Re: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words

----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Wier" <dawier@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 12:38 PM
Subject: Tech: One, two, three, four, five consonant words


| dw-g    "fish" (Cw = labialized consonant)
| q'-l    "neck, throat" (C' = ejective)
| s    "demonstrative marker"
| b-d    "divide, split"
| t-n.    "spread, stretch" (C. = retroflex)
| gj-r    "scratch" (Cj = palatized consonant)
| H-l-b    "white" (H = pharyngeal h)
|
| Vowels are inserted in the word to indicate grammatical function (as in
| Semitic).  In the case of H-l-b, lb is treated as a single consonant if the
word
| functions as a simple word.

I forgot, I can already form singulars and great plurals from a few words:

dwag "a fish"    dwga "many fish"
Halb "white thing"    Hlab "many white things" (this can be an adjective as well
as a noun)

And one important particle that can function as a prefix: m "1st. inc. plural":

ntan.a "we (you included) stretched out" < m+tan.a

That is an example of nasalization mutation (compare with Irish Gaelic, in this
case, the t > dt (n+t) formation).  The other major mutation is fortis/lenis
opposition, where fortition results from gemination of an interior consonant
unit.

~DaW~


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