Re: Callistic revisited
| From: | Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 11, 1999, 2:32 |
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On Sat, 8 May 1999, Padraic Brown wrote:
> > Pites, egend vilqos trer ekhoom!
>
> Is this VSO word order natural, or used simply to keep things lined up? I
> also assume that the doubled vowel is, as in Telarian, long.
>
I use VSO for Vekhomos, it is not necessarily the natural IE order. The
doubled vowel is the best way of transliterating long vowels in email.
>
> How has the accentuation fared? I haven't got enough Telarian yet to
> figure this out, excepting that enclitics cause the accent to shift.
>
I don't think the accentuation shifts in Vekhomos. It seems to remain in
the stem.
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
"Break someone's leg."
- Old Orc Saying.