Re: milimpulaktasin

Robert Hailman wrote:

> Well, Pimak has a pretty simple phonology, so it'd be easier
> than others. You're lucky that way. :-)
Heh. Yeah, the biggest problem's the very long words, which
are actually pronounce like very long words, stressed pretty
much like Quenya (antepenultimate, unless the penultimate is
followed by a cluster:

/milimpu'laktasin/ but /titusulkiwpa'xumnik/.

Fortunately, Swedish does kind of the same thing with compounds,
tho the stress is both in the beginning and the end and follows
different rules than Pimak.

> Hmm - yeah, this could be the one situation where there's an
> advantage to one type of a phonology over another when it comes
> to artlangs and the like - when I started working on Ajuk, I
> never thought I'd have to be able to pronounce it correctly. ;-)
:)

> > My favourite all time high best recorded conlang ever is
> > Pablo Flores' "G'amah Hymn" where some trolls sing some kind
> > of battle hymn. Very funny! :)
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/finis_stellae/ng/lng/gamah/gamah_hymn1.html
> > is the address for that one.
> Hee hee! That's GREAT! I must've listened to it like 5 times in
> a row. It's surreal. Great wook Pablo!
And he manages to pronounce the whole thing correctly as well.
That's even more amazing.

D Tse wrote:

> What about the "hanleni halsen" thing in Valdyan?
Yes, I like that too. Very melancholy to say the least. And the
songs in Teonaht are very nice too, two voices and everything. Oh,
and the poems in Asiteya. They're great!

||| daniel

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