Hi! rjtran (< Frigoterrana) is the name of my new Vulgar Latin based romlang with Icelandic flavour. The initial web pages contain mainly the first version...
theiling@...
Apr 3, 2006 5:06 pm
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... I like the f > change, but shouldn't you have p > f (e.g. in PORTA) as well? NB /p/ was *very rare* in Germanic due to the rarity of *b in PIE. In fact...
... I haven't got a chance to look at it right now, but I'm sure I'll be very interested once I can! ... Scandinavians don't have lax vowels as allophones of...
... Wow, this is what one would call: an Umlaut system from hell! ;) Congratulations! I know nothing at all about Icelandic, but I like the overall look of...
... It differs between lects, but mostly not, apart from [@] as unstressed allophone of /e/ in Danish and some Norwegian. Lax vowels do occur for short vowels...
Hi! ... I thought about it but currently decided against it, since I wanted a minimal amount of constructed sound changes. The few I have are mainly for...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 4, 2006 12:37 pm
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Hi! ... And scaringly, the tables do look like Icelandic at first sight... (At least to me.) BTW, a-umlaut is not implemented yet. But it's quite rare,...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 4, 2006 12:42 pm
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... As a quick aside, this makes sense to me. Latin /p/ survived in historical loans, so, /yes/ a Germanicized Romance seems likely to keep /p/, too. Cheers, ...
... I misspoke there, I meant "lax vowels as allophones of short ones", or alternatively, "So Scandinavians don't have [I] as the pronunciation of (short) /i/,...
I think we may partly have misunderstood each other, yes, but mostly I omitted to state clearly two facts which I took for granted: (1) that [I] occurs long...
... But don't you end up without any [f] in the lang? A Germanic lang with no [f] is decidedly more weird than a Germanic lang without /p/. -- /BP 8^)> -- ...
Hi! ... Well, with the exception of loans, yes. :-) ... But it's a hybrid conlang, so it's not only Germanic. This is then the effect of being a romlang. And...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 4, 2006 2:45 pm
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... As another quick aside :) I'm less sure about the f > change that functions to strip the language of /f/. OK, an early Germanicky language ought to...
Hi! ... Oh, sure. E.g. /pt/ = [ft] in ModIS (and I think also ON). Moreover, early /f/ merged with /v/ in many positions and some are pronounced [f] now...
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
Apr 4, 2006 4:19 pm
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... I think people rarely consider the sound system of other languages when they mishear unfamiliar vowels :) But having only one vowel quality in that general...
... No, but one may consider the sound system of other languages lest one mispronounce them, and mightn't those that make one confusion be better of than those...
Hi! The first full version about verb morphology in my Latin-Icelandic conlang has been uploaded: http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s17/ (Click on 'Verbs, verbs,...
theiling@...
Apr 23, 2006 4:16 pm
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Sllir, can anyone tell me what happens with a voiced fricative resulting from Verner's Law when it occurs after a nasal? My hunch is that [mB nD NG] were...
... I found # *anti̯ó- (germ. *andja-) in got. andeis, # anord. endir, as. endi, ags. ende m., # ahd.anti, enti m. und n., nhd. Ende; Which answers the...
Does anyone have a decent summary of, or can anyone point me to a good online resource for, the vowels shifts occurring from West Germanic through to modern...
I've been working on a concept for a _sort of_ "alternate history Europe" where on of the things I want to do is "change the names to protect the innocent" ;)...
Yeah. Any more info would be nice, although the shifts aren't generally as extensive as in English, and when they do occur they're fairly along the same lines...
I recommend R.E. Keller's "The German Language" (for publication info see <http://tinyurl.com/fycot>). Not online, but a book. I would always try a (uni)...
Roly, Many of the MHG and OHG distinctions are still preserved in the various German dialects, so it might be worth checking them out, too. - Gmc *ai changed...
Thanks for the answers. Thanks for the book recommendation, Benct - I plan a trip back to "alma mater's" library at some point, just pressed for time at the...
Hi! What is 'sem' in Icelandic derived from? Or Swedish 'som' or Faroese 'sum' (i.e., the modern North Germanic relative clause particle)? I could not find a...
theiling@...
Jun 26, 2006 12:24 am
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From: Peter Collier "Now if any kind soul wants to save me some time again, here's today's pop quiz. There's a correspondence between /b/ in German and /f/...
Does anyone know off the tops of their heads, at what point German lost the /w/ phoneme? Was it during the MHD of NHD period? Secondly, this book I have here...
... Both NGmc and WGmc have rhotacism; WGmc doesn't show it less clearly as NGmc, because most WGmc languages dropped this -r at an early stage. Consider EGmc...
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