Re: Phonological Relay Proposal

"H. S. Teoh" wrote:
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> Question: my conlang has a rule of prefixing e- to every proper name.
> Should I keep that convention, or just transliterate the sounds?
>
If I were you, I'd go with just transliterating the sounds, because you
won't be 100% sure if something is a proper name or not. The main point
of this is to see how the words were be spoken by speakers of your
language, not to adapt it into your language. That's a more complicated
thing, and a bit too intense for the likes of me to administer.

> Also, since there are no diphthongs in my conlang, sometimes some
> diphthongs would translate to two vowels (pronounced with a glottal stop
> in between) and sometimes just a single approximation (usually a long
> vowel). Also, very few consonant clusters are actually allowed; most of
> the time, native speakers tend to just drop out the less prominent
> consonant and lengthen the previous syllable. Lotsa mutations will happen
> here! :-)
That's what I like to hear. The mutations are what makes it fun.

--
Robert