Re: Brainstorming Burgendish

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
> Henrik Theiling skrev:
> > Hi!
> > Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
> >> I'm trying to create a sister language to Gothic which
> >> is thought to have been spoken by Burgundians in 12th
> >> century Gaul...
> > Your brainstorming sounds very interesting and I am very
> > eager to read more. :-)
> > **Henrik
> >
>
> Thanks for the kind words. Can you think of any not yet
> tried but also not too drastic or exotic way of messing
> up Common Germanic?  I guess that's what I'm asking for...
Ok, a braindump:

  - shift stress to work like in (Vulgar) Latin
    and then see what happens when you start syncoping
    and collapsing unstressed vowels into /a i u/.

    Although, I think, this may be too much.

  - use some interesting metathesis (Sardinian has
    same funny phenomena, but I cannot come up with
    examples just now.)

  - collapse u into i (via /y/) (like Nahuatl)

  - have a-umlaut but no i- or u-umlauts (of course,
    after that, drop that /a/)

  - shift s or f to h to 0

  - have no palatalisation at all

  - simplify initial clusters (sk > k, bl > l, ...)

  - let long consonants evolve into ejectives
    (kk > ?k > k_>)

**Henrik