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Re: Romlang problem in Terkunan

From:Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
Date:Wednesday, August 8, 2007, 3:30
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 17:45:33 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

>Hello! > >A small problem arose concerning the sound shifts of Terkunan: I don't >like the sound of -/ls/ at the end of words but it frequently occurs >due to a regularised plural ending -/s/. Since the pronouns are >regular, too, I constantly see |ilz| /ils/ 'they'. > >Any idea what to do about this? Terkunan is meant to be a typical >romlang, but there is no trace of an l > u shift and I don't want one, >because I don't like the diphthongs that will arise from that. There >are quite frequent r <> l switches, however, but currently, the >language tends towards -l at ends of words (e.g. arbul 'tree'). For >polysyllabic words, anyway. I thought about having -l > -r in >monosyllabics and switching the overall tendencies for l/r. It would >affect a lot of things: > >(Current words are given in parens:) > > ILLE > (il) ir 'he,she,it' => irz 'they' > CAELUM > (kel) ker 'heaven,sky' => kerz 'heavens, skies' > SOL > (sul) sur 'sun' > MILLE > (mil) mir 'thousand' > NULLUM > (nul) nur 'zero' > MALUM > (mal) mar 'bad' == mar 'ocean' > >And also: > > ARBOREM > (arbul) albur 'tree' > MANTELUM > (mantil) mantir 'cape, cloak' > >Maybe even (less likely due to mixed original distribution of l and r): > BOREALEM > (boral) bolar 'northern' > >I am not really content with this, especially the monosyllabics are >not what I dream of. > >What other shifts of -l would be feasible? Any ideas? Could I >handle -/ls/ specially? The -/l/ itself I find quite nice. > > **Henrik
In Vallés, l + s becomes dz (dental + laminal) after a vowel. The epenthetic e is used when the singular ends in two consonants (or a voiceless consonant). Jeff

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