Re: New Conlang: Terkunan

Hi!

Jeffrey Jones writes:
>...
> I have a question about verbs. It seems like the verb forms, since they end in
> {(a(r))} all come from the 1st conjugation infinitive, but the stress is not on
> the {a}. Was there a stress shift you didn't mention? Or did I miss it?
You are absolutely right, I did not mention it.  Mainly because I am
not fully satisfied with the current stress rules.  They are a bit
inconsistent but if I try to make them consistent in a trivial way, I
do not like them anymore.  So I need to find a consistent system that
I like, and I need a conhistorical explanation for it.

For the verbs, one could argue that most forms in the 1st conjugation
have the stress on the syllable that is stressed in Terkunan now.  So
I might need an explanation for why it is an epenthetic -r- that
creeps in.

> PS I had a little bit of trouble reading the page -- you use a lot of characters I
> don't have the fonts for, including some that don't seem to do anything.
Ah.  Hmm, I can only think of IPA characters that might cause trouble.  You're
a conlanger -- you *need* IPA fonts! :-)

I think there is no way to format HTML in such a way that CXS is used
if IPA is not available.  Only way would be to have two pages, but
that's not all too nice for the page creator.  Maybe I could implement
a manual switching mechanism with style sheets.  I will think about
it.

Was there anything else but IPA that does not display well?

**Henrik