Re: Enochian, also ritual language, was: The search...perfect language

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Steg Belsky wrote:

> I don't think i've ever used Thav....i'm Diasporan Ashkenazic, so i
> automatically equate "soft" Tav with Saf.  However, since none of the
> accents i'm commonly in contact with have a "soft" Dalet, Dhalet is the
> only one i know of (and my using it probably has something to do with
> learning Spanish, which has a similar [d] >> [D] softening).
> Although, in my bare-phonological-level planned conlang Judean, the
> softenings are [t] >> [s] from tav/saf and [d] >> [z] based on that, for
> a hypothetical dalet/zalet.
>
So Tav is always Tav except after a short vowel when it becomes Saf?

> >The church I attend has a Samoan minister and we always have a
> >Polynesian
> >hymn when the collection is being taken up, of which our hymnary
> >contains
> >three!  After three years I am still trying to master the
> >pronunciation of
> >these hymns.  The problem is trying to fit in all those vowels while
> >singing them!
>
> So...there are more syllables than the tune seems to allow?
>
Yes, the Samoan hymn seems to be worst because I keep on pronouncing all
the vowels and Samoan has a lot of elision.  I can still be halfway
through a line when the tune runs out. Niuean is not so bad, it seems to
have the same sound range as Maori, and like Maori, far less elision.

- andrew.

Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

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