Re: New Orthography & Phonology Online

Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:

> > Before consonants
> > Italian really has only one nasal, which is always homorganic:  [m] before
> > [p] or [b], [+] before [f], [n] before dentals, [N] before velars.  This
> > works even across word boundaries:
>
> I believe Spanish does this too?
Yes, exactly. Though I hadn't noticed [+] before [f], it's certainly
there now that I try.

>
> In Lune^, which I described a while back, I'm considering having that
> assimilation PLUS syllabic nasals, so that "un" has evolved to /n=/,
> which is homorganic with the following word, i.e., "un poco" would be
> something like [m='poko]
Nice! I think the Spanish articles are a fruitful source of cool
change for future Spanish scenarios. The /u/ in _un_ is nowadays
very lightly pronounced already. For *my* Future Spanish (which
is now on halt, but may go on one of these days) I used the nasal
to produce mutation ([mp] > [mb], [mb] > [m]); before vowels,
the /u/ was dropped (/un ombre/ > /nombre/) and the /n/ could be
slightly longer than expected (but I didn't want it to make it
'oficially' syllabic or long).


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/pablo-david/