Re: In need of a conlang

From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>

> The phonology is ruch with the pharyngeal/glottal songs of Arabic, a
fortis
> (stop)/lenis (spirant) distinction as in Mishnaic Hebrew and Syriac, and
an
> enriched vowel system along the lines of Hebrew. It could be written in
> Latin or Arabic script, but I prefer Ge'ez/Ethiopic since it's not only
> culturally congruent to the language, but it fits in very well with Tech's
> six short vowels.
First of all, it's rich not *ruch, an obvious reversed dialectal Techism
where u becomes i via a mediary i-bar (the same sound as Russian bI) or y
(German u-umlaut).

Also, if you're not familiar with the really unique Ge'ez syllabry, it
originated from Epigraphic South Arabian as used by the Sabaens, and
developed into a syllabry using various alterations of the forms of each
consonant for each CV combination (and in many cases CwV). The traditional
typeface resembles to me characters that take the forms of humans, animals,
trees and such. I'll post a page on it very soon.

~Danny~


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