Christophe sekagle:
>Is Tallefkeul nominative?
Ergative.
>Or add some tone sandhi rules!!! They are one of the lovely
complications of
>many tone languages ;)))) . My Itakian is packed with them (but it's
packed
>with all kinds of sandhi anyway ;))) ).
You're cruel. That would just about destroy all meaning that the tones
carry. Unless, of course, I can make the pre-sandhi form somewhat
predictable. I think I'd have to add two more tones: mid-falling and
mid-rising. I'll call them Down and Up respectively, just for quarks. And
I'll have to look at various tone systems. Does anyone have a boffo place
to find this information?
>The first example of a word containing this
>feature is |a fre|: the first, which is pronounced [@ fReId], with a
>phonemic /d/ which is not represented in the writing at all!!!
Are there no bounds to your spite? *sigh* I simply don't have the
patience to reach your level of irregularity. Perhaps I should overdose
on laxatives.
Laimes,
Wright.
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