Re: Latin grammar

 --- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote: >
Jan wrote:
> >
> >Interesting. I never knew Rubaga was a Romance
> language. Did you ever post
> >something about its grammar? Or do you have a link
> of some kind?
> >
> >All I remember of it, is that it has nine different
> ways of pronouncing
> >/g/,
> >providing the language with a fair degree of
> Maggelity. Quite an
> >achievement, I
> >admit.
> >
> >Wenedyk, on the other hand, has a very low degree
> of Maggelity, and so do
> >my
> >other languages. I usually tend to create an
> orthography that fits
> >pronunciation (or the other way 'round, perhaps).
> Slavic influence, I
> >guess...
> >
>
> My conlangs also tend to have very reg'lar
> orthographies. Steianzh has,
> however, quite unintentionally evolved a number of
> spelling weirdities,
> particularly a consistent inconsistency in how close
> the spelling is to
> pronounciation. Eg, almost all of the assimilated
> and reduced variants of
> the copula are recognized in spelling, but the very
> heavy and quite regular
> reductions of noun endings are not - f'rinstance
> _zedelener_ "girls
> (dative)" is pronounced [zEdl=nr=].
>
bac is pretty regular, altho it uses tons of digraphs
( which are justified in that they make explicit root
mutations . . . got this idea from celtic, but unlike
christophe it didn't lead to maggelity )

there is one peculiarity, which is the use of the
modifier letters |n| and |h| to indicate
prenasalisation and prelenition when used _before_  a
letter ( they usually come after ). this isn't used in
the classical language, but is quite common in the
current version :

|senrar| /'sEr4a4/ > /ser:a4/
|dihtar| /'dITta4/ reflection/shadow ( more precisely,
cast image )
|wohdaj| /'wODdadZ/ peak
|lohgad| /'lOGgad/ grass
 and possibly my favourite :
|bahret| /'bar\4Et/ path ( yes, /r\4/ is an
approximant /tap pair )

in roman transcription there is an ambiguity in that
these letters can also appear after a vowel to change
its quality/quantity ( nasal or long ). apostrophes
can be used in close transcription, and the difference
in the case of nasals isn't too great, but either way
there is no ambiguity in the bac script.

bn

=====
bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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