Re: Question about Romlangs/CeltiConlangs
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 22, 2002, 9:41 |
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At 11:42 2002-08-21 -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
>How early would the Vulgar Latin base of Judajca have to had broken away
>in order to preserve the /h/ phoneme?
Not sure, but I think already in pre-imperial times.
An alternative way is to re-introduce /h/ thru an *s > /h/ sound change, in
which case a definite article with initial /h/ could derive from _ipse_:
this actually became _isse_ in Romance, and if _ille_ could be shortened to
_le_, _illa_ to _la_, then why not _isse_ > _se_ > _he_, _issa_ > _sa_ > _ha_.
An s > h change might be a good idea since you IIRC have a VtV > VsV change.
And thanks for informing me about the existence of postposed definite
articles outside the Scandinavian and Balkan areas!
/BP 8^)>
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