Re: Operation Infinite Vocabulary

Danny wrote:
>From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
>
>| I seem to've missed your original message, Danny, but what happened with
>| your "Trollish" language, called LINKA I think, which was also spoken by
>| some sort of revived early hominids? Is this "Orcish language" some sort
>of
>| continuation of that?
>
>I scrapped the project, but I might bring it back. That was the Orcish
>language,
>but I'm only using the term Orc (or Troll) as a convenient term for a
>primitive
>human living in the modern era (after some genetic engineering). They're
>physically strong but mentally weak, so they're bred mostly as slaves and
>grunt
>soldiers, sadly.
>
>It was called LINCA or LINKA (forgot which) because at the time it was a
>heavily
>simplified Latin. Most likely they'll be speaking a minimalist IAL with
>Latin,
>Greek, English, French and other borrowings (in other words, a Euroclone).
A euroclone as the language of a mentally challenged race of GM humanoids. I
somewhy like that picture ...

Danny wrote:
The alphabetical order here is one of
>three(another is A C I L M N P S T V).
>
>A = [a]/[@]; [h]/[?] before vowels
>I = [i]/[e]; [j] before vowels
>V = [u]/[o]; [w] before vowels
>C = [k]/[g]
>S = [s]/[z]; [S]/[Z] before I
>T = [t]/[d]
>N = [n]; [N] before C and word-finally
>P = [p]/[b]
>M = [m]
>L = [l]/[r]
>
>Ten letters total: three vowels, seven consonants.
Neat. Wha'ts the syllable structure? Do the voiceless-voiced pairs occur as
predictable allophones, or are they in free variation? Some for the vocalic
pairs?


                                             Andreas

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