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Re: debt, doubt, island, sword and dielects.

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, December 10, 1999, 2:10
On Thu, 9 Dec 1999 04:43:00 -0800 abrigon <abrigon@...> writes:
> > Anyone have dielects in their Conlang?
. Well, i haven't really done much for my Judean Romancelang besides phonological shift rules and a slight history sketch, but there are a few dialects. Standard Dialect: /b g d k p t/ have allophones [B G z x P s]. separate sounds: /S/ , /Z/ ; /f/ , /v/. 10 vowels: /a A<r> E e i ij o ow u uw/ (<r> = somewhat rounded). Archaic-sounding Dialect: (isolated communities) /b g d k p t/ have allophones [bb gg dd kk pp tt] in opposite placement from standard. /S/ allophones [S Z] ; /v/ allophones [f v]. There's also at least another dialect, where [B] has merged with /v/ and [P] has merged with /f/, but i don't know that much about it yet. It might be the same dialect, or another, which reduces the vowels to the five cardinals. There's also a dialect that doesn't distinguish the emphatics (pharyngealized) {x z} from their non-emphatic counterparts /t s/, which could be the same dialect, sometimes stigmatized as being "lazy". -Stephen (Steg) "Eze-guvdhab wa'hrikh-a tze, / "zhoutzii wa'esh," i eze-mwe." ___________________________________________________________________ Why pay more to get Web access? Try Juno for FREE -- then it's just $9.95/month if you act NOW! Get your free software today: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.