Re: YAAL: Chazhsu

--- Tristan Alexander McLeay <anstouh@...> wrote:
> Chazhsu /ka_H_Tsu_B/ is an IAL designed to fix up all the worlds
> problems.
>
> Features of Kazsu are:
>  A (C)V syllable structure, not that any other kind exists.
>
>  A monosyllabic root system (this makes for quicker talking. If
> every word
>  had umpteen gillion syllables, speaking would take much too long).
>
>  Twelve tones (very high level, high level, medium levl, low level,
> very
>  low level, rising, falling, high rising, high falling, low rising,
> low
>  falling, rising falling, very high falling, very low rising).
>
>  Fourteen other phonemes (/p/ <p/b>, /t/ <t/d>, /k/ <c/g>, /f/
> <f/v>,
>  /s/ <s/x>, /l/ <r/rr>, /m/ <m/mm>, /n/ <n/nn>, /N/ <ng/nq>, /a/
> <a>,
>  /i/ <i>, /u/ <u>, /e/ <e>, /3\:/ <o>).
>
>  No genders.
>
>  Five hundred and forty-nine roots, from which any word can be
> derived.
>
>  A script containing five hundred and forty-nine individual
> symbols, which
>  (co-incidentally) correspond to the five hundred and forty-nine
> roots
>  (now _that's_ what I call convenience).
>
>  No ambiguity whatsoever.
>
>  However, the Latinisation leaves something to be desired. Perhaps
> even a
>  bit more than just something.
>
>  Four months, two weeks, one day, five hours, six minutes and 49.36
>  seconds after the entire world uses this language, all the world's
>  problems will be solved and we will be living in peace and
> harmony.
>
>  When I'm ruler of the world, it will be the official (indeed,
> only)
>  language (so it's best you start learning it now).
>
> Some grammar:
>
>  Word order: OVS
>
>  Tense:
>   The tense particles are added anywhere in the sentence,
> preferably in
>   the vicinity of, or at least the same sentence as, the verb.
>   Really deep past:  pofi       /p3\:_Mfi_M/
>   Past:              plofi      /p3\:_Tfi_M/
>   Yesterday:         phozhfhizh /p3\:_H_Tfi_H_T/
>   Present:           pjofhizh   /p3\:_Bfi_H_T/
>   Tomorrow:          pjofli     /p3\:_Bfi_T/
>   Future:            phozhji    /p3\:_H_Tfi_B/
>   Really far future: bofil      /p3\:_T_Bfi_B_T/
>   Never:             polvi      /p3\:_B_Tfi_T_B/
>   Unknown:           bovi       /p3\:_T_Bfi_B_T/
>
> Chazhsu is Copyright (c) 2001 Tristan Alexander McLeay under the
> Australian _Copyright Act 1968_ (as ammended), but don't let that
> stop you
> from speaking and posting in it!
>
rotflmao.  ruler of the world, huh? is that gonna be pjofli, phozhji,
or bofil? (or possibly polvi if i or brain beat you to it?)

...nicole, who wants to know how you would say fuzzy blue monkeys in Chazhsu...

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