Re: Miapimoquitch text: Eye Juggler (long)

Dirk Elzinga wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 11:27  AM, Roger Mills wrote:
>
(snip gruesome variants verions)
> > However, rather than ponder new animal analogues, for the moment
> > I simply snitch/use "peya" and "tapun" ("tavun"?) for Coyote and
> > Cottontail,
> > and adapt <quya> 'pine sap' > huya or kuya 'resin, (sticky) sap of
> > certain
> > trees' (which will probably lead to an "amber" analogue, then to a
> > tech.term
> > for fossil ~ -ized.  An unending process........).
>
> Cool. So there will be Miapimoquitch loans in Kash!
They will be credited of course, but let's think of them more as amazing
coincidences. Exactly what sort of animals they'll be is another
question......More attention to your text caused these changes: peya [p1ja]
more likely > Kash poya, tapune ['taBun1] > tavun, quya [Nuja] > ñuña
[JuJa].

>
> > Minor question:
> >> 1.  [s1'piD1 ?i ?a'p1ja j1'hamm1Ga "1s1'p1G1~: ?i ?a'taBun1]
> >>      sepite i apeya ehammeka esepeken i atapune
> >>
> > Where does the initial [j] on ehammeka (and a few other cases) come
> > from?
>
> Hmmm. The idea was that initial [j] served to resolve hiatus, but later
> I introduced [?] for the same purpose. It seems to divide up this way:
> if the high vowel is introduced by the morphology, [j] is the hiatus
> avoider. If the word is vowel-initial, glottal stop is used. I might
> just chuck the glide altogether, or learn to live with producing
> inconsistencies. Both have their appeal ...
>
I had begun to suspect as much. I suspect the rule will be hard to maintain.