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NB. "Sarah" doesn't have /{/. I'd have thought an e-sound would be a closer approximation? Does too! Sarah = /s{r@/ in non Mary-merry-marry merger NAE. Another possibility is /sAr@/, if the person is trying to go for a more "ethnic" sound; either pronunciation could also be spelled "Sara" (though t...

I don't know what you're talking about, Viktor. Listen to Spanish as she is spoke sometime. Around here, you never here para , only p(a)' -- pa'l , p'acá , p'atrás , etc. Not the Spanish I've listened to (which ranges from Mexican to Colombian). I never really hear contractions. If I watched a Span...

vecfaranti wrote: To wrap up predication issues, WALS goes into the subject of zero copula. This is not possible in avrelang. It is in Russian, though. Just in case you didn't know...

Figured you would have said, "This not possible in avrelang."

Also, in Soviet Russia, copula zeros you.

My understanding was that Classical Latin was largely intended to be pronounced as it was spelled, with a few minor exceptions:
* short vowels were lax
* final -m may have represented a nasalization of the preceding vowel

... and even these may have been later innovations