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Re: Tong-cho-la, a philosophical language

From:Joe Fatula <fatula3@...>
Date:Thursday, April 17, 2003, 22:07
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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