Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Interesting. I tried to figure out if I avoided such influence... I'm not
>sure. It seems that I have a predilection for "free" word order and verbal
>aspects, but OTOH, for example, I tend to regularize the inventory of
>permitted consonant clusters, which is indeed very un-Russian ;)
The way i avoid influence of my native language is following the style of
languages i know, or have had some exposure to (Saalangal is supposed to
be very "philippine/indonesian" in character, and of course, Montreiano is
a Romance language).

Tangental thought: I wonder if there's been any information published on
what consonant clusters are allowed in Tagalog and which are not. I guess
i'll have to go through a dictionary and manually record the instances.
But from what i've seen almost any consonant can come together.
>
>Some of my projects are deliberately imitative. For example, Kench and
>Oidingese have utterly English-like phonologies (and sound histories).
As i said above, Saalangal is imitative, because it's supposed to sound
philippine/indonesian. I think it leans more towards Philippine though (it
does have the addition of /tS/, but that can be found in Tagalog: tsinoy
/'tSinoj/ (hmm.....maybe the influence of english is there, i'm not too
sure if it's truly /tS/ or more /ts/). I deliberately allowed only the
sounds found "natively" in Tagalog into Saalangal.
>
>And all are intended to look like natural languages... And none is any
>close to being finished... :(
I always intend for my language to look natural. Especially if they seem
related to some existing natural language.

Which reminds me.......i had been considering using existing words from
various Philippine languages to fill out Saalangal, but have it's own
grammar. Cheap and easy way to get a lexicon i guess :).
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