Re: Worthwhile Engelang Goal

René Uittenbogaard wrote:

>David J. Peterson wrote:
> >
> > Though, another idea I'm having too late is showing where a given
> > conlanger creates their *own* sound symbolism.
>
>[snip]
>
> > All these words have to do with brightness or whiteness, and
> > all have some sort of palatal in them (and a lot have that /tw/
> > phone).
> >
> > Anyway, have any others done things like this?  Or perhaps a
> > better question: Those who have done this (intentionally or
> > unintentionally), would you care to share?  The lecture's done
> > with, but it'd still be cool to hear about.
>
>Calénnawn uses |h|+vowel for negative words like nothing, no one,
>nowhere, never, etc. e.g.
>
>hort	zero
>hið	none of
>hi	no
>hes	not
>huy-	the opposite of
>hépla	not any more; not yet (depending on other words)
>
>and compounds like:
>
>bey hort    never
>fond hort   nothing
>cas hort    no one
>
>
>René
In Vbazi I use /N/ (represented by |q|) in the words that imply negativeness

no = qi

nobody = qit   (nominative form)
nowhere = bjakq   (syllabic /N/)
nothing = taq
never = -waq-   (it is an auxiliary so it conjugates)

for making a verb negative = (l)aq   (a "l" if the previous word ends with a
vowel)

for making an auxiliary negative = (l)yq   (|y| = /E/)

for making a modal prefix negative = waq, vdyq, qe, yheq
              (the word used will depend of the number there are and which
one is negative)

nullar = qe (before the noun)
              also used to answer "none" to a "how many..." question

- Max

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