Re: milimpulaktasin

Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
> En réponse à Robert Hailman <robert@...>:
>
> >
> > And they're both agglutinating, and they both only have suffixes. What's
> > that... uh... 5 similarities/identicalisms. (I just made that word up. I
> > like it.)
> >
> > I'm scared now. :-o
> >
>
> Well, I'm sure we can find differences :) . For instance in the morphology: Azak
> has quite a restrictive but original root syllable structure: (C)(V)C (yes, root
> syllables have mandatorily one consonnant, but one optional vowel before, and
> one optional consonnant before), with the additional constraint that only CC
> clusters are allowed, and only medially. It means also that all root end in a
> consonnant. As for suffixes, they all are of VC or VCVC for only :) .
>
> As for the writing system, the roots are written with a square-like alphabet,
> while the affixes are written in a kind of round-shaped syllabary (kind of,
> because in fact each suffiw has its own symbol, which means that each symbol
> stands for a VC or VCVC sequence :)) ).
>
> Now if you tell me that Ajuk has the same structure I'm gonna be very scared :)
Be scared. Not very scared, but scared.

Ajuk's structure is (C)(r,l,j)V(C), where (r,l,j) is only allowed after
dental, alveolar or postalveolar consonants. Besides that, CC clusters
are the only ones allowed, and only medially. There is also the
constraint that all roots end in a consonant, so root-final (I guess you
could say stressed) syllables are (C)VC. All affixes are VC, except for
the affixes that are consistantly final (person affixes in verbs, case
affixes elsewhere) which are V.

Ajuk used the Roman orthography, but I have considered an orthography
pretty much exactly like yours. What I came up with didn't really please
me, but...

So, what differences do we have? Right, no CC(r,l,j) clusters allowed in
Azak, roots are allowed to only have a consonant in Azak, suffixes of
just V are allowed in Ajuk, and they have different orthographies.

So, that's 4 differences, and a freakishly high number of similarities.
Yeah, no need to be *very* scared, but being somewhat scared seems like
the appropriate course of action. :-)

--
Robert

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