Re: A little tidbit from my conlang

"H. S. Teoh" wrote:

> [With due apologies to Sally Caves for (ab)using her first name :-P]
[Ab]use away, with my blessings.  Nice system!  Yours has the useful
effect of keeping people's gender unambiguous.  I haven't yet
devised a way to indicate gender in my Teonaht names, although
specific names are definitely male or female:  Tebnar (male),
Pamnerik (female), Glestin (male), Issytra (female), Jeglin (male),
Vylave (female).  The only initial mutations I subject them to are
in the vocative:  Ha Htebnar (Hey, Tebnar!), Hpamnerik, Hglestin
(pronounced almost like Lestin--hey!  I've figured out WHY Welsh
lenited g goes to blank!), Hissytra, Djeglin, Bvylave.

Sally

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