Re: Wenedyk - Master (?) Plan

 --- Jan van Steenbergen wrote:

>  --- Roger Mills wrote:
> > >Nasalization of the preceding vowel leads (like in Russian and other
> > >Slavic languages, but unlike in Polish) lead to the following changes:
> > >[a~]     [u]
> > Hmmm...how do you derive that?
>
> [...] But to be honest, I have some doubts about this sounds change. I don't
> want to be just copying features from Slavic languages into Wenedyk; I think
> I'm free to let my own taste play a role as well. And if I were to follow
> this rule, Latin /cantare/ would become /kutar/ in Wenedyk. Nothing wrong
> with that of course, but somehow I think I would prefer /katar/.
A third possibility would be to leave the nasals alone. In that case /cantare/
would become [kãtar] /ka,tar/ (with ogonek). Theoretically there would be
nothing wrong with that, but somehow it frightens me; I don't want Wenedyk to
become a bad copy of Polish.

This is my main dilemma at the moment (respecting Wenedyk, at least :) )

Jan

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