Re: MP3: Reading in Da Maetz se Basa

Hi!

Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> writes:
>  --- "ruittenb@tiscali.nl" skrzypszy:
>
> > > This time, I might have a slightly more interesting sound sample
> > > of one of my conlangs.  The last one in da Mätz se Basa did not
> > > seem to have impressed anyone. :-/
> >
> > Yes, it has. I was impressed, but I
> > listened to it only yesterday.
>
> Same here. With one difference: I only listened to it today! :) But I
> agree, the language sounds really cool. And as far as I am concerned,
> it is pretty natural as well (and I think I am in the position to
> judge that; after all, I translated from it not long ago).
Ah, ok, so I was too impatient wrt. feedback. :-)  Thanks!

> My only criticism is that DMsB sound a bit tóó German; I'd rather
> expect a less European and more creole-like sound.
Indeed, I noticed my accent and thought about checking precisely what
the problem is.  Can you specify what you'd exactly expect from a
creole?  I wondered myself.

The phones are actually defined to be German, so that's not the
problem.  But prosody is German and I suspect it shouldn't be.  I also
noticed that I use inconsistent stress patterns for bisyllabic words
(following German intuition) and that some lengthening of vowels
remains where it shouldn't.

For more distance to German:

And is there a glottal stop in that conlang?

Should I change the laminal /s/ to apical?

Should /t/ and /n/ be dental?

What would y'all think?

**Henrik