Re: First Sound Recording of Asha'ille!

Hi!

Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
> Arthaey Angosii isnerq:
> > Emaelivpeith Benct Philip Jonsson:
> >
> >>(I don't know how you pronounce your nick,
> >>but Arsaey Angosaey would be wellformed
> >>albeit meaningless Sohlob.  You are not
> >>as fortunate as Sarah whose name is
> >>wellformed as is!)
> >
> >
> > ['Ar\Tej &N'gosi]
> >
>
> I figured that, but any word adopted into Sohlob would still have to
> be adapted to its phonology, restrictive phonotactics and vowel
> harmony, and to the rule that no word may end in a vowel (tho they
> may end in /j/, /w/ or /h/, which latter has a [?] allophone
> phrase-finally.  Arsaey Aengosaey [,&rs&j ,&NQ's&j] is actually the
> closest match.
There are languages that obfuscate names badly by this, of course.  I
just love Chinese for it's system...

One thing that's typical for my langs is that labials are missing and
that /j/, as a palatal, is not always there.  Clusters may be very
restricted, too.

Just to play the game, examples from Tyl Sjok:
   - 'Henrik': [hEn=Xik=],
   - 'Björn':  [djEl3n=] oder [gjEl3n=],
   - 'Arthaey Angosii': [?al=sE ?ENgVsi] -- quite close, I think. :-)

Qthyn|gai is worse, as words would get the normal word prefix to them
including class etc.  Further, they'd get the stem 'name' to indicate
a name.  Apart from that, only three vowels are available [a i M],
only few clusters exist (strange ones), so the basic structure is CV,
labials are missing, too, and no palatals, no l/r (only [tK] and [qK]).
We get:

   - 'Henrik':          [hAnMXikM]       Well...
   - 'Björn':           [gIhMn]          This is close to impossible.
   - 'Arthaey Angosii': [hasai haNgMsi]  Well...

These is [T], but only in [qT].

**Henrik

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