Re: Telek -- Invent a Language

On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
> > I haven't done folk-etymologies for anything.  <rueful look>  That's
> > neat, though.
>
> It was on accident, too.  I'd made the word for "to sing/chant" be
> _kastí_.  Later, I discovered some assimilatory processes, among them
> [stS] -> [SS], which turned it to _kassí_.
<shaking head>  Theoretically Chevraqis is derived from Aragis using
Rosenfeld's "sounds" program, but I'm sure there's all sorts of stuff in
the derivations that look Really Wrong...not to mention Aragis is just
completely ugly.

> > I'm thinking of incorporating Tuvan/Mongolian throat-singing
>
> What's "throat-singing"?
A how-to page, though I haven't had much luck in the little practice I've
done:
 http://www.mmjp.or.jp/booxbox/nodo/how/how.html

And the website archive of the _Scientific American_ article thereon
(where I found out about it):
http://www.sciam.com/1999/0999issue/0999levin.html

YHL