Re: Babel Text in Ayeri (With sound file!)

> > Here comes the Babel Text (Genesis 11:1-9) in Ayeri.
Very pretty and incredibly fluent.  How can you read those
long words so quickly?  I have trouble with my mostly
monosyllabic Jovian (although the mutations could have
something to do with it ;o).

Is there a trick to it?



> I like it when your sense of the words' pronunciation
> differs from mine; I very much admire languages that put a "spin," so to
> speak, on their vowels and consonants.
Wouldn't it be terribly boring if we all pronounced our
words the same?

When tracking the MP3 with the PDF text, I noticed the
surprising penultimate stress on those long words in -ea,
which I'm tempted to parse as antepenultimate as in
Quenya.  The Elvenness is palpable, though there's a
distinct taste of Polynesian to it.  :)

(Note: Seeing how the long words split up into morphemes
helps a lot, and also clarifies why the -ea words have to
be stressed on that e.  ;o)



> It's the same with
> Teonaht.  Memorizing a word requires me to merge "meaning" and "sound."
> That's hard to do if you are making up a new batch of words--for a
relay or
> for a translation game.
Then maybe you haven't yet found the perfect word for the
purpose...  That's why I find word-making such a tedious
task in a priori languages.  If you want every word to
sound "right" but not stolen from PIE stock, you're in for
a long, winding journey.



> I think you do it a disservice!  "Crappy"?  Also I don't think it's
all THAT
> nice sounding in the conventional sense of "nice."   It's full of
nasals, I
> noticed: "m" and "ng."
What's wrong with nasals?  I'd have to agree that ng is
not the prettiest of nasals, though.

I like all those /j/s, though.  Again, an Elven touch.



-- Christian Thalmann

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