Re: Conlang in planning: Tarsyanian

Hi!

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:28:46 +0200, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:

>Hmm, most of these appear as question marks, so these equations do not
>really help, because it's just ambiguous.  I assume it's better on my
>other machine, but you will probably have to reckon on some letters
>being mangled for some list members.
The mail is also on up on my website:
www.beckerscarsten.de/conlang/tarsyanian. Set your browser to UTF-8 and it
should work.

>Did Ayeri have tense?  I forget.
Yes. Even more than Germanic languages. "ca-" is near past, "ma-" is past,
"va-" is remote past; "pa-" is near future, "se-" is future, "ni-" is remote
future.

>I like these!  A few details are found in my own conlangs, so I'm
>looking forward to seeing more in order to compare the realisations.
>:-)
Ha, but first I need to get behind the word-derivation stage. I'm still not
too happy with my changes, there are far too many nasal vowels and the
palatal stops don't go nice with everything so that there is some kind of
palatal and nasal spreading at the moment in order to be able to pronounce
the words :/ Maybe c > k / [+back] etc.? And {+nasal vowel} > {-nasal vowel}
when in the same syllable there is already a nasal vowel? I wonder how I can
tell Zounds (http://zounds.artefact.co.nz, it's nifty!!) to do that. Also,
the version of Zounds I have (2.2) does not allow s\ and c\ as well as most
of the lax vowels.

Carsten

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