Re: Tong-cho-la, a philosophical language
| From: | Joe Fatula <fatula3@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 17, 2003, 20:55 |
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From: "Tim May" <butsuri@...>
Subject: Re: Tong-cho-la, a philosophical language
> Joe Fatula wrote at 2003-04-17 13:43:10 (-0700)
> >
> > Actually, they have a very simple fixed length. Each syllable is a
root
> > word. A root word begins with a consonant, then has some vowel, and
> > possibly a consonant at the end. So you can always tell where the
> > boundaries are.
> >
> > In "te-leowalkailu", it can only be "te" "leo" "wal" "kai" "lu".
> >
>
> <eo> is a diphthong?
Yes. I'm using /eo/, /ai/, and /au/ as the only diphthongs in this
language, as they seemed easy to distinguish, both from one another, and
from monophthongic vowels.