Re: Teliya Nevashi Grammar beginnings

On 7/18/07, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
>
> Mia Soderquist wrote:
>
> >I have been incubating a language for several months, and it is just
> > starting to hatch.....
> > The beginnings of the grammar are at
> > http://nevashi.blogspot.com/2007/07/introductionoverview-this-language-is.html
> .
> > I will be republishing it as I go with changes and additions. I'll be
> > posting notes on what I am thinking and doing as well. The blog URL is
> > http://nevashi.blogspot.com/
> >
> Looks interesting, and a nice beginning. <nitpick> :-) without interlinear
> glossing, some of the example sentences/phrases are a little difficult to
> puzzle out. I'm sure this will be corrected as you go along.

I will put in the interlinears in the next couple of days.

I've come to a bit of a standstill notebook has gone missing. If I don't
find it tomorrow, I'll just have to go on from here by memory. I was going
to rework pronouns anyway, and there's not much reason to do that on paper
and then enter it all into my document, so I think I'll just skip the paper
phase. (Slowly, I am catching up to the late 20th century. At this rate, I
may join the 21st century before it becomes the 22nd.)


Re the glottal stop-- apostrophe is OK, "q" would be OK too.  Since it's
> only intervocalic, another convention from old Dutch/Indonesianist days
> that
> might work is the dieresis, so ...aä... means [a?a]. (I've also seen e.g.
> manä [man?a]).....provided you don't object to diacritics.

I don't really object to diacritics, and that does look like an interesting
way of doing things. I will definitely make a note of it. If I don't use it
now, there may be another language in my future that will go that way.

Mia.