chat; weird names,was Re; conlanging,the ultimate feminist subversion

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:51:35 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>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/)
>--
>AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor

Well, i don't know if it's the same process, but in Hebrew, words that
end with /3/ (`ayin) or /H/ (hhet) acquire an /a/ stuck in before them:

yashein /jOSen/  vs.  yagei'a` /jOGea3/
tishmor /tiSmor/  vs.  tismo'ahh /tismoaH/
leholid /l@holiD/  vs.  lehokhi'ahh /l@hoxiaH/
reid /reD/  vs.  rei'a` /rea3/


-Stephen (Steg)

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