Re: Future of Spanish

Carlos Thompson wrote:
> Well, I guess this language of hundreds of million of speakers, being
> national language of 20 countries and spoken in other parts of the
> world... would not have an uniform evolution but reather split in
> dialects that would eventually become national languages... if La Real
> Academia looses it's control.
That doesn't seem very likely to me, for the same reason that English
hasn't split into national languages.  Unless civilization collapsed,
and the countries were cut off from each other, they'd remain the same
language.

>   Posible split of the /B/ into [B] and [v] based on orthography
> (counter correction of speech).
I suspect that that's rather unlikely.  I don't know of any examples of
phonemes being introduced into a language from the orthography.

>   Lost of syllabe final /s/, being replaced for a phonemic
> differenciation of [e]-[E], [o]-[O] and [&]-[A].
That's already happened in some dialects in Spain.

> This would become
> a case with the following endings:
Not very likely, I think.  It's a preposition, so it would most likely
become a prefix.  But it might fuse with the forms of "el" as it already
has with "del".  Possible forms (assuming a loss of /l/ in final and
medial positions, and your loss of voiced stops):
/DE/, /Da/, /DO/, /D&/ = del, de la, de los, de las; perhaps they'd be
written de`, da, do`, da`
(e` = /E/, o` = /O/, a` = /&/)

Perhaps other fusions of preposition+el, or maybe also un.
Possibilities:
de + un: dun (pronounced /du~/), duna, duno`, duna`
a + articles: au (<al), a, au (<aus < alos), a`; aun (pr. a~u~), auna,
auno`, auna`
in + articles: ne`, na, no`, na`, nun, nuna, nuno`, nuna`
pa (para) + articles: pau, pa, pau, pa`, p(a)un, p(a)una, p(a)uno`,
p(a)una`
por + articles: pre`, pra, pro`, pra`, prun, pruna, pruno`, pruna`

Perhaps others, but I think this'll be enough for now.