> 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.
While 'ai' is rarish in MHG, it's a diphthong in every instance I can think of.
Any counterexamples?
Andreas