Re: Esthetics

Hey!

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 21:07, B. Garcia wrote:

 > This came up a bit recently, but i'd like to know more
 > from others.
 >
 > How do you all determine the esthetics of your conlangs?
 > Do you have a formal system of rules governing
 > combinations of vowels, consonants, dipthongs, etc. etc.?
 > Or do you just go by "feel"?

<snip>

Basically. For Ayeri I knew it should have many nasals and
loads of a's to get a slightly Austronesian feeling into
it. I also said there may not be any consonant clusters,
except C+[l, 4, y]. Then, after a while, [mb], [nd] and [Nk]
crept in -- [Ng] already existed. Because this didn't sound
bad and was still acceptable according to my concept, I
also allowed this. Then, I suddenly began to introduce
words containing C+[j]. This was OK in between syllables,
but still there was a rule that at the beginning and the
end of words, there may not be any consonant clusters. I
started to break my rule and decided to have words with
C+[j] at the beginning as well -- though up to now, only
[tj], [nj] and [sj] are common. I still haven't got
clusters containing nasals at the beginning of words.
Still, AI-langs contain clusters that are not allowed in
Ayeri because words may only end in [m, n, N, l, 4, a, e,
i, o, u, Ai), Ei)] and [Oi)] for example.

And now I have to do a bunch of Maths and History for
school.

--
Edatamanon le matahanarà ea 99:49-26:9-7:12-42 ena C.T. --
This letter was written on 117:57-30:9-7:14-50 T.C, which
is 01/27/2005 AD in our time ... hoping that at least the
date works correctly now)

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