Re: Preliminary Sketch

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

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