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Re: Umlaut (was: More questions)

From:Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
Date:Thursday, November 27, 2003, 8:11
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:19:13 +0000, Stephen Mulraney
<ataltanie@...> wrote:

> Paul Bennett wrote: > >> My still unnamed project (provisionally WC8, de facto, it seems) has >> vowel > > I must say, every time I see the name _WC8_, I think you're trying to > outdo > my _ML4_ :) (also unnamed, also making excessive [ab]use of unicode) >
Well, it's a complex nominegenesis, to be honest. Well, not complex, but somewhat long. My first conlang (or more properly my first "mature" conlang project, my first conlang was an Auxlang, Polyparlisho, created after reading The Loom Of Language) went for a while without a name, before becoming named Wenetaic. Side projects were Wenetaic A, B and C. Wenetaic C was interesting, and developed into WC1, WC2, ... WC6, WC6a, WC7 and finally WC8. All of the WCx projects started (and mainly ended) life as collections of phonemes, and romanisation schemes (WC6a was a cyrillicisation scheme), all inspired largely by discussions on this list. WC8 is the most electic collection of phonemes I've put together, except for two aborted projects, mQlò and the language which bore the name Thagojian at the time (what you see me posting recently is more properly Thagojian C). mQlò contisted of clicks, lateralisation of clicks, prenasalisation of clicks (two kinds), four vowels, phonemic nasalisation and phonemic tone. The original Thagojian had 224 (or 244? I forget) consonantal phonemes (including valid homorganic consonant sequences) and two vowels. Both were a priori. My other main project, Meinian, was ad-hoc semi-postiori, vowel-rich and fairly boring. It was actually the source of some of my most substantial and complete translation excersizes (since vocab items were more or less made up on the spot and there were very few derivational operations), but I've lost my notes over the course of several PC moves and rebuilds. Paul

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