Re: Phonological Relay Proposal
From: | taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...> |
Date: | Monday, September 11, 2000, 19:20 |
* Espero9@aol.com <Espero9@...> [000911 00:59]:
> Robert Hailman wrote:
> > Back in late June I had a brief conversation with Barry Garcia about
> > the idea of a Phonological Relay.
>
> In Druni transcription this would be:
>
> Bék én léyt djún áy héd é brif kanvaséyshen uít béri garsía ebáut tí aydíe áf
> é fanaládjikel ríley.
>
> It should be noted that all Druni words contain one accented vowel to
> indicate stress even if the word is monosyllabic. This a residual effect of
> an archaic Druni spelling convention. still in use although redundant.
This underlines another aspect of why such a relay is a great idea, I
had only the vaguest idea how Druni "felt like" before! Cool, I gotta
take a closer look :) Is there a webpage anywhere (too lazy to search)?
t.