Re: Babel text in Spanzhol
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 7, 2004, 19:10 |
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At 03:59 5.4.2004 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>Shfanzhol is a language of North America about 1000 years from now.
>This is not the final version. Orthography is ad hoc, Spanish
>mostly, but h sh zh dzh are [h] [S] [Z] [dZ], v is labio-dental.
Some sound changes I would expect in a future Spanish:
Syllable final /s/ > zero via [h].
Consequences of this may be:
Distinctive vowel length in stressed syllables.
Loss of overt plural marking in nouns and adjectives.(*)
/mismas/ > /miima/
Loss of intervocalic /d/ and /g/ (you already have this)
More distinctive long vowels from this.
Intervocalic /4/ becomes /d/. (r/4 distinction lost)
/j/ may become /dZ/ in some positions to match /tS/.
(*) Number would be marked on the articles
SING PLUR
INDEF un(a) -
DEF el/la lo
/BP 8^)
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