Re: Vowel inflection (Was: Re: Translation Relay Lists - SAVE)

En réponse à O'Connell James <jamestomas2@...>:

> well, Elenyo only uses it in the core cases
> elenis - singer ABS
> olonis - singer ERG (note that only the first two
> vowels or vowel combinations (vowel combinations
> includes vowels that are not dipthongs but just happen
> to be next to each other) shift)
> adis - builder ABS
> edus - builder ERG
>
> balhíapal - annoyance ABS
> belhúepal - annoyance ERG
>
Well, I remember one of my early conlangs which did the same. It used Latinate
roots, but altered the vowel of which-or-which syllable of the word for things
like case, number, tense, etc... IIRC, it's name was /lingwe/ (written "lin-gwe"
with a dot under the "e"). I remember also a language of around the same time
which altered consonants instead of vowels for the same role :) .

Christophe.

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