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

daniel andreasson wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Yes, I've noticed that too. I've started work recently on a language
with a Polish/German-inspired orthography, tho it's not as cool as some
things Carlos has done.

> { 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.
{ j } is the palatal consonant is Ajuk, and I do use { -ij } to
represent /i/ at the end of the root forms of words. This is because, in
Ajuk, root forms can't end in vowels other than /i/, and to be
orthographically consistent, no root forms can end it vowels, so I use {
-ij }. It's just as well, as it does turn out /ij/ when another vowel
follows.

For example,

zorkij "camera": /zorki/
zorkijas "cameras": /zorkijas/

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Robert