Re: Some derivational types of questions

On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 00:43:50 -0700 Clinton Moreland-Stringham
<arachnis@...> writes:
>     What do I do with the tense liquids (represented in the books by
> R
> and L, as opposed to normal r and l)? Would these develop any
> different
> than plain varieties? The tenseness is the difference between dentals
> (R,L) and alveolars (r,l). How would they mutate over time? Anyone
> have ideas, or examples from other langs?
.

How about having them become something interdental, possibly losing their
approximant-ness?

> as ae, pronounced like the vowel in French c'est. I'm not happy with
> the
> enormous number of homophones that are showing up! Anyone have ideas?
>
>     Thanks for your help, folks, ahead of time.
>
>     Clint
.

Why not go with the homophones?  You could have words that sound the
same, but have archaic-spelling differentiation in writing.  Or, you
could develop Chinese (IIRC) -like compounds for homophones, so, if for
instance, the words for "fire" and "language" were homophones, you could
have "hotfire" to mean "fire", and "speaklanguage" to mean "language".


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe."