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Re: alphabet-animal books

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Sunday, March 30, 2003, 4:24
On Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:51:04 -0500, Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...>
wrote:

>Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote: > >>ha ya haprali, e karun añange..... [ya short for yale 'is'] >>['xa jaxa'prali e'karuna'JaNge] >>"H is Haprali, the lord of the forest" >>Haprali is the largest Cousin, a panther-like animal >> >>Ha is the first letter of the Kash alphabet, so it's just a start..... I >>don't have many other animal names, certainly not 25. > >I had a look through the lexicon, and while Rhean has quite a few animal >names, it does not (yet) have them for all 31 letters. Here's what I got:
Lindiga doesn't have nearly enough animal names yet. Here's a list for Tirelat: A: arhka "raccoon" I: (none that I can find) R: raav "lynx, bobcat" K: koga "gull" U: ugolhku "chameleon" L: lesta "badger" M: mravna "woodchuck, marmot" N: nuumu "owl" T: tegla "swallow" V: var "crow, raven" Y: (none that I can find; very few Tirelat words begin with y) D: dev "rabbit" H: hazaar "deer" O: ooki "guinea pig" E: eriva "mountain beaver" ZH: zhiil "fox" Z: zilva "gerbil" G: gur "dove, pigeon" J: jaljka "eagle" S: stelhka "spider" P: parz "free-tailed bat" SH: shiira "weasel" RH: rhuuzha "cardinal, grosbeak" LH: lhilhka "porcupine" B: binti "armadillo" F: fuuru "shrew" C: cilit "sparrow" DZ: dzih "kingfisher" NG: ngak "duck"
>That's 22 of 31 covered. So far. I imagine this is more difficult for those >whose languages are not spoken on Earth: you must invent not only names, >but the animals themselves! But wouldn't it be interesting to have a look >through an alphabet book of conworld fauna. > >M
That'd be an interesting project once I get started on my new Zireen languages. It's hard enough to find references for drawing animals other than a few common ones like horses and dogs. Figuring out how to draw realistic alien animals would be even harder, but a children's book could use uncomplicated language and stylized drawings. -- languages of Azir------> ---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/index.html>--- hmiller (Herman Miller) "If all Printers were determin'd not to print any @io.com email password: thing till they were sure it would offend no body, \ "Subject: teamouse" / there would be very little printed." -Ben Franklin