Re: Can realism be retro-fitted?

Manayang Venkuyan (Herman),

Matahaniya ang Prambay Venkuyan <hmiller@...>:

> I've been wondering about the possibility of taking some
> of my existing languages and developing their historical
> background to make them more realistic and less
> artificial-seeming.
I've wondered how to do that many times before, too. I just
don't know what to change in Ayeri... The problem is that
it's as good as absolutely regularly, the phonetic inventory
is quite easy as well without any anomalies. The only
*really* irrealistic quirk is that the animate patient
marker, _-aris_ changes into _sira_ when used as a preverbal
article. I wonder where that might come from ... normally,
words aren't just reversed.

Yomeban,
Krisyán (Carsten)

--
"Miranayam kepauara naranoaris." (Kalvin nay Hobbes)
Venena, Sanam 9, 2316 ya 16:28:10 pd

(Monday, January 15, 2007 at 06:15:25 pm)

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