Re: Introducing Mashish
| From: | Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 20:33 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 7:45 AM
Subject: Re: Introducing Mashish
> On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 06:54:32AM -0800, Heather Rice wrote:
> [snip]
> > syllable structure is almost excusively CV, and short
> > vowels are not pronounced at the end of a word. If
> > there is a short vowel ending a word, it causes that
> > entire last syllable to not be pronounced. So
> > "Kulok`u" is pronounced "Kulo", but "Kulok-" is
> > considered to be the noun's root.
>
> Interesting. So the written word is different from the spoken word?
This could easily happen in a language where final syllables were dropped.
For example, a word might once have been "carethon", now pronounced
"careth", but the "on" is still important, as there are a number of
inflected forms: "carethona", "carethontena", etc. that are now "carethon",
"carethonten", and so on.