Re: CHAT: YAC: or more exactly: yet another conlang sketch

Carlos Thompson skrev:

> Modals: (present, past, future)
>  positive indicative: pá /pa/, pé /pe/, pov /pow/
>  negative inidcative: ýr /9Yr`/, ár /ar`/, ér /er`/
>  interrogative: cé /ke/, cij /ki/, cov /kow/
>  irrealis: ah /V?/, eh /E?/, oh /O?/
>  potential: sø`n /s9n:/, sy`n /syn:/, sùn /sUn:/
If there is one thing to say about your langs, Carlos,
it is that your orthography is always so cool! You go
all the way. I wouldn't have the guts to do so. I'd
forget how it's pronounced in a sec.

{ ýr } for /9Yr`/, { pov } for /pow/, etc. The most beautiful
word is { cij } for /ki/. I think I'll adopt the { -ij } for
words ending in [i] in Rinya. And I might just change the
palatal consonant { y } to { j } as well, and save the { y }
for the vowel.

I was very impressed by your artistic reform of English
orthography, even though I didn't say anything at the time.

> Personal pronouns: (unnumbered, singular, dual, plural)
>   Note that animates use nominative for the sobject of intransitive
> verbs, while inanimates use absolute for the subjects of intransitive
> verbs.
Aha. So you have a split-ergative lang. Where exactly is the
line drawn between animate and inanimate?

Come to think of it, this is almost like an active / split-S lang,
since the split only applies to intransitives, but with a very
unusual reason for the split; animate / inanimate.

Could you clarify this system a bit further? It seems really
interesting.

       [ -- snip pronominal system and basic syntax -- ]

daniel

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