Re: Conlang T-shirt, was: Re: London Boink: minutes (fwd)

Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:
> Etcetera; obviously, no repeats (if everyone does this tiny
> translation exercise
Hmm, let me try it in Watakassi'

Your language goes here
Launi'lma bli'v wasagga' dliwa
[lAu'nel'mA 'blev wAsa'g:A dr\iwA] - where ' indicates high tone, and
  [r\] indicates alveolar approximate
Launi'-l-ma       bli'-v   wa-sagga'   dliwa
Be.at-3SIrr-Prosp here-LOC G6-language your
"Your language will be here"

I've decided to make an orthographic change, I've eliminated all
hyphens, so that clitics like _dliwa_ are now written as normal words,
except that they lack an acute

bli', here, is derived from biili', formed from bii- (place of) and li'
(this), hence "this place"

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