Re: Q & X

On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:50:51PM +0200, Tero Vilkesalo wrote:
> Hi to all!
Welcome to CONLANG! :-)

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> You can say I'm "bitten by the conlang bug". But I like many kinds of
> creative work. Currently, and probably in the future as well, my primary
> interest will be composing music, art music that is. I am a composition
> student in the Sibelius Academy, which is the only music university in
> Finland. That means somewhere in the future I might well be composing for
> living. (That IS possible, at least in Finland, for the most distinguished.)
Cool! I'm a computer science major, but almost majored in music
composition. I still do improvisation and composition in my free time. I
write mainly in the classical genre; if you're interested, I'd like to
discuss anything about composition (off-list, though, to keep the amount
of off-topic stuff here at a sane level). I'm a big fan of Jean Sibelius,
also a Finn. I guess that's what prompted me to respond to you :-)

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> There's not much to tell you about my conlang attempts. I'll tell you about
> them as they make progress.
Waiting to hear about them :-) Don't worry if things are incomplete; my
own conlang is far from complete too, and hearing from others whose
conlangs aren't quite there yet is often an encouragement to me to do more
:-)

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> surnames. My new surname, Vilkesalo, is purely Finnish as well, just like my
> roots. I did have a thought of how foreign people would pronounce it. This
> surname really didn't seem too difficult. Or what do you say?
I'd pronounce it as [vl:kIsalo] (Kirsch).

> Something about articles... If I would ask you anything, it would probably
> be "should I try use the articles even if I couldn't care less?" After
> having studied German 10 years I know remembering which of them should be
> used with different words is not the simplest task! OK, I could of course
> use the system of the language which I'm currently using. But I really
> haven't been interested in messing up with them...
My current conlang doesn't have articles either. A lot of languages do
without them, so the choice is up to you.

> And now to a real question. Which sounds do you write with the letter Q or X
> in your a priori conlangs with Latin alphabet? What different sounds do they
> reflect in those languages of the world that use Latin alphabet? (What is Q
> in Greenlandic???)
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Hmm. Right now, my conlang's orthography doesn't use Q or X. I wanted to
use /x/ for [x], but settled with /kh/ instead, to make it consistent with
other sounds in the alphabet. (Other fricatives are indicated by suffixing
with -h, eg., /th/ for [T]; /ch/ for [S].)


T

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