Re: Elomi!
| From: | Taka Tunu <takatunu@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 21, 2005, 5:59 |
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Just combine the foreign word X with another word explaining what it is: Person
X, Country X, City X, Fruit X, etc. Things get pretty clear that way.
Natural languages with "poor" phonologies have had centuries to consider that
and their speakers still can express and use foreign words--some of them even
broadcast TV shows abroad! :-)
Mathias
Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
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I like head-initial languages, and that fits with the Polynesian theme,
with a number of VSO languages, and even some VOS ones like Fijian. But
have you considered how names (place names and personal names) can be
borrowed into Elomi while remaining recognizable? It seems like that
would be a major concern for a language like this (with a relatively
simple phonology compared with most languages that the names would be
borrowed from). It's hard enough to recognize names in Japanese (which
at least distinguishes voiced and voiceless consonants
......
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