Re: New H/G lang?

I wrote:
>>>>>>
Well, maybe I'm going to cut down the phono list anyway, it's a little silly.
Perhaps I'll do away with one dimension of my grid and make it a 3x4x3x4 grid
instead of a 3x4x2x3x4 grid.  Only trouble is, that cuts down the number of POAs
(and :. roots) instead of the number of meanings per root.  I want to cut my MOA
grid down to size if I can, but I don't want to break the idea of a grid.  Maybe
I could lose the "Ejective/Implosive/Click" section of the MOA dimensions,
giving 3x4x2x3x3.  That doesn't actually make much difference, though, does it?.

I don't find myself using the Palatalised series very much when I'm "riffing"
for roots, so maybe that can go, too, leaving just the following
differentiations:

Post-Labialisation:
     On
     Off

Part of mouth:
     Lips
     Teeth
     Palette
     Velum

Tongue "Shape":
     Front
     Back

Voicing/Emphasis:
     Reduced
     Normal
     Increased

Method:
     Stop
     Nasal
     Fricative/Affricate

This leaves me 164 consonants, which is better, but still a bit "out there".
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I could also move Labialisation and make it a lexical feature instead of a
grammatical feature, meaning that roots are defined by using the first three
dimensions above (plus two vowels), and grammatical markers are differentiated
just by the Method and Emphasis used.  This is then 12 forms of each of 32
syllables, (rather than 24 forms of each of 16 syllables), ie 1728 forms for
each of 32768 roots.  I'm still deciding whether it suits the lang better or
not, but as long as the basic idea is there, then I suppose I'll learn to be
happy.  What do y'all think?








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