Re: Tit'xka (Pretty Long Post)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 29, 1998, 3:10 |
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Sheets, Jeff wrote:
> Okay so I've got some of this done. I need to work on vocabulary a bit
> more. It gets annoying working with an unimpressive 12 letter morpholo=
gy.
>
> Morphology Phonology etc.
>
> Tit'xka has nine consonants and three vowels morphologically speaking. =
Note
> that only 'n' and the vowels are voiced. All the rest are voiceless.
Er, you mean phonologically speaking, right? Do you have anymorphophonemi=
c alternations?
> q /K/ like ch in German Bach
Is /K/ a new ASCII IPA character? :) German /x/ is [x] in "Bach", and[C] =
in "ich".
> Vowels (s =3D stressed, us =3D unstressed)
> a s & us: /a/
> i s: /i/ us: /I/
> e s: /@/ us: unpronounced.
Typologically speaking, when languages have three vowels, the very strong=
tendency is to
have /i/, /a/ and /u/ (e.g. Gothic). FYI.
> tan ?aqihanxet cexaxanqa tetetixin
> /tan aKihantS@t S@tSatSanKa t@t@titSin/
I assume you mean /S@tSatSa~xa/ here?
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