Re: Judean Romancelang Plans
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 22, 1999, 18:19 |
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On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:20:58 -0500 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
>> How is Iudaea pronounced? /judaea/ ? /judaEa/ ? Are any of the
>vowels
>> long? Is the normal Latin suffix for language/nationality/etc.
>_-a_?
>/judaja/ later /judEa/, and I think they're all short, but it's
>possible
>the /u/ is long /u:/.
Okay. according to my etymological dictionary, it was /u:/.
So therefore, so far the name of the language is _Ju(:)d(h/z)ajajt(h/s)_
[juwzaj'ajs], with the shifts:
/u:/ >> /uw/
/d/ >> /z/ after a long vowel
/a/ >> /ajs/ because of the addition of the Hebrew _-it_ of
language-names.
/t/ >> /s/ at the end of the word
{ae} >> {aj} under influence from more phonetic Hebrew spelling
I'm not sure how it'll be written in the Latin alphabet yet, more
phonemically or more phonetically.
Some possible spellings:
Ju:dajajt (: = macron over the vowel)
Ju:dhajajth
Ju:DajajT (where D = edh, T = thorn, but pronounced [z] and [s])
Ju:zajajs (maybe {s} >> [S] [Z] could be written with an upside-down ^)
(and other possibilities using a U without a macron)
Anyone have any preferences? I think i'm leaning towards either #1
(fully phonemic) or #4 (mostly phonemic, except for d/z and t/s
shifts...i also like the idea of having the S^ letter).
Hrrm, that brings up a problem even in the Hebrew orthography....whether
to spell all /t/ with a tav and all /d/ with a dalet, or to use samekh
and zayin for the [s] and [z] allophones...
>John Cowan
http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
> You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
> You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
> Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)