Re: First thoughts on Prevli or Pervil

Hi!

Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> writes:
> Prevli ~Pervil is the language of the "primitive" Lang-lang people who live
> in the mountainous interior of Yanatros, the large island where my dialect
> of Kash is spoken. They are also "feline" descended, but of mysterious
> origin-- a different species from the Kash, and cannot interbreed. Where the
> Kash are mostly black-furred, the L-L are mostly tawny, but stripes, spots,
> and black-white combos occur. The Kash find them quite exotic.
>
> Subject to change without notice...
>
> Numbers: 0 duN (which probably means 'nothing')
> 1 nak, 2 lat, 3 tan, 4 sar, 5 pan, 6 pnak, 7 plat, 8 ptan, 9 psar
> 10 naknó, 11 nonák, 12 nolát... 20 latnó, 30 tannó... 100 sasta
> Ordinals add am- (before C) ~ ma- (before CC)
>
> Personal pronouns:
> 1st sg. kan ~gna
> 2nd sg. mil ~bli
> 3rd sg. --- or zok ~sko ("z" is probably /dz/, phonology not yet totally
> figured out...)
> 1pl. kant ~kanta
> 2pl. milt ~miltä
> 3pl. zet ~zeta
Ah, some interesting metathesis. :-)  Is there some rule or is it
sporadic?

> Reflexive pronouns: (basically reduplications) kanka, milmi, osko,
> kantak, miltim, este
Nice!

> Subject+Object pronoun forms:
> 1sg+2sg kòum, 1s+3s kaska, 1s+1p kakant, 1s+2p kämilt, 1s+3p kazent
...
> I don't think these will be any more taxing to the Lang-lang brain than
> Basque aux. forms :-)))))
:-)  Very nice!

Looks like fun, I'm looking forward to seeing more.

**Henrik