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Re: the infixing consonant-cluster conlang

From:Rodlox R <rodlox@...>
Date:Sunday, September 18, 2005, 14:52
here is the text of the website:

>From: Rodlox R <rodlox@...> >Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> >To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu >Subject: the infixing consonant-cluster conlang >Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:05:35 +0000 > >Hi. > >There was so much interest in the consonant-strings/consonant-clusters >discussion, that I thought to show why I'd asked: > >http://www.geocities.com/rodlox/Conlangs/infixing.html >...is still in the early phases, but I thought to double-check if this >qualified as infixing - or if I was confusing "infixing" with something >else. > > >If anybody'd sent me a reply or email about this, I apologize -- my email >hiccupped. Please resend, I beg.
Basic pronounciation: Vowels: the Welsh ll the Spanish ñ Consonants: sch as in English school There are several ways to pronounce ktk and tkt, depending upon one's accent -- pronounce /kt/ /tk/, or /kt/ /k/, or what one anthropologist described as "a strangled sound, like he was trying to get rid of flem." Anthropological Notes: In this society, those who reach puberty are kicked out of the village, and must find residence at another village - the further the better; a point that childhood stories have reinforced in their minds. Once they have found such a village - one whose motifs match no part of the wanderer's tattoo, the wanderer is initiated into adulthood (part of citizenship). In the following table, it is the "vowels" which are underscored. Where there is an underscore without a letter above the line, that denotes what the word looks like, minus the infix. infixed word translation example of when it would be used bhñlludh state of being: being part of a community (associated with adulthood) ___ ___ _ bhuñdh state of being: living alone (associated with puberty) ___ ___ _ bhuñlldh state of being: cared for by the community (associated with childhood) ___ ___ _ bhuñllktkdh tattoo of childhood (denoting ancestry) ___ ___ _ dlnrñtdhr belonging, a sense of belonging, the closest thing to a name for their culture-society ___ ___ _ dlnrlltdhru the knowledge of belonging, their name for the Empire-society which allows them a measure of autonomy (but they're still answerable to the Empire) ___ ___ _ dlnrllatñ outsiders, those of no known people, strangers ___ ___ _ dlnretkre an Enemy, a recurrent visitor, that which cannot be stopped ___ ___ _ dhrllntrn ___ this was mentioned to the anthropologist, but no translation or explanation was given. ___ _ kvllookshtñ avoiding the wreckage/ruins traveling, problem-solving kvllooksht going to the wreckage/ruins traveling, problem-solving kvñllgvrkn a study of the past, studying the past ___ ___ schikntn storm coming [to] ___ ___ _ scheikntn storm going [away from] ___ ___ tnvñlltr has been killed ___ ___ _ tnvñlltrll reputed to have been killed ___ ___ _ tnvñlltrñ has not been killed ___ ___ _ trn_tsknr hand-make, build, built ___ ___ _ tsn_krnt oblige, obligate, obligation tsnukrnt to have obliged ___ ___ _ tsnookrnt am obliged to ___ ___ tsnakrnt the self's obligation to those associated with/to that person ___ ___ _ vrnr_schkn ___ ___ ___ _ vrnrllschkn ___ ___ ___ _ vrnrllñschkn ___ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _ ___ ___ ___ _