Re: NEW LANG: Telek

Marcus Smith <smithma@...> wrote:


>This is the phonology for the conlang I've been slowly developing (or at
>least it's the most recent incarnation).

Glad you're sharing!

>Consonants:
>Aspirated Stop: p, t, k
>Unaspirated: b, d, g, ' (' = glottal stop)
Then is it the same as Pinyin and Navaho transliteration?
<p t k> = /p_h t_h k_h/ and <b d g> = /p t k/?

>/l/ and /r/ are in a sound symbolism relationship.  /l/ is typically found,
>but /r/ may be used to show negative connotations of all sorts.
I like this feature, though I don't know of any natlang which does such
a thing. Counterexamples welcome. (Plus the alveolar flap is so sweet a
sound, how could you make it negative?! :)

>Pitch-accent:
>
>Words start at a low pitch, and gradually raise until reaching the peak
>syllable.  Pitch remains high on every remaining syllable (usually only
>one).  Determining the peak is done by the following rules:

My suggestion on this and the rest of the phonology is, if you're going
to present it to people, use examples along with the formal rules. It
may be a test for the language, besides helping us get a first impression
of the rule in practice.

<greedy look> Now tell us about morphology and syntax!


--Pablo Flores
  http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html
  ... I cannot combine any characters that the divine Library
  has not foreseen, which in some of its secret tongues do not
  bear some terrible meaning. No-one can articulate a syllable
  not filled of caresses and fears; which is not, in some one
  of those languages, the powerful name of a god...
                   Jorge Luis Borges, _The Library of Babel_