Re: Nimrina phonology

Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> Herman Miller skrev:
>> Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
>>> Nice.  Do /K/ ~ /l/ also pattern as a voiceless-voiced pair?
>>
>> Currently, yes: ríva "yellow" + hlázi "tea" = rívalázi "green tea".
>
> Nice!  Maybe /l7 has an [K\] allophone?
I wóuld like to get [K\] involved somehow. Voiced stops have fricative
allophones, as in /dmázi/ [Dma:z_ji] "blue-green". Possibly /nidlu/
"violet" could be [n_jidK\u]. Or another possibility could be lengthened
/l/ between vowels.

>> I don't know if I've seen anything about Adûnaic. Was this in one of
>> the "History of Middle-Earth" volumes? It's possible I may have seen
>> this long ago, but I didn't have anything particular in mind when I
>> came up with the name Nimrína.
>
> Yes it can be found in "Sauron Defeated" aka "History of Middle-Earth
>  volume 9".  BTW the only thing approaching a grammar by T. of one of
> his languages that has been published.
I'll have to check that out. I don't think I've seen that before. If
anything, I might have been thinking of something like "Nimravidae", a
family of prehistoric cats.

> So what kind of people speak Nimrína?  I hope I haven't
> influenced your thought in some unwanted direction by this
> bit of trivia!
I've been thinking about that over the last couple days, and I've come
to the conclusion that the speakers belong to a secretive race of people
with fox-tails, best known in Scandinavia, where they inspired the
legends of the "huldre".

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