Re: CONLANG Digest - 30 Oct 2000 to 31 Oct 2000 (#2000-298)

jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> Actually, the orthography was changed a little while ago.  Now, <â> is the
> standard spelling, with <î> used only in the personal pronouns (îmi,
> îti, îi), the preposition în, compounds that begin with în-, and those few
> verbs that have î as the thematic vowel.
Gross.  That means that you have to remember that â patterns with front
vowels, a with back vowels (e.g. in the interpretation of a preceding c or g).
Or am I misremembering, and î patterned with back vowels already?

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