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Re: milimpulaktasin

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 2, 2001, 9:03
En réponse à Robert Hailman <robert@...>:

> > > > Well, mine doesn't please me either (you can have a look at it in my > homepage, > > Azak is one of the three langs I have things on the page about. > Everything's in > > French though...), but it fits the character of the language nicely... > > I'm looking it over as I get the chance. My French is utterly dismal, > but amazingly enough I can read your home page fairly easily. It's kinda > freaky. (here we go again!)
:) Many people already told me that my page was easy to read, even for people who have only a sketchy knowledge of French. As I wanted my style to be easy to understand in my webpage, I take it as a great compliment.
> > > > What about your Roman orthography compared to Azak's transcription? > The Roman > > transcription of Azak uses the letters with their IPA value (so <j> is > /j/), > > except that it has no /h/ and the digraphs <sh> and <zh> mark /S/ and > /Z/ > > respectively (nothing very original I'm afraid...). > > Bingo! The same, pretty much. It agrees with the IPA in that <j> is /j/, > but it has no /h/ (or /w/), so it has digraphs - <th>, <sh>, <zh>, <kh>, > and <gh> represent /T/, (/D/ intervocalically) /S/, /Z/, /x/ and > /whatever voiced velar fricative is.../ >
/G/ (in Sampa at least :) ). Those are basic transcriptions anyway. I think there must be quite a few conlangs out there with the same transcription system :) .
> > Ah, here we go. Ajuk is (somewhat highly) agglutinating also, with no > difference between verbal and nominal roots - but that's about where it > ends. Ajuk has an IE case system. Head-final, SVO, verbs agree with the > subject in gender and number, and also have suffixes for tense, mood, > aspect, etc. Adjectives agree with the noun in gender, case, and number. > Beyond Nom/Acc/Dat it has Genitive, Instrumental, Vocative and Ablative. > > Well, I feel alot better now! >
Me too :) .
> > Hmm. Ajuk is my first language worth mentioning too - I made a few > attempts when I was younger, but they didn't get very far and I cringe > when I look at them. Amazingly enough, I started working on Ajuk in > earnest when I found this list and began reading linguistics books, > too... uh oh, I'm scared again. ;-) >
:)
> But over all, it's good that once we delved beneath the surface we found > some differences. Otherwise we would have had to fight to see who gets > to keep their language. ;-) >
He he, the oldest conlang wins priority :) . Since Azak was created when the list didn't even exist yet... :)))) But well, there is enough place in the world even for look-alike conlangs :) . Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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Robert Hailman <robert@...>