... Notes ... Seems fine now. Mysterious. Please do try again... ... Thanks! James PS On the subject of pangrams, do you know any Scandinavian ones? -- -- --...
... Eudora thought the closing parenthesis was part of the URL... A substrate is a language/languages were spoken in an area or by a people before being...
... 8< Many thanks - so a substrate is a relic *underlying* the more obvious aspects of the language? Like the way there are lots of valleys near where I live...
... Interesting! ... I just realised now that the Slavic zolot- (e.g. in Polish zl/oty) could well be related to *g'old :) ... Fascinating... as a Germanic...
... I just discovered that I was passing on old or misunderstood wisdom. Watkins gives a whole bunch of relatives to _gold_, including English _yellow_ and...
Greetings, I've been trying to dabble a little in my still-mostly-theoretical Germanic conlang again. Right now I'm still trying to work out how to mutate my...
... Absolutely; indeed, it's more the rule than the exception that stress and length condition vowel change. Usually long and short vowels mutate quite ...
Tomas te Hélaz eskrë » ... When vowels shift (say, for example, original /a/ becomes /o/ and original /o/ becomes /u/) is it the general rule that all...
... Well, the English Great Vowel Shift affected only long vowels, leaving the short vowels alone; true that even in ME length wasn't the only characteristic ...
A quick browse of _The Germanic Languages_ (König and van der Auwera, the Routledge Language Family series) throws up a profusion of vowel changes to ...
Thanks everyone for all your answers. Here's a concrete example of what I'm strugglig with. The OHG for "house" is /hu:s/. The OHG for "you" (the 2s pronoun)...
Hi Thomas, You could justify your /dy/ and /hOws/ by saying that unstressed long /u:/ became /y/ and stressed /u:/ became /Ow/. *Du would have had two forms a ...
... Hi Dan! Lowena dhys! Fatla gans dha gomputer? :) ... unstressed long /u:/ ... That had occurred to me, but is it, well, realistic that the same sound...
... wrote: > > Hi Thomas, ... Well, given time, certainly. English ow and short-u-as-in-put used to be a difference of length+quality (but not all that much),...
Dhys Lowena, Thomas! Thanks for asking, but my computer's still out. Sound changes of the kind you mentioned are both possible and common. You'll find similar...
... One that comes to mind immediately is that /hu:s/ is a closed syllable while /du:/ is an open syllable. Alternatively the normal change could be /u:/ > /y/...
... Just about any kind of mutation could be justified, though to be plausible might require some intermediate steps. For example, something like p > z would...
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What I find amusing about this tripe is that this particular idiot is attempting to get people to unsub from the list. Wild. "Spam" in Jameld: "Spam", or...
... Anyway, this particular idiot has been removed from the member list. Interestingly, exactly the same message reached Romanceconlang today, but from a...
I see that British TV weather presenter Siân Lloyd (who is Welsh) is to marry the Member of Parliament Lembit Öpik (whose parents were Estonian). I do hope...
... But both are in Latin-1. Now a marriage between a Western and a Central European person could create a name which cannot be represented correctly in...
... Actually, Jan II's Nashian has both tremas and circumflexes. ... Hehe. I quite like the name Öpik anyway. Perhaps I'll steal it for Ill Bethisad's...
John Cowan eskrë » ... LOL. I might have known, John, that you'd see it from an encoding perspective :) Of course, my Jameldic name isn't even representable...
... Will a combining double macron work? Unicode 4.0 has that at 035E. I looked through my fonts and couldn't find one that includes it. I tried to add one...
... That character doesn't seem to exist in Arial Unicode (ugh) or Gentium. Unless, of course, I'm doing something wrong.... Ah, I see Kaleb found the same...
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