On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:13:11 -0500, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
>Jeffrey Jones wrote:
>> I've been undergoing some confusion the past few days (I haven't been
able
>> to even do conlanging in awhile) and am distraught about the resulting loss
of
>> my car, so I hope somebody can help me with the MNCL5 numbers.
>>
>> I'm trying to use mostly borrowed words that more or less fit the
phonology --
>> no onset clusters, long vowels and diphthongs can't be followed by more
than
>> one consonant, and I forget what else. What I have so far is this:
>>
>> 0. nulo or ziro or ?
>> 1. mono or heno ?
>> 2. ?
>Duo seems obvious, unless syllables need to start with a consonant.
I'm afraid they do. The question is which. |q| [G] might work, but so far I've
restricted it to foreign words.
>> 3. sano ?
>If you're considering "sano" (from Chinese/Japanese "san"?) how about
>Japanese "mitsu"?
I thought about that, but it would have to be a cluster, since there's no ts)
affricate. I suppose it could be [mit:s)M]. Or rather [mit:s)o:] -- the |o| is
grammatically significant.