Re: Sevorian

 --- 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
Kind regards,

Jan


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