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Re: me again

From:Paul Bennett <paul.bennett@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 21, 2002, 23:22
On 21 May 2002 at 23:24, a. koch wrote:

> Hey hey, > I just joined for the first time recently. Do you have anything on > Wenetaic or Thagojian online?
Not as such. I have copious notes on paper, and probably half a dozen abortive reference grammars on the computer. They've both merged to become just Wenetaic, which is an Indo-european language (most closely related to the Indo-Slavic superbranch, i.e. it's a "satem" language -- it preserves larygeals fairly well, too) with vowel harmony, infixes, reduplication, incorporation of both the subject and object into verb flexion, and a similar bag of referent-pronoun-incorporation tricks for nouns. The ancient script is derived from the basic cuneiform syllabary (with a few determinatives for good measure), and the modern is basically Coptic with some borrowings from Hebrew. Consonantal inventory: p ph ps b m k kh ks g N t th ts d n r l w y s S lh (lateral affricate) h q N is written n-acute S is written s-acute Vowels: Front: i e E Neutral: i-bar, @, turned-a Back: u o O E and O are written e-acute and o-acute i-bar is written dotless-i @ is written with the regular schwa character turned-a is written a Words may contain Front and Neutral vowels or Neutral and Back vowels. As to texts, there's a partial translation of Beowulf, and the Babel Story. Chew on that while I scour my mind (and computer) for other delightful tidbits... --- Pb

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Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Paul Bennett <paul.bennett@...>
Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>Wenetaic