Orcish revised, and a few other notes

First, I've started research for my second new conlang, Frogman, or
natively, Me-Lo-Yo.  I'm leaning toward a Brahmi-based conscript, all CV
syllables with many consonants (using Abkhaz and even Tech as a model),
vowels/diphthongs (using Khmer as a model), and
tones/nasality/glottalization.  The structure of the script is an
Indic-Tibetan-SE Asian-style alphasyllabry with numerous diacritics, but
each integral symbol has the appearance of a Western typeface, and I might
use Cherokee as a model for the characters.

Now I've revised my phonology for Orcish:

Stops: p t d (retroflex t) c* k q (glottal stop)
Fricatives: f s x* h
Nasals: m n g (= "ng")
Semivowels: r l w y
Vowels: a e i o u
Tone marks: acute (high/rising), grave (low/falling),
  circumflex (complex, usually falling-rising), none (mid/level)
Others: tilde (nasal vowel, usually mid or high tone),
  diaeresis (glottalized vowel, usually low tone)

*About palatals: c and x are realized as either true palatals, postalveolars
"ch"/"sh", or IPA "tc-curl" and "c-curl".  No hard and fast rules on this;
it literally varies from speaker to speaker.

Syllable structure: C(C)VC, with the following restrictions:
1) In CCVC syllables, C2 must be r, l, w or y
2) Ending C can only be a stop or a nasal

Vocalization of the normally voiceless stops has been found among some in
Palmer Land South, toward the Antarctican mainland (still mostly
uninhabitable, but a few brave pioneers are moving to other coastal lands
and even into the interior).

One more revision of the Swadesh list, and I should have a 200-word
vocabulary, and maybe even a few translations.

Danny
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