ (which is how that ending should be pronounced)
does tend to get reducted to "u"

so "eu arvou" tends to be said more like "/u ar'vo:/"

But, i'm thinking that when the two were combined, the /w/ was lost and
the forms became the third choice i highlighted. Although....with the
above example, it sounds more plausible that it would be /umi/ instead of
/emi/, but i think i like /emi/ more.

I prefer the third choice (emi, etu, esu, etc) also because they dont give
a good hint as to their exact origin from first glance.



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