Re: Workin' on some stuff.

I like this too.   It's kind of elegant.

It would be interesting to try out different roots to see which roots can
take ALL of the inflections you've mentioned.

And which take only some.

And how you can classify roots according to which inflections they take.

Jim



----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Garcia" <Barry_Garcia@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:22 AM
Subject: Workin' on some stuff.


> I've been messing around with my second conlang (the reason I havent
> described it, is because i wasn't ever settled on anything I liked). Then
> I thought of a system like the tri-consonantal system of Arabic and other
> semitic langs, and thought of this plan, which i'm not sure if it is
> similar to what semitic langs do or not, but I kind of like it (it's
> disgustingly regular , and very rough:)):
>
> ____________________
>
> Sounds: consonants: b, d, f, g, h, dZ, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, j, z,
> tS, S, ts
>                  vowels: a, i, u
> Roots: CCC (lets take a random group, ZMR for instance)
>
> Basic noun: CaCaCi - zamari
> Instrument: CiCiC - zimir
> Thing that does what root specifies: iCuCiC - izumir
> Adjective: CaCuCi - zamuri
> Infinitive: aCiCaC - azimar
> reflexive infinitive - CiCuCi - zimuri
>
> Tense endings:
>
> Past -am - azimaram
> pres. -ul - azimarul
> fut. -ad - azimarad
> past participle -ez - azimarez
> pres. participle -iv - azimariv
> conditional -iya - azimariya
> imperative -az -azimaraz
>
> So there we have it. Something I like, and I think is nice sounding.
>
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>
> This ain't a yes, this ain't a no, just do your thang, we'll see how it
> goes