Re: Babel text in da Wial suin Basa: 'De ina Babel suin Tuam'

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 01:30:33 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>'Da Wial suin Basa' ('language of the world') in the preliminary name
>of my new conlang (project name S9).  It is quite ad-hoc, so don't hit
>me.  And it is very normal for a conlang of mine... :-)
>
>http://www.theiling.de/projects/s9/
>
>It's IE, Germanic, a descendant for modern High German with a lot of
>influence of a whole bunch of other languages, especially
>East-Westfalian Low German, Africaans, Mandarin Chinese and
>Indonesian.  And occasionally several others.
Sounds interesting. I took a look and noticed this:
- the second symbol for "u" only displays a question mark. Probably wrong
unicode number.
- "ai" is NO diphtong in High German! (Ok, there are rare exceptions, but
generally, it is not!) Use "ei" for [aI] instead.
- It would be advisable to have a "eu" diphtong (for [oI]) which is quite
frequent in High German.
- I could very well imagine that the "r" (voiced uvular fricative in High
German) merged into the nearby "ch" [x] (as in "Bach"), producing a sound
that sounds like a glide from the original "r" to "ch". This would explain
why there is no separate "r" anymore.

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