Re: New Lang: Igassik

H. S. Teoh wrote:

>Coolness. I noticed a certain difficulty in my conlang when pronouncing
>alternating rounded/unrounded vowels in adjacent syllables. Maybe I should
>rework the phonology...
I occassionally have difficulty pronouncing Japanese /u/ correctly
depending on what the previous vowel is. That's where the idea came from.

>[snip]
> > Misc:
> > Words may never have more than two syllables.
>
>?? Only two syllable words are ever allowed? Hmm, that's beginning to
>sound like it's getting close to Mandarin :-P
Except Igassik is going to have more morphology. Not much more, though.
Basically, I am going to do things like tense and plurality with ablaut and
infixation. Case and agreement are unnecessary. Definitely no gender. A
suffix or two will probably pop up eventually for derivational purposes.


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Marcus Smith
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