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linguoboy · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 9:02 am Posts:1003

Kloiten wrote:

The consonants of Atlantean are as such: [kgtdpblrnmywsʃjx]. When two appear in a row, the sound is optionally geminated.

Do you mean when two of the same consonant appear in a row? (And, if so, what is the other option, simplification?) Or do you mean that some kind of assimilation takes place or what? That is, is /kp/ optionally [kp:] or even [p:]? Or does this sort of cluster not even occur?

Kloiten · **Posted:** Thu 24 Feb 2011 6:47 am

linguoboy wrote:

Kloiten wrote:

Okrand also apparently spliced roots from these phyla, coming up with words like "tab", father, which combined Hebrew "ab" and Irish "tad".

Tad is Welsh, not Irish. The Irish word for "father" is athair (< PIE *pH₂tér).

....I don't see what was so offensive about this..
Oh well. Thanks for the correction.

As for lingustic explanation, I suppose I could. If el pueblo is still interested. Haven't been on this site for a very long time. Oh yeah, somewhere on this forum the resident linguist of the Yahoo! Atlantean group lurks.

Kloiten · **Posted:** Thu 24 Feb 2011 6:51 am

linguoboy wrote:

Kloiten wrote:

The consonants of Atlantean are as such: [kgtdpblrnmywsʃjx]. When two appear in a row, the sound is optionally geminated.

Do you mean when two of the same consonant appear in a row? (And, if so, what is the other option, simplification?) Or do you mean that some kind of assimilation takes place or what? That is, is /kp/ optionally [kp:] or even [p:]? Or does this sort of cluster not even occur?

Sorry, that was kinda vague:

I meant that when a consonant is doubled, the sound is a resulting gemination: /kk/ = [k:] and so on.

linguoboy · Joined:Sun 19 Apr 2009 9:02 am Posts:1003

Kloiten wrote:

linguoboy wrote:

Kloiten wrote:

Okrand also apparently spliced roots from these phyla, coming up with words like "tab", father, which combined Hebrew "ab" and Irish "tad".

Tad is Welsh, not Irish. The Irish word for "father" is athair (< PIE *pH₂tér).

....I don't see what was so offensive about this.

No one called it "offensive". It's simply incorrect.

Kloiten wrote:

I meant that when a consonant is doubled, the sound is a resulting gemination: /kk/ = [k:] and so on.

Thank you for the clarification.