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Re: Preliminary Sketch

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 19:16
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 05:16:42PM -0500, Paul Bennett wrote:
> This afternoon, during a slightly slack period at work, I jotted down some > notes of a language unlike my previous projects. > > Here are my notes in full. Any thoughts, questions or suggestions? > > br /B\/
Interesting. I don't know of any lang that uses the bilabial trill phonemically. Cool! :-)
> dr /r/ > gr /R\/
Nice idea to transcribe different trills by their place of articulation. [...]
> tj /c_+C_+)/ > ch /tS)/
Whoa, this is a hard distinction for me to pronounce. [...]
> ee /i/
This looks a bit too English, IMHO. [...]
> oo /u/
Again, this looks a bit too English to me. You could have other ways of writing [u]: e.g., /ou/ ala Greek. Just MHO of course. [...]
> Verbs of motion supplete for path instead of manner, with adverbs for > manner. > e.g. br'gar "go along", ngana "go toward", shoo ngana "walk towards", > drork ngana "stealthily approach", drork chovbr'gar "sleathily traverse a > beach".
Interesting. [...]
> Language is modifier-head,
You mean modifier-initial?
> with some fusional agglutinative elements, and prefixing > incorporation of primary(?) objects. Check the definition of > dechticaetiative.
Interesting. Any examples? T -- Don't drink and derive. Alcohol and algebra don't mix.

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azathoth500 <azathoth500@...>
Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>Towards a less Preliminary Sketch (was Re: Preliminary Sketch)