Re: Montreiano Numerals (was: Re: Judajca)

--- Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> wrote:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Does Montrei have a Language Board to keep the
> >language pure?
>
> So, yes, there is a language board that clarified
> things and keeps the language "pure" (Montreiano
> would rather borrow from Portuguese than
> Spanish, but the common people generally borrow
> whatever is popular and disregards " Que diçen eu
> consexo de las poliças lingüísticas" (what the
> board of linguistic police say).
Hm. I like their attitude! Kerno speakers tend to
borrow whatever old word strikes their fancy as well.

If you didn't know, the provincial Senate abolished
the Language Boards on account of their ineffectual
handling of their duties. [See News Page.] It was
never their duty to keep the language pure of course,
but rather to formulate a standard language. They
couldn't agree on what letters should even be in the
alphabet, to say nothing of what words should be
kosher and which should be thrown out!

> (hmm, what would be the closest sound in say Spanish
> to that Brithenig ll?)
Probably "ll"! It's a slithery sound formed by setting
your tongue for an ell, closing off one cheek or the
other and hissing through the resulting space. In
Kerno, it's realised as a coarticulation of [h] and
[l]. Similar, but distinguishable. Along with some
peculiar vowels, Kerno's [hl] is one of the factors
that mark a native Kerno speaker in the ears of a
native Brithenig speaker. And vice versa, to be sure.

[See "Left and Right Realisationes of the Welsche LL
in the Standard Diallecte", 1998, Univ. of Oxford
Press.]

Padraic.


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