Re: Conlang puzzles (Was: Re: New monster word in Maggel ;))))
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 2, 2002, 20:31 |
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Quoting Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>:
> En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:
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> >
> > Well, Ebisedian doesn't quite have such convoluted phonological
> > oddities
> > as Maggel (btw, now that I think of it, exactly how do you pronounce
> > "Maggel"?!)
>
> [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?
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