Re: CHAT: weird names,was Re: conlanging,the ultimate feminist subversion

John Cowan wrote:
> ObConlang: Brithenig has prosthetic "y", pronounced /i/.  Turkish,
> which isn't Romance but has the same rules, uses "i" also
Actually, wasn't the /e/ of other Romance Langs originally /i/?  It's my
understanding that, for instance, schola --> iscola --> escola -->
escuela (in Spanish).  Aren't epinthetic vowels generally a high vowel,
as in Japanese where it's normally /u/, or /o/ (/o/ with /t/, /d/, /s/,
/z/)

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