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

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

vowels in prefixes are not changed.

eg. toladis - destroyer\ABS
toledus - destroyer ERG

there are much more interesting changes but I can't
think of examples right now.
é goes to ei
ú goes to ue
ó goes to ai

James

--- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> wrote: > On
Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 09:09:36PM +0100, O'Connell
> James wrote:
> > lol...I know what organising a mailing list is
> > like..:)
> > Incidently, out of interest, does anyone else here
> > have a lang which uses a vowel shift to show case?
> > It's too much to hope that my revamped Elenyo is
> the
> > only one, but it looks like being rare :)
> [snip]
>
> K00'i! What coincidence... you asked just the right
> person here :-)
>
> My conlang uses vowel shifting to show case. (It
> also use consonant shifts
> to show gender, but I won't get into that here.)
> Here's an example:
>
> juli'r  "house", "dwelling place"
>
> Originative:    jul0'r  [julAr]         "from the
> house", "out of the house"
> Receptive:      jolu'r  [jolur]         "to/into the
> house"
> Instrumental:   jula'r  [jular]         "by means of
> the house"
> Conveyant:      jwl3'r  [ju"lV"r]       "the house
> (in motion)"
> Locative:       juli'r  [julir]         "in the
> house", "about the house"
>
> (Pronunciation given in Kirsch IPA transcription.)
>
>
> T
>
> --
> MASM = Mana Ada Sistem, Man!

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