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Re: Operation Infinite Vocabulary

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, February 13, 2003, 8:04
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 _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

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Danny Wier <dawier@...>