Re: Challenge to puzzle-lovers: Vampire dialogue from "Blade"

daniel andreasson wrote:
>
> A very excellent analysis by Nik!
*Blush*  Thanks!  Even if I did throw in a lot of total guesswork.  :-)

> My original hypothesis was vowel harmony, where the
> distinction was high/low. u would go with high vowels
> and o with low ones. This works fine with o, but there
> are more exceptions than rules when it comes to u.
Maybe it was originally vowel harmony in Old Vampiric, but sound-changes
have obscured it, and it is now lexically determined?

> We might be able to explain away um-porta and um-panuwa
> with the m-infix
Or that the singular is mporta and mpanuwa, meaning that prenasalized
stops exist in Vampiric.

> Another idea I have is that the plural prefix l-
Or that it wasn't a plural prefix, and I misguessed.  Or even that
Vampiric has multiple ways of forming the plural, many natlangs are that
way, after all.

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