Re: R: Re: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch

En réponse à Mangiat <mangiat@...>:

>
> Is this happening to the diphthong 'ei' as well? If I'm not mistaken,
> they
> should sound the same (generating interesting couplets as rijst/reist =
> rice/he goes which are different only in the written form). This would
> mean
> that Dutch is going to sound quite German... interesting, even if I
> personally prefer the sound of Dutch to that of German.
>
Me too! Fortunately, it seems that the change /Ej/ -> /Aj/ is occuring only in
the North of the Netherlands. The South (at least the places I know) seem to
keep /Ej/ quite well (while they are aware of the change occuring in the North).
It seems that people from the South see their dialects as more aesthetic as the
northern dialects (at least it's an opinion I've often heard), so maybe that's
the reason why /Ej/ is maintained...

Christophe.