Danny Wier wrote:
> Marhaban to the list Jessica! I'm a Texan, and I speak
> English and some Spanish naturally. (I really need to
> work on the Spanish). I'm engaged to anative Farsi
> speaker, and like me she studied French in school. Our
> kids, should any ever occur, will have an interesting
> home life...
Yeah. I can imagine that. Haha :)
> Right now, I'm obsessively studying Hebrew and
> Arabic, more the latter. I'm really doing a semi-conlang
> based on a larger Arabic-like consonant phonology
> (really more like Diakonoff's reconstructed Old Hebrew
> system which is closest to Proto-Semitic) with the more
> developed Hebrew vowel system (and the _begad
> kefat_ lenition of non-emphatic stops).
That's pretty cool! :)
> I call this a "semi-conlang" because it's actually part of
> the Tech project which you'll hear me go on and on and
> on about. I just finished the phonology after literally
> over a decade.
Well. I also got stuck on the phonology first. Or rather
the ortography. At first I had to many signs for a small
set of phonemes. But now thanks to Daniel I'm finally
done with it. I think I need to work a little more on the
phonology though.
Jessica