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There were no (or very few) Gauls south of Rimini or east of Padua, certainly not enough to pass on their nominal conjugations to the resident Italians and so forth :^/

What developed into eastern Romance had -as as the nom. fem. plural, not CL -ae... don't know if that's attested anywhere but it's the only thing that fits our data. Besides that, I don't know if I can think of anything else that differs systematically btw CL and proto-romance....

why are half of those from latin and slavic?

ad, alta, appellare, apollo, arachnis, arbor, arcum, argentum, azur ...

okno, svetla, borsuk, bogaty, chetvert, chisto, chesto, zdorova, dzienkuy, dinya, dobre, dom, den, drug, dukh....

feels very unprofessional

Fingols :---DDDDDDDDDDDDD

that's ebin'st

This isn't really a SCA2 question but it might be useful to some of y'all. It's the sound changes from classical latin, including orthography, to vulgar latin (with stress marked), with west Romance vowel outcomes (which you can however easily change). For lack of a unicode character I represented t...

Gotta be Hiw

Looks like Tamazigh to me. The western dialect, specifically.

T'ar numahcy [nuˈmæht͡ɕ] > Late Latin numaecem [nu'mɛtʃɛ] > Canaric mish [miʃ] T'ar susuniru [susuˈniru] > Late Latin susunīrum [soso'niro] > Canaric snhiy [sn̥i:] T'ar shèrut 'u [shɛˈrʊtˤʊ] > Late Latin serōtum [se'roto] > Canaric zhghåq [ʒɣɑʔ] T'ar vururu [ʋuˈruru] > Late Latin vūrūrum [vu'ruro] >...

Most people I talk to agree that the distinction was not a velar-palatovelar one but rather uvular-velar... does that fit your theory?

I want a million dollars and a sixty four impala

Can you understand what birds are saying?

.... Serbian? the fuck

Sioux

Cherokee

there's lots of free dvd software out there

/m n/ m n
/p t c k kʷ ʔ/ p t ḱ k kʷ h₁
/b d ɟ g gʷ/ b d ǵ g gʷ
/bʰ dʰ ɟʰ gʰ gʷʰ/ bʰ dʰ ǵʰ gʰ gʷʰ
/s x ɣ ʕ/ s h₂ h₃ h₄
/r l j w/ r l y w

/a e i o u/ a e i o u
/aː eː iː oː uː/ ā ē ī ō ū
+stress

/t'od cecluw'oːs x'owis x'eɟrom bʰug'et/
tod kekluwṓs h₂ówis h₂égrom bʰugét

complete deletion, or, possibly, some kind of vowel change

I guess some feature of tone could conceivably carry over to the consonants as, say, breathy or glottal voice but I've never heard of that happening

mamul, you say?

Zéftis Teftuyígha /ˈdzeftis teftuˈʝiɣa/ /p t c k/ < p t ch k > /b~v d~ð ɟ~ʝ g~ɣ/ < b~v d~dh jh~y g~gh > /f s ç x/ < f s sh kh > /m n/ < m n > /r l/ < r l > /ts dz/ < c z > /a e i o u/ < a e i o u > /di ˈon ekliˈso e ɣaˈlatse in ˈroðo es in ˈeðo di çiˈða ˈfis psi ˈðiʝi i ˈatri ˈaro es psi ˈciri iˈso...

Basically, but cows are only female, technically. Cattle is the only word that strictly refers to the whole species, while you have other words like bulls, oxen and calves for different variations on sex and age. Fucking amazing. In my idiolect of circa a few hours ago cow referred to the species a...

Yeah, THTWATL described their animals pretty well.

Also, wow. Until now I thought "cattle" referred to cows, pigs, sheep, goats, camels and any other domesticated food animal. Apparently it's just cows. Who knew.

it's hard to visualize those changes on account of it's not a very informative format you chose to present them in

maybe try a graph with IPA ?

It seems reasonable to me. S is much more 'stable' than þ (the closest I could find to theta), so a pull chain like this would be extremely plausible. right, but it's not an unconditional change, just before high formants, like japanese or ancient greek come to think of it, what happened to greek t...

if t and d become ts and dz before high vowels and semivowels, would θ become s?