Re: Tam Lin translation exercise

>ZBB game again: Anyone care to give me a name for Lizardman? Phonemes are
>/d d: z z: J\ J\: j\ j\: g g: G G: G\ G\: R R: i i: i\ i\: M M: 7 7:/
>(alveolars are actually laminal). Syllable structure is (C)V(C), though the
>initial C occurs in something like 90% of syllables, and the final C in
>something less than 40%. There are no diphthongs. Word structure is one or
>more syllables. Just about any legal string is valid as the name since the
>vocab is so poorly developed right now.
A name of a person? Hmmm...
/'J\7di\gMR:/
/Giz:'d7j\7/
/'G\7:R:i\/
/'idi:g7i\/

(If geminate C count as two, just drop the offending lenght marks.)

However, I can't really offer anything up for the game at the moment, since
there's still a couple of largish holes in uwjge to fill (eg. noun-class
morphophonology and finalizing the rules for permissible root-medial
consonant clusters), preferrably with something else than "anything goes."
However, when I get them done, I could well dish hundreds of semantical
entries up for this game - I've bilt up quite a large "lexicalization
queue". :) So you'll either have to wait, or have someone else throw up the
next request.


>It's bloody tricky to conform borrowings to the Lizardman phonology.
>Paul
Yeah, probably. Something like [ralf] seems almost impossible to retain in a
recognizable shape. However, that phonology surely cannot be the extent of
their articulatory skills? Surely at least unvoiced sounds are possible to
produce?

John Vertical