Re: Help with US SW langs + new lang

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Christopher B Wright wrote:

> Frank Valoczy sekalge
> <snip the phonology stuff>
>
> That phonology looks very scary to me (with experience in very few
> languages, of course, so I don't know a whole lot about sounds).
> Generally, the common sounds (between languages) are the easier ones to
> pronounce, though the way I said it is sort of backwards. I myself try
> for simpler sounds. That isn't to say that strange sounds aren't
> interesting and beautiful, just that you may want to simplify later
> versions of the language via sound changes.
With respect to the Madzhi phonology, I took the Mansi phonetic stock and
evolved it in a way which would show an influence from both languages
encountered on the long journey and from Halkomelem. The original Mansi
phonology is as follows:

Vowels:

u: o: e: a: u i o a A @ y & 2 I

Consonants:

p t c k m n J N l L r s s_j w j G x tS S q

and various (some quite complex) consonant clusters. The phonemes and
clusters were changed in a systematic way, allowing also for effects of
the following vowel if it's front or back and so on.

>
> I'd be interested to see more of Madzhi, particularly the morphology.
>
That's being worked on, and hopefully soon I'll have enough ready to
present, but for the moment my primary computer is being a git, and I'm
using a 286 at the moment, dialing into the Vancouver Freenet to do my
e-mail, which is about the extent of my current net access.

Cheers, Ferko