Re: profile

En réponse à Stone Gordonssen :


>Okay, but you'll not find anything surprising here. They are toys for my own
>amusement. The examples below make no attempt to use SAMPA.
Too bad, I'd have liked to see how to pronounce some things.

>Example
>"Will you give me the book which you wrote?"
>"tatapwi hu shato ho wh’li tyofatwi h’."
>[write-past-you (modifier) book (object) to-me give-future-you (question)]
Interesting. How do you pronounce the question particle h´?


>Nenshar was an experiment to see if an assertion by Jack Vance in Languages
>of Pao was viable: an agglutinating language consisting of objects and their
>associated states. It is primarily OSV, with some flexibility, and uses 34
>phonemes: 5 pure vowels plus 4 diphthongs, and 29 consonants. Syllables of
>roots can be CV, VC, CVC, or VCV.
>"Will you give me the book which you wrote?"
>"koned nepu shunesa akop shuneth konesir shunesev akal."
>[book-in-focus pen-in-use hand-your-active time-indefinite-past
>hand-my-in-anticipation book-your-in-motion hand-your-in-volition
>time-indefinite-future]
Wow! Was the experiment a success? :)

Interesting, you make languages to test some ideas, like I do. It looks all
pretty interesting. Glad to have you here then! :)

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.