Re: Tong-cho-la, a philosophical language

From: "Andrew Nowicki" <andrew@...>
Subject: Re: Tong-cho-la, a philosophical language


> JF> In "te-leowalkailu", it can only be "te" "leo" "wal" "kai" "lu".
>
> So there are 3 kinds of roots: CV, CVV, or CVC.
> I guess there are restrictions on the last letter
> to avoid something like "katdopwii".
Something like that.  There are actually a number of restrictions to do two
things: 1) make more possible syllables than just CV of the same sounds and
2) to make sure all possible syllables are easily pronounceable.

Here's how a syllable in Tongchola works:

Initial Consonant:
p t k m n f s h ch w l y

Vowel
a e i o u ai ao eo

Final
none m n ng s l

So you could have a syllable like "pa" or "nais", but not "kwet" or "lean".
There are a few prepositions and such that do not begin with a consonant,
but as they are not root words for making compounds and only show up in
certain places, there is never any question of where the syllable boundaries
are.

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