Re: New Brithenig words, part Deux.

En réponse à Danny Wier <dawier@...>:

>
> Not only in Italian, but also in Romanian.  Also, <c> before front
> vowels in Old
> English was sometimes pronounced /tS/, other times /k/ (closer to [c] in
> actual
> value).
>
In Roman (the ancestor of Old French) <c> and <g> were palatalized into
affricates in front of front vowels too. But French de-affricated all its
affricates into simple fricatives (a phenomenon which is not unlike the complete
monophtongation of diphtongues and triphtongues which were common in Old French,
but completely disappeared in Modern French).

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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