Re: New language Noygwexaal
| From: | Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 25, 2005, 7:40 |
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:20:25 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
>Quoting Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>:
>
>> On Mar 24, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Roger Mills wrote:
>> > Geoff Horswood wrote:
>> > I'm trying to
>> >> turn all of the fantasy language stereotypes around, so we have a
>> >> fairly
>> >> fluid, "elvish" sounding goblin tongue, a guttural elf-language full
>> >> of
>> >> clicks and stops, a highly aspirated, "breathy" dwarf-tongue, and so
>> >> on.
>> >> Not sure what I'll do with the humans of that realm.
>>
>> > Wha?? Are you Tolkien's evil twin? the un-Tolkien? :-))))) (obviously,
>> > the
>> > humans in such a case would speak...hmm, Russian? Thai? how contrary
>> > do you want to be!? :-))))
>>
>> Aren't the |_h| digraphs in Tolkien's Dwarf-language (Khuzdul)
>> aspirated stops? I.e., not /xuzdul/.
>
>That's right; /k_huzdul/. The aspirated-unaspirated distinction in
voiceless
>stops is perhaps Khuzdul's most exotic phonetic feature compared to other
>Tolkienian languages.
>
> Andreas
Oh. I'd always read it as /xudzul/. [sigh]. Right. The Dwarves will
speak a tonal language! :D
Tolkein's evil twin? That has possibilities... ;)
Geoff
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