Br'ga (was Re: Non-humanoid langs)

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:31:32 -0400, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> writes:
>> ...
>> AFMCL,
> That's exactly the thought underlying the design of S11!  Clause is
> basically a serial verb construction of noun-verb pairs in S11.
>
> Interesting, do you have doc about Br'ga?
Nothing substantive. I have an alphabet / phonology, and I think somewhere
I've got a diagram of other slots in the main noun-verb complex, and some
notes on word order. Let me see what I can gather.

* * * time passes * * *

The alphabet / phonology is simple (but *is* in UTF):

i ü ű u ų
e ö ő o ǫ
á a å ą̊
'

/i y y_w u u~/
/e 2 2_w o o~/
/a A Q Q~/
/@/

b /b/
br /B\/
ch /tS/
d /d/
dr /r/
g /g/
gr /R\/
h /h/
k /k/
l /l/
ll /5/
m /m/
n /n/
ñ /N/
p /p/
r /r\/
s /s/
sh /S/
t /t/
tj /C/

Syllable structure is CV-only. Phonotactics are minimal, if any. Roots are
1 to 3 syllables long.

Morpheme order within words is something like:

Adverb-Plurality-Noun-NounModifiers-Mood-Verb-Aspect

Noun Modifiers are things like genitives, adjectives and maybe some other
stuff.

I think it's going to be topic-fronting, but much more word order is yet
to be devised.

There will be a significant pronoun and pro-verb set. I'm going to have
verb->noun derivational morphology for things like "place of x", "tool for
x" and several others. I think that in theory a "word" could get quite
Inuktitut-like.




Paul

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