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Re: Sevorian

From:Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Date:Thursday, March 28, 2002, 8:01
 --- James Campbell wrote:
> After a break, Sevorian has now returned to the > Zolid Matters website (www.zolid.com/zm).
Well, finally! I'm very glad it's there after all. I have been waiting for it impatiently, and I must admit that I often tried the link for more info than just the message that it is going to be there some day! The reason is, I have always been fascinated by the idea of North Slavonic conlangs. I am the proud father of three of them (Vozgian, Motyak and Slopik), and I was delighted to discover that there actually were more North Slavonic conlangs, including Sevorian. The samples I had seen looked quite promising, and I was genuinely disappointed I couldn't find more about it.
> Your comments are welcome, but please bear in mind > that the project was unfinished and unpolished (and > is now unalive).
Does "unalive" mean "dead"? Or is there still hope that Sevorian will be revived some day? Anyway, I like it a lot, as you may have noticed. If I may nevertheless allow myself to a few remarks about the orthography: - I find the very frequent use of "ø" slightly disturbing. I have the same problem with my own Motyak language, where it represent approximately the same sound; as I started translating things, I noticed that there were just too many of them, which undermined the language's credibility. Right now I am considering to limit the use of this character or remove it entirely. - About the dotted "s" and "z": why not use hacheks instead? This is normal in any Slavonic language using the Latin script, except Polish, and does not present the average PC user with problems. - The alternative spelling, "sx" and "zx" is of course possible, but somehow I feel that reading become less fluent. - What was this dotted "h" supposed to sound like?
> James/Iakeb
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