Re: Conlang dialects
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, October 3, 1998, 3:25 |
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On Fri, 2 Oct 1998 14:15:09 -0300, Pablo Flores
<fflores@...> wrote:
>I've finished my quite thorough revision of Draseleq and I hope to
>upload my new webpages soon. In the meantime I've doing some work
>on dialects. I was curious: do you folks take dialects (or any kind
>of language varieties) into account?
Olaetyan has dialects which differ in phonology, and to a lesser extent,
vocabulary and morphology. The Lerarekh [le'rarEx] dialect has a simpler
phonology; for instance, "ph" and "f" are both pronounced as [f], "bh" =
and
"v" as [v], "lh" and "y" as [j], and "x" and "z" as [z]. However, =
Lerarekh
has two different sounds corresponding to [x] in the standard dialect: =
[x]
and [kh] (aspirated k), and initial "h" (silent in the standard dialect) =
is
always pronounced in Lerarekh. The Yudauquan dialect preserves some =
archaic
features; most notably, the letter "h" is pronounced [f] or [v]. Other
dialects have different phonetic variations.
The standard dialect has a single verb paradigm which is used for the =
vast
majority of verbs. Many of the other dialects preserve the original three
conjugations.