Re: Kélen
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> |
|---|
| Date: | Thursday, May 31, 2001, 21:02 |
|---|
On Wed, 30 May 2001, Tom Tadfor Little wrote:
> Wonderful material, Sylvia, on both the language and the culture. The
> overall esthetic reminds me of Ursula K. LeGuin. Can't wait to read more.
>
> The phonology is very nice, too. Distinctive, but still comfortable for
> tongues trained on European language. Is there a stress? Where does it fall?
>
Kélen doesn't really have stress, though one can fake it by stressing
long vowels only. If there is more than one long vowel in the word,
stress the first one. Does that help?
I don't worry so much about pronunciation as I do about how the words
fit together in sentences.
--
Sylvia Sotomayor
Harcourt College Publishing
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
sylvia_sotomayor@harcourt.com
www.harcourtcollege.com
from Caldera 2.4 Linux