Re: Devoid
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 18, 2006, 14:18 |
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On 6/18/06, Tristan Alexander McLeay <conlang@...> wrote:
> On 18/06/06, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> > gzb has a suffix "-ta" meaning "without, lacking".
> >
> > /Cun pwIm-ta/
> > region water-without
> > "desert"
>
> Pardon me, but how is that second word pronounced? Is the /w/ really a
> [u] (just phonologically a consonant), or the /l/ syllabic, hence
> /pwl=m-ta/?
I suppose you are reading with a font where 'I' (capital i) and 'l' (lowercase
L) look identical. /pwIm/ has capital I, IPA for an open
high front vowel as in [the dialects I'm familar with of] English
"trim", "pick", "skip"... The /I/ is the main vowel, /w/ a semivowel.
In the usual gzb orthography it would be the digraph "iq" or
the accented "ĭ".
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry
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