Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 4, 2001, 17:03 |
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words
| Danny Wier wrote:
| >dwag "a fish" dwga "many fish"
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| Dwga! And I thought Tairezazh had scary initial clusters! (I'm currently
| trying to decide whetehr /fk/ is a valid initial cluster or not. If not,
| would a fk>sk change be believeable?)
The inspiration came from Georgian which has some WICKED initial clusters. Also
a mangled form of Arabic where I eliminate all pretonic vowels (examples: kita:b
"book" > k'tab with a palatized k, atra:f "directions" > traf).
~DaW~
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