Re: Some Zitwbata text

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Thalmann" <cinga@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: Some Zitwbata text


> --- In conlang@y..., Joe Hill <joe@W...> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Joe Hill" <joe@W...>
> > To: <CONLANG@L...>
> > Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:45 PM
> > Subject: Some Zitwbata text
> >
> >
> > > My first fully original text, the Declaration of Independance
> > <snip>
> >
> > Sorry, that is, the Zitobaran Declaration of Independance.
> >
> > I love this, Zitwbata for "Declaration of Independance" translates
literally
> > as "Freedom's Cry"  (Ozwt Panot)
>
> What is it pronounced and stressed like?  Does {w} have a vowel value?
>
{w} is /y/

the capital letters are fricatives

{K} is /x/
{T} is /T/
{S} is /S/
{D} is /D/
{Z} is /Z/
{v} is /B/
{f} is /P/
{c} is /tS/
{k} is /k/
{g} is /g/
{t} is /t/
{d} is /d/
{p} is /p/
{b} is /b/
{m} is /m/
{n} is /n/
{l} is /l/
{r} is /r/

Vowels

{a} is /a/
{i} is /i/
{o} is /Q/
{u}is /U/
{e} is /E/
{w} is /y/

Somewhere, far,far back in the list, I posted a grammar.