Re: Introductory Post

En réponse à Kallah <kallah@...>:

> New member, non-academic, currently working on a very loosely Semitic
> language for a novel.
Old member, non-academic, welcoming you ;))) .

>
> n'Deren (current working name) is a verb-subject-object language, with
> a singular, dual, and plural.
Just like Maggel, if you forget the fact that Maggel has two different
plurals ;))) .

 It has markers for complete/incomplete
> and tense (present, past, future), and a particular set of verb/phrase
> to indicate whether the action has or has not been completed, and
> whether that is a desired result. ('mâ'â yáîna' would indicated that
> the action in the immediately preceding verb has not been completed
> and is not desired to be completed. 'yáîna' alone would indicate that
> the action has not been completed and is desired to be completed).
> (á=/aw/ in caught, â=/ah/ in father, î=/ee/ as in feed, a as in cat.)
>
I know what you said about IPA, and that you find it basically useless, but if
you ever want to talk about sounds on this list, you're obliged to learn it.
The majority of the members of the list cannot do anything with the
descriptions as you give them. So as imperfect as it can be, the IPA is the
best solution here, and you'll have to make the effort to learn it.

> It uses an extensive system of both infixes and personal pronouns, the
> use of which is largely determined by relative social standing of the
> people conversing; pronouns are used in reference to higher-status
> people, infixes in reference to lower-status or among friends.
> Pronouns are also used in combination with infixes for emphasis: "I, I
> caught the gelfling!"
>
Interesting language. Is there a webpage for it yet?

> Otherwise, I'm currently interested in old Germanic languages,
> Byzantine Latin, and Japanese old and modern.
>
I thought so, seeing the reference to relative social standing ;))) .

Anyway, welcome again :) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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PS: sorry for sending this mail first to Kallah only. Kallah, your mail client
is set-up to send replies directly to you instead of the list. Probably
your "Reply-To" field is set to your address. You need to unset it, because if
you leave it like that it makes it very disruptive with the normal flow of the
list.

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