Re: New Lang: Igassik

Marcus Smith wrote:

>I've started on a new conlang. The grammar is bearly touched at this point,
>but I'm having lots of fun with phonology. Telek was rather dull in this
>respect, so I'm making up for it now. (Okay, truth be told, I'm doing field
>work on a phonologically interesting language and I've been inspired. PIMA
>ROCKS!) I'm calling it Igassik for now, but the name will undoubtablly
>change since Igassik is the Telek word for it.>
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I like this a lot.  I'm also trying out a new lang. with somewhat simpler
vowel harmony -- only /i e a u o/, where a form can have either all front
vowels, or all high vowels, or all back, or all low. /a/ is outside the
system (perhaps only in affixes) but fronts or backs depending on the other
vowels.  A more interesting feature (to me) is that it will have vowel
deletion in alternate syllables; so for ex. its name can appear as either
/prevli/ or /pervil/, presumably underlying {perevili}.  That's as far as
I've gotten........
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