Re: Pronouns revised and word generation

Date:    Wed, 2 Jan 2002 09:16:59 -0800
Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> wrote:
Pronouns revised and word generation

zebra= kehinekakwili =kehi "black" + neka "white +
kwili "horse"
This is fun!
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very nice indeed, with a definitely exotic feel :) are all the root words
C(S)VCV? what are the allowed consonants? no /p/?
you said you're a "logician" (what's that btw? sounds terrific) so did you
rationally build the patterns of root words and affixes? is it semi or wholy
logical?
when will your lang be online? i can't wait Patrick Dunn's new conlang to be
online too. it looks like this list is the field of an unprecedented wave of
advance of new, yummy afraustroloid conlangs lately :) it will nicely balance
with other phonological conlang categories like "my taylor is truely an elve"
("aernthël vethlunérin"), "peace may zebra-shield your spaceship" ("rhgevols
orms'vulzh"), "i love pinetrees and lakes" (ukkeliva taloini), "native where
there first", "randomly shaked the scrabble software", "i'm a barbarian but call
me a latin", "ever climbed the Dholagiri?", etc. (i hope noone takes offense, i
love them all!)

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Also, I realized that it was bad form to have a very
rare sound (the glottal stop), so I amend my reflexive
pronouns to aha-, ehe-, ...
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what's wrong with glottal stop? if your lang is kind of logically, user-friendly
oriented we know it's not advisable, but otherwise plenty of langs use it as
either a plain consonant (à la tahitian) or as a separator on the initial vowel
of a word (à la german). do you think that h is more stable than an intervocalic
glottal stop? the japanese intervocalic h has been dropped for w or 0 within a
word and is voiced into b in compounds.

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I also forgot to mention the "negative pronouns",
which negate the agglutinating verb: ana-, ene-, ...
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are pronouns the only words to have initial vowels? is it a specific tag for
affixes or grammatical morphems?

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Dana
Kalinida
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Mathias
www.geocities.com/kalatunu/index.htm

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