Re: Exit Methkaeki, (re)enter Mephali

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:52:10 -0500, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

>Mephali is a highly-agglutinating language, with syllables that already
>have complex consonant clusters, so at the morpheme boundaries things
>can get pretty ugly.  As an example, I took a shot at the One Ring poem
>(inspired by the "tricky translations" thread, of course), and the
>phrase "in the darkness" in the last verse becomes this monstrosity of a
>word in Mephali: |oñgelpñiþji| /,oN.gelp'NiT.Zi/.  The /pN/ and /TZ/
>feel like articulatory gymnastics to me.  Any suggestions for realistic
>lenition/assimilation rules that might help out?
o, e becoming more closed, first i becomes rounded:
o->u, e->i, i->ü

g->ch /x/, because of this the preceding /N/ becomes /n/
p->f Fricativization
ñ->nj /J/
þj /TZ/-> z /ts/

unchelfnjüzi /unxelfJytsi/

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