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Re: Nimrina phonology

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Saturday, August 19, 2006, 2:23
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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