Re: DECAL: Examples #2: Phonotactics
| From: | Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 14, 2005, 1:22 |
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Sai Emrys <saizai@...> escrivut:
For Xinkutlan
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>Q1: What are your allowable syllable structures?
(C)v(C)
>Q2: Onset clusters?
None (apart from the afficates, which are phonemic anyway)
>Q3: Codas?
Again, none.
>Q4: Any changes depending on place in word, etc.?
I don't think so
>Q5: Motivation / reasoning / goals behind this?
I was trying to create a language for a bronze age conculture, so I wanted
something that suggested a fairly "early" language without many crunchy
clusters, along the lines of Sumerian or some such.
Geoff