Re: Marmite and other "unique" foods

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> ObConlang:
>
> How do you all incorporate foreign words into your conlangs? Are they just
> changed to fit the phonology, or do you do something special to the word
> to mark it as foreign (especially when the word matches a words already in
> your language)?
        Most often I simply modify the words to fit the phonology. But I've
already toyed with the idea of using a special marker, especially when
the target language has declinations, so the marker can be used to
support the declination modifications. It appears to a limited extent in
Azak, where all roots must end with a consonnant, so that I always add a
j /j/ to foreign words that end in a vowel to make them Azak roots
(example: Marie /mar'i/: Mary -> Marij /mar'ij/).

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