Re: A brief sketch of the Ga language

En réponse à Rik :

> >
>Noted and actioned. I had thought that making "strong" consonants all voiced
>might be a bit boring - hence the mixing up. I've now come to my senses and
>made the strong forms voiced - and added r, r', l and l' to the volatile
>consonant list to spice things up a bit.
Yep, I've seen it :) .

> >
>In my defense, I'll say that this is very much a sketch, and I doubt if the
>actual phonetic values will come to rest on their final values for a while
>yet - these things need to brew over time to see what's working and what's
>not.
True, but that doesn't mean you cannot put some X-SAMPA there :)) . After 
all, you already give precise descriptions :)) .

> >
>I agree - and I've done some thing about it. For now, I've settled on using
>native words to describe the various parts that make up the words, so now we
>get sentences on the webpage like: "At the core of every noun is the noun
>laxmal. This laxmal always starts and ends with a matalp or matalp cluster,
>and will have just one sakliq (nominalised verbs will have two sakliq and
>three matalp clusters). At least one of the matalp will be matretalpksult in
>nature."
>
>I hope that this will appeal to people who like their grammars a little out of
>the ordinary!
It's quite nice indeed :)) . In my grammar of Moten, I did it a little 
different: each grammatical term is introduced in Moten, but I use 
afterwards only the French translations.

> >
>Thank you. Your feedback has been invaluable, and I'm glad you've found
>something new to incorporate in your "monstrous" language.
LOL. Well, I don't know yet what it's gonna be. But it's probably gonna be 
there anyway :)) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.