Re: Survey (a new one!)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 2, 1998, 2:13 |
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:19:02 -0700, Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> =
wrote:
>In "A Secret Vice", Tolkien remarked that the
>correspondence "vru" =3D "ever" had crept its way
>into every one of his languages, and I find the same
>thing happening with mine. For example, in each of
>my major conlang projects, the word for "in" or
>"inside" has consisted of a fricative followed by
>/i/ or a diphthong containing /i/:
>
> Messyen: thui
> Tadheka: zui
> Kosan: hi
> Tokana: hi, fi (earlier versions)
> Tokana: him (most recent version)
>
>Do other people find the same sort of thing happening
>in their conlangs?
The word for "planet" is very similar in many of my languages.
Niskloz: kelet
Jarek: k'elet
Kelwathi: keltha
Dev'errin: kel
Rynnan: kalla
Sortal: kala
Telarasso: kalnita
Similarly, many languages have similar words for "language".
Rynnan: tal
Cythin: tal
Sortal: tal
Jarrda: tal
Jaghri: tilra
Ziku: til
Rillintel: tyra
Lyzantura: tura
(Rynnan, Cythin, and Sortal are historically related to each other, but =
the
other languages are unrelated.)