Re: Unahoban language

Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:


>        Ok, first of all: it's my first conlang, so don't be too cruel
>with it :-)
>
>        I've settled the basis of a language called Unahoban. I'd put
>the IPA equivalence if I knew it O:-) I'll use it for a RPG project I'm
>doing with some friends. I've tried to be original, but I think that it
>has a few clear influences: Tolkien, spanish, and english. Maybe a few
>other that I'm not aware of :-) The funny thing is that I tried not to
>do some Tolkien-alike thing, but ... well, I really believe that I read
>too many times Tolkien literature and I'm "contaminated" (sp?) beyond
>hope :-)
>
>        You can check it at:
>
>        http://ceu.fi.udc.es/~robe/conlangs/unahoban.html
>
Looks interesting, with a nice sound.  Just a handful of quibbles:
1. "Vocal(s)" -- you mean "vowel(s)"
2. Is "c" pronounced as [k]? and then...
3. The use of the apostrophe is confusing-- you say it is pronounced as "k",
but it also serves to divide up accent groups, where I'd assume it isn't
pronounced at all.  Many would interpret it as a glottal stop.
4. Pronunciation of "lh"-- do you have in mind the Argentine/Andalucian [Z]
(like French j) version, or perhaps the Welsh voiceless ([K]  in XSAMPA I
think)?  Tolkien probably favored the latter.

>        What I learned doing this: my next conlang will have no
>conjugations, no number and no gender. It's a big headache to do that,
>and it never feels "right" to me %-) :-D
No no no no! You're rebelling against your moderately-inflected Spanish
heritage!! ;-)  We North Americans, OTOH, absolutely dote on complicated
inflections, since English has so few.....

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