Re: New Brithenig words, part Deux.

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 05:49:28PM -0700, Barry Garcia wrote:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Brithenig seems a bit of an odd creature now I look at it more closely. It
> >has some very un-Welsh features, like the change of /k, g/ to /tS, dZ/
> >before front vowels.
>
> I believe these are more Romance changes. in Italian, c /k/ became /tS/ in
> front of front vowels, and I think g became /dZ/ in front of them also (i
> hope i'm right, can anyone correct me if i am incorrect?). Afterall,
> Brithenig IS a romance language.
Yes indeed. But on the other hand, in Sardinian, neither /k/ nor /g/ went
through that change. I've always thought it would be kind of nice for
Brithenig to retain the velar quality also, but I defer to the will of its
speakers on that subject :)

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Eric Christopherson / *Aiworegs Ghristobhorosyo

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