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

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, October 8, 2004, 6:27
Quoting "Pascal A. Kramm" <pkramm@...>:

> 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

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