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Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, February 24, 2003, 21:42
Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> Hehe, stressed schwas do exist indeed. But I cannot give you an example at the > moment. More knowledgeable people than me have to step in here :) . John? :)))
Welsh acquired them when the stress moved from ultimate to penultimate. Hindi got them from a sound-change /a/ > /@/. Hence the old spelling "suttee" for widow-burning; a more literal transliteration would be "sati". -- A mosquito cried out in his pain, John Cowan "A chemist has poisoned my brain!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan The cause of his sorrow http://www.reutershealth.com Was para-dichloro- jcowan@reutershealth.com Diphenyltrichloroethane. (aka DDT)