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Re: Animal Sounds like...

From:Diana Slattery <slattd@...>
Date:Friday, November 20, 1998, 17:43
Off the top of my head:

damabroh--horse
ykwa--chicken
kwermit--mouse
kokly--monkey
rakkydna--spider
yno--dove
nykanel--gull
kohsa--dog
yba--sheep
moltro--duck
feco--badger
vyo--cat
fulpa--cow
jyjak--hawk
marto--fox

that was fun.

Diana

Sally Caves wrote:

> Well, it would just be too tedious to reproduce the color test, so I'm > going to do a new one with animals. Because Teonaht has some residual (or > borrowed?) Indo-European features, this might be easy for some of you, so > I've chosen some animals that don't have IE roots to mix in with the few > that do. Those who've been reading my Teach Yourself First Lesson will > know at least one of these, but no fair going back to that. All of them > "sound" like the animal to my mind, now because of custom, and then when I > invented them. A couple were taken from the Human Engineering Laboratory > Language test, administered to me back in the seventies, and I simply > adopted their nonsense words for Teonaht. Hee hee! Afterwords, I'll give > you the gendered names of these animals, if you want, and you can tell me > what sounds they make in your language. > > Sixteen animals. It looks as though the rule for animal nouns is "a" or > "o" endings... > > damabroh /'dam@broX/ DAH-mah-bro(c)h > ykwa /'ikw@/ EE-kwuh > kwermit /'kwErmIt/ KWEHR-mit > tohda /'toD@/ TOE-thuh > kokly /'kukli/ KOO-klee > rakkydna /ra'kidn@/ rah-KEED-nuh > yno /'inu/ EE-noo > nykanel /'nik@nEl/ NEE-kuh-nel > kohsa /'koS@/ KOH=shuh > yba /'ib@/ EE-buh > moltro /'moltro/ MOLE-troh > feco /'feko/ FAY-koh > vyo /'vio/ VEE-oh > fulpa /'f^/p@/ FUHL-puh > jyjak /'ZyZak/ ZHEE-zhak > marto /'marto/ MAR-toh > > The sixteen answers, mixed up, are here: > > dog, cat, horse, cow/bull, lamb, sheep, fox, badger, > duck, hawk, gull, dove, chicken, monkey, spider, mouse. > > This should be an easy process of elimination. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Sally Caves > scaves@frontiernet.net > http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html > http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/contents.html > > Li fetil'aiba, dam hoja-le uen. > volwin ly, vul inua aiba bronib. > > This leaf, the wind takes her. > She's old, and born this year. > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++