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Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings

From:Amanda Babcock Furrow <langs@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 24, 2007, 2:48
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:13:50PM -0400, Mia Soderquist wrote:

> The beginnings of the grammar are at > http://nevashi.blogspot.com/2007/07/introductionoverview-this-language-is.html.
Wonderful! I'm glad this is why the Ianea blog disappeared, and not some other reason! :) I love the concept. I've been wanting to make a conlang where the sense of the verb depended on two separable pieces ever since dipping into Navajo. Your auxiliaries look very nice and would be fun to learn to wield properly. Curiously, my oldest language started out being known as Ea (the verb "to be", shamelessly stolen from Eru Illuvatar's world-creating utterance in The Silmarillion), but I ended up deciding that was the name of the universe and inventing an ethnonym for the language (mërèchi - soon maybe to be known as mirexu, I keep waffling on the sound change, but really, all those derived nouns in -ia are way way too Greek). So maybe this is a pattern? Finally, I totally second the importance of a native writing system. Now that I've decided mërèchi is to be a lostlang, and its embarrassing orthography an accident of the missionary-philolgist (T.E. Hastely) who discovered it's (<- clitic abuse!) ignorance, I really really want to see it in the "original abugida", and I have created one, but it has problems, and I have a toddler. But there will be a dictionary, oh yes, someday there will, and it will be in abugida order. With alternate spellings flagged, as so: "et-i-al: see e-ti-al". Or vice versa. Amanda

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