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Re: Analyzing Phonology

From:Bryan Maloney <slimehoo@yahoo.com> <slimehoo@...>
Date:Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 19:44
--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Dirk Elzinga <Dirk_Elzinga@B...>
wrote:

> Actually we do agree. My point was that taking this list of words, > which was arrived at intuitively and without conscious design, and > subjecting it to phonological analysis would in fact reveal just > the kinds of consistencies that you talk about. The exercise of
This is exactly how I started a Praxian phonology. I took every deity name, every personal name, and every place name I could find and mined them for information.