Re: CHAT: Pater Noster in Skuodian

Pavlik, privjet!

Thanx for submitting this text. I think both the language as its history are a
wonderful piece of work. As I mentioned a few months ago, the ideal
North-Slavonic conlang should IMO contain Baltic or Finno-Ugric elements rather
than Germanic ones. I would have done it myself if I had known more about
Finnish. Now you filled in that gap, and the result is great.
I'm curious what our friend Ferko the Uralist has to say on the subject.

I particularly like the name of the language - Skuodian. It's teasingly
natural! Could you tell something about its etymology?

I have a few remarks, though.

- jensiik "people" - where does that come from? I associate it rather
  with "jazyk" (Polish "je,zyk"), meaning "language, tongue".

- 'sooue' < *suuoue - are all these vowels really vowels? Or is the u actually
  a semivowel, like Belorussian u-grave? In that case you might consider to
  spell it /w/ (a change that I consider applying to Vozgian, to decrease its
  "vowely" character). On the other hand, I like "uo" as a diphtong.

- Oma priidie kaisarriiko tuojo - same thing. Is "ii" a long "i" or a diphtong?

- tuojo vs. kad'uodennuoj - I would expect either "tuoj" or "kad'uodennuojo"

Did you ever see the Paternoster site? There you can find the Pater Noster in a
lot of conlangs, including three North Slavonic ones (Nashina, Seversk,
Slavëni): http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/index-uz.html

Carry on the good work! More, more!

Best regards,
Jan



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