Re: Conlang puzzles (Was: Re: New monster word in Maggel ;))))

En réponse à "Thomas R. Wier" <trwier@...>:

> >
> > [m@'gE:l] It features again the "lengthening g" :)) . And |a| is
> reduced to
> > [@] like in many unstressed cases.
>
> Is the "lengthening g" a purely orthographic convention?
>
Synchronically yes. It's one of the ways to lengthen vowels (another is adding
a |o| *after* the vowel), and the only way lengthened diphtongues are marked.
Diachronically things may have been different in the past, although I frankly
don't know what diachronic process could have led to such a strange convention
(or maybe it was just a pure invention of some scribes to make their texts more
ornamented. In the uncial-based alphabet used to write Maggel (which is still
used nowadays, the speakers of Maggel seems not to like very much the plain
fundamental style :)) ), the |g| is indeed a letter easy to transform into a
piece of art :))) .

Christophe.

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