Re: me again

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...


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