Re: New Musical/Tonal Language: Nibuzigu

Hi!

Jeffrey Jones writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
> >Mixolydian, Dorian and Phrygian is documented here.  It is a tonal
> >language that is spoken, not a word-less lang:
> >
> >   http://www.kunstsprachen.de/s21/
> >
> >(Will sing the sentences later.  Perhaps... :-))
>...
> >=========================================================================
>
> I see some boxes in the examples in the SVC section. I'm not sure what you
> can do about it.
I suppose I use too many strange diacritics on the vowels.  For that
page, you probably need quite good Latin Unicode support.  Can you see
the tone marks in the first table that lists them?  Maybe a dotless i
+ strange diacritic is a bad idea, but the dot on an ordinary i
interferes and I strongly wanted to use the graphemes _a_, _i_, _u_.

> Using "mode" for "mood" is clever. It applies to the whole clause?
Reading the musical conlang thread here let the idea come up. :-)

The mood marking applies to the whole clause, yes.  You need at least
the verb and the subject to know the mode the clause is in.

> The constituents section could use some examples.
Ok, I will add some.  (There are too few examples in general...)

> Note that in my VOS sketch I also use verbs for adverbs (I'm not
> sure where that's documented though).
Ah.  I stole the basic idea from Chinese and combined it with my
beloved one-open-lexical-class conlang structure that most of my
engelangs use.

If you find the documentation of your adverbs, please share.

**Henrik