Re: Changes of conlangs and their speakers (was Re: Skerre Play Online)
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 21, 2006, 20:14 |
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Hallo!
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:07:53 -0400, Paul Bennett wrote:
> Thagojian has been rebuilt from the ground up several times.
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> First, it was a consonant-rich, vowel-poor monstrosity of Techian
> proportions, vaguely Nostratic, with morphological processes centered on
> shuffling vowels (in a Semitic way) and masses of consonant mutations (in a
> way similar to but more insane than Celtic). I *think* there were 288
> consonantal phonemes, some bi- or tri-segmental, and 3 vowels, /i/, /A/
> and /Q/. The orthography was perfectly regular, but horrific (including
> s-overdot for /x/ as I recall).
Yes, I remember that beast. I think it wasn't a bad idea to revise it.
It was indeed quite similar to Tech, and it tells a lot that Tech never
really went anywhere. Tech went through numerous build-and-tear cycles,
with ever new variations on the theme of a huge consonant inventory, and
barely anything beyond consonant phonology ever being developed. Haven't
heard of Danny Wier for two years, BTW.
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