Re: A very short language description (Was Re: Missing Words)

En réponse à "M. Å." <moriquende@...>:

>
> Please note that in my case "non-Indo-European" plus "not very old"
> equals
> "somewhat sucking English". ;) Trying to improve it.
>
Well, as far as I can tell your written English is pretty good. So that
shouldn't be a problem.

>
> No, not really, but the ideas of some polysyntethic American languages
> are
> fascinating. Perhaps I got some inspiration from them, as there are
> some
> Mamqosian verb structures that would take a compound sentence in
> English,
> but this holds very little connection to America.
Maybe unconscious inspiration then :)) .

>
> The language itself has more influence from Uralic laguages, as it is
> my
> first bigger conlang. The "feel" of sounds (not really enough to say
> phonology) I tried to reach was mostly from Dutch and Russian, but I
> was
> never very serious about this, and I speak neither of them.
Hehe, I do speak Dutch, and have a little knowledge of Russian. I guess to get
something that would sound like both, you need a lot of /x/ or /G/ sounds (the
achlaut of German BaCH, voiceless or voiced) for the Dutch feeling, and
palatalised consonants and a lot of /o/ for Russian :)) .

>
> IRL it's a bit more than two years old language which has been evolving
> with
> varying amount of activity. It has less than four hundred of words and
> a
> cronically unfinished swamp for grammar, something always needing
> re-thinking.
Well, with 400 words it's still more than many of my conlangs, and I've been
conlanging for more than 13 years. So don't be shy! :))

 I also make it mostly from inspiration, and thus have
> words
> like "to scent heavily" or "black donkey" (donkey is an important animal
> to
> Mamqosians), but am currently seeking a good word for "to hear". :)
Hehe, I have the same problem with Moten, my only conlang with some important
lexicon. I have plenty of words describing the grammatical features of the
language, but I don't even have a word for "to eat" :)) .

>
> :) I bet it is. I'll be keeping my eyes on whatever you post.
>
I'll try to post about Itakian one day. I'm still in the process of designing
those number verbs, so it'll take a while :(( .

Christophe.

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