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Re: Zelandish (was: 2nd pers. pron. for God)

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Friday, September 20, 2002, 10:43
On 09/19 11:23  BP Jonsson wrote:
> At 19:23 2002-09-19 +1200, andrew wrote: > > Are any features of Zelandisch phonology related to features of any actual > NZE accent(s)?
The only conscious borrowing from NZE is |ae| to |e|.
> In particular I am curious about the loss of the dental fricatives. >
In that detail Zelandish imitates the continental germanic languages, rather than English or Scots. In designing a Germanic conlang I find I prefer that rather than designating /D/ and /T/ with a digraph or <thorn> and <edh>.
> [snippus magnus] > > >> Funny, I don't know of any Germanic language that combines prepositions > >and > >> articles :)) . > >> > >Yes, I have to wonder where I get these ideas from! > > What about German im = in dem, am = an dem, vom = von dem, auf's = auf das? >
BUSTED! ;)
> > >One of the things I forgot to mention the first time is that Zelandish > >uses the definite article for forming the demonstatives, |det deer|, and > >|det heer| or |'theer| /te:r/. It is declined for case and number. > > That's exactly like Swedish _den här/det här, den där/det där_! >
One of the two conscious borrowings that I have made from Swedish into Zelandish. The other being |dom| which Zelandish uses for the form of the definite dative article.
> [more snippage] > > >> Like the Dutch construction "Jan z'n bril": "John his glasses" for > >"John's > >> glasses"? What I like is that in reduced form it makes it look like the > >> English -'s possessive form :)) (and behaves in the same way, as a > >clitic). > > The same appears in Norwegian _Jon sine briller_. Note the inflected > possessive adjective! >
Tragically I consider the reflexive possessive to be too peripheral in OE to justify its survival into Zelandish. O, well. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@griffler.co.nz alias Mungo Foxburr of Loamsdown http://hobbit.griffler.co.nz/homepage.html Pray for Peace, Act for Peace