En réponse à Tristan <kesuari@...>:
> Well, I had the idea and I really couldn't resist...
>
LOL. Hehe, you get your inspiration from really strange sources ;)) .
> Features of Wydse /wID@/ include:
> - A maggelic/etabnannic orthography.
Always fun! ;)
> - A large collection of vowels, long and short, rounded and
> unrounded, nasalised and not.
> - More diphthongs than you could shake a stick at
> - A smaller collection of approximates, including /j/, /w/, /H/
> and
> /v\/.
I hope it contains also /r\/, /r\`/ and /M\/ ;)))) .
> - Lots of inflexions (most not yet created).
> - Interesting derivations.
>
> Widse is spoken in an Australia that adopted Ygyde as its language,
> presumably because so many immigrants came in with their own languages
> that English speakers were out-numbered by non-English speakers and so
> everyone had at least a passive knowledge of another language.
And why would they have chosen Ygyde as their interlang? Masochism? ;))))
Given
> that it's spoken in Australia, some words have an Australianness about
> them, e.g. jaug /Cou/, which means 'drought' and Lu Jaug /wo Cou/
> (lit.
> 'The Drought') which means 'El Nino'.
> ('Jaug' derives from 'yjagu', absorption of water.) I'm sure South
> Americans wouldn't think of El Nino as a drought...
>
;)))
> 1st 2nd 3rd
> Sing. Pl Sing. Pl Sing. Pl.
> m,that f n,this
> Nom. la oila le oile li lo lu oilu
> la Ha le 9: je lo wo Ho
> Gen. aila oola aile oole aili ailo ailu oolu
> e:l@ wi: e:le wie ei e:lo eu wo:
> Dat. lai oilai lei oilei lii loi lui oilui
> le: yle: li: yli: j9y ly wy H9
> Acc. iila iola iile iole iili iilo iilu iolu
> @la jol@ @le j9: r\i: @lo r\y jou
> Loc. dsaila dsoila dsaile dsoile dsaili dsailo dsailu dsoilu
> je:l@ Dy: je: D9: jei je:lu jou v\y
>
Nice! They all look the same but have widely different pronunciations!!! ;))
>
> But much is still to come. Including the Grand Master Plan. (And quite
> likely a new name... When I named it Widse, I thought <y> was /y/, but
> it seems to be /I/, so it'll probably be Gidse or Gside /jeDe/.)
>
Hehe, now Andrew is probably gonna have a heart attack when he's gonna see
this ;)))) .
Christophe.
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