Re: New to the list

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From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Christophe Grandsire
Sent: dimanche 19 mai 2002 01:02
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Subject: Re: new to the list

En réponse à Julien Eychenne <eychenne.j@...>:


>> I actually subscribed to this list one year ago through yahoogroups
>> but
>> I've never been able to send any message, although I received every
>> message from the list. I get back to conlanging and try to join again
>> the
>> list using listserv : I hope it will solve the problem.
>Indeed! The Yahoo!groups is only an archive, whose usefulness even as
that >I
>find dubious :)) . And you're not the first one to make this common
mistake >:) .

I do feel confuse.

>> I'm working on a conlang which should be called sabyuka, and I will
be
>> pleased to show it to you as soon as it is more consistent (please be
>> lenient).
>We always are! Please share what you have done so far! <hungry look>
:))

I can't resist this hungry look, and I will share my "piece of
language".
  - general sketch : the language will have case marking, nominative,
accusative, dative, genitive, instrumental and locative. As I recently
discovered Dik's grammar, I'm trying to take account of semantic
functions (Agent, Force...) so things may change about case marking.

There is no gender, but there are 5 numbers : 'nullitive' (if there is a
better word ... ;)), singular, (definite) plural, indefinite and
collective. The language should be agglutinative and SOV.

  - elements of phonology :
Here is the vowel system (it will not evolve anymore) :

       |     Front    |   mid     | back
       |              |           |
  high |    /i/       |           | /u/
       |              |           |
  mid  |    /e/, /ei/ |   /@/     | /o/, /ou/
       |              |           |
  low  |              | /a/,/a@/  |


schwa is never stressed, and reports accent on the preceeding vowel.
Every short vowel represents a time unit, and every diphtong represents
two time units.

The syllable pattern is as follows :
Onset : maximum of two consonants
Rhyme : maximum of two moras. Each element in the rhyme represents a
mora, so : the coda can have only one consonant. If there is a coda, the
nucleus must be a short vowel; if there is no coda, the nucleus can be a
diphtong.
We obtain those patterns :
  - light syllables : CV or CCV
  - heavy syllables : CVV, CCVV, CVC, CCVC

(intensity) Stress falls on the last heavy syllable. If there is no
heavy syllable, stress falls on the penultimate one (except for /@/).

I hope I was clear enough, do not hesitate to say me if I'm wrong or not
clear.
I will show you consontants another time because it's a little bit late
;).





>So welcome again from a fellow French conlanger (I supposed you were
>French. I hope I'm right, or else... oops! :)) ).
Thank you very much for this welcoming. You gessed it right, I'm french
( I've been living in Toulouse for four years).


Bye to everyone :)