Hi!
Elliott Lash <erelion12@...> writes:
>...
Interesting phonotactics. :-)
>...
> !aalza /||a:K\a/ squirrel > n!aalza /n'||a:K\a/
Hmm, but for a lateral click the tongue is still mainly in
(post-)alveolar position, only the click is then produced with the
sides of the tongue. I think I'd use homorganic n in front of the
click, so either alveolar or postalveolar, depending on where exactly
the tongue is for the click. The way it is now seems strangely
different from the other assimilations.
Or maybe the click is totally different to what I think?
> The collective plural is relatively simple after all
> that. It is formed with the prefix ba- /b_<a/:
I like collective plurals. :-)
Do you allow them to be applied more than once? Qthyn|gai allows
stacked number endings to give you things like 'two swarms of locust'
= 'locust-COLL-DUAL'. You could also have 'locust-DUAL-COLL-SING' =
'one group of two locusts' (actually, the inner collective suffix
would be implied, it'd actually be 'locust-DUAL-SING').
> >From this basis however, different directional and
> manner prefixes can be added to the root to talk about
> different types of action.
>
> lh(e)- /K(E)/ adds a meaning of _fast and random_
> i'- /i?/ adds a meaning of _slow and deliberate_
> da- /d'a/ adds a meaning of _roundtrip_
Nice!
> That's all we have so far, but others are planned.
> These change the meaning of the verb considerably:
>
> di /d'i/ to be located, be at
> lhdi /Kd'i/ to be scattered all about haphazardly
Klingon?? :-)
> lze'vi /K\E?v@j/ to serve, cook
Why [@j]? You said this happened after uvulars.
> I think that's okay for right now, since this is a
> large post, and I need to do some actual work now..
Very nice work, I like it! :-)
But beware: you and your co-worker please try not to be regarded as
wackos by the other co-workers! :-)))
**Henrik