Re: a bit of warNalyaN

> >
> > a o u @ i
>
> Why not use {e} for /@/?
Because...um...because...I'm an idiot?

Why didn't I think of that?

BTW do you know how to Ascii a lowered /E/?


> > q - qw (bloody hell...the one below velar...i forget...)
>
> Uvular
That's it...I was thinking pharyngeal but when I thought about it and
tried to articulate that I almost relieved my stomach of its contents...

>
> > Augmentative: -hya
> >         /to/ "lake" ~ /tohya/ "(inland) sea"
>
> How are /hy/ and /hw/ realized phonetically?  Are they simply /h/
> followed by a glide, or are they, say, palatal and bilabial voiceless
> fricatives?
>
/hy/ is palatal fricative but glides out; /hw/ is /h/ followed by the
/w/. In the other cases the raised /y/ marks palatalisation. And, in most
cases, the /w/ marks labialisation of the consonant, similar to many
British Columbia First Nations languages (examples, Lillooet, Shuswap and
Squamish {sqwhwu7mesh}).

> > Diminutive I: -ko
> >         /to/ "lake" ~ /toko/ "pond, pool"
> >
> > Diminutive II: - kocha
> >         /to/ "lake" ~ /tokocha/ "puddle"
>
> Do, Diminutive II is smaller than Diminutive I?
>
Yes, exactly so.

> > process of an action: -wa
> >         /maqak/ "to hunt" ~ /maqawa/ "the hunt, hunting"
>
> Is -k an infinitive ending?
Yes, that is the marker for infinitive I. There seem to be two inifintives
like in Estonian and Votic, like

"to run in a race is fun" uses Infinitive I, whereas
"I went to the store to buy a book", "to buy" is in Infinitive II.

I've not yet discovered how Warngalyang treats a construction like

"you should go to learn to read". Two Infinitive II's one after
another? Is it possible that there be an infinitive III?

Interesting side note: the name "Warngalyang" comes from the adjective
/warNalyaN/ which is derived from /warNa/ "raven", which is also their
name for themselves.

-------ferko
Ferenc Gy. Valoczy

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