Re: Finally delurking, and some info on Ciktal

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Arnt Richard Johansen wrote:
> > The idea is that the writing system to a certain degree reflects
> > morphological boundaries.
>
> Ah!  Okay, so if _dosam_ had been a single morpheme, would it have been
> written as _do-sa-ma(rev)_?
Probably.  For instance, I have the nouns "edam" 'jacket, thick shirt',
which is written "e-da-ma(rev)", and "sermam" 'hybris', which is written
"se-re(rev)-ma-ma(rev)".  Both are singular and in the inanimate (neuter)
gender, and the last syllable has nothing to do with the animate-plural
inflection "am".

> The Kassi syllabry sometimes reflects morphology, depends on the
> individual's preference.  Uatakassi has three vowels, i a & u.  The
> syllabry contains characters for CV and CLV (e.g., kla).  There is also
> a character for L by itself (for historical reasons).  In addition,
> there are 7 diacritics (placed under the character), they are: Long
> vowel, -f, -s, -z, -v, -n, *, * indicates gemination of the *following*
> consonant, so ka(*)-ta represents _katta_.  With the exception of long
That sounds very nice and messy, just the way I like it. :)  Do you have
any pics?

> Flabil kusal Ulku subaaz piblalaiua?
> F-   labi-l        kus       -al  Ulku subaa-z   pi-blala-iua
> Past-give-3SingIrr man's.name-erg Olko who? -dat G7-thing-your
            ^                                      ^
I don't quite understand this.  Does Uatakassí have two gender systems,
one for verbs and another for nouns?

> > By the way, thanks to taliesin and Nik Taylor for informing me that the
> > Conlanger Code is in version 1.1.
> That wasn't me, I don't use the code.  :-)
Of course not, it was Cristophe Grandsire.  Silly me!

--
Best regards,
Arnt Richard Johansen

Reply