Callistic revisited
From: | Andrew Smith <hobbit@...> |
Date: | Saturday, May 8, 1999, 4:17 |
For the sake of Comparative Constructed Indo-European linguistics I can
add:
Pites, egend vilqos trer ekhoom!
>
> paatar, cocruzti welhus-cos trems ahams -tas
> father, slew wolf the(this) three horses the(those)
>
> > Phyxthry, vylqh ngengyth threim hechvos!
This endearing little critter lurks around the back of my collinguistic
organ. It has undergone a revival due to its use in a correligion I'm
working on. The name I'll give for it is Vekhomos (lit. 'we speak').
Although its phonetic changes are adhoc, abeit consistant as much as I
have made it, it seems to be a satem language (k > s). The original
script it is written in is Aramaic, hence q used before back vowels in
transliteration instead of k, and a system of sandhi based on Sanskrit.
(final stops become voiced before other voiced sounds, collapse of final
s and r, etc.)
In comprehension, Vekhomos seems to lie somewhere between Callistic and
Telarian.
- andrew.
Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
"Break someone's leg."
- Old Orc Saying.