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Re: CHAT: Epenthetic vowels (was: RE: chat: weird names)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Sunday, August 8, 1999, 15:59
FFlores scripsit:

> I think short Latin /i/ changed into /e/ in Spanish,
And in all the western Romance languages.
> Italian doesn't have them AFAIK (certainly not orthographically),
It uses prefixed "i-" when a consonant precedes: "scuola", but "in iscuola". -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin