Re: Quick sound change plot

Your Very Basic Root List... how did you compile it?  I'm making my first
one and I just wondered if it is supposed to be such a pain in the butt...

Andy

>From: Christopher B Wright <faceloran@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: Quick sound change plot
>Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 13:45:16 -0400
>
>Jan van Steenbergen sekalge:
> >Just curious, but what do you need such a program for?
>
>I'm lazy and don't want to go through my Very Basic Root List (VBRL) (tm)
>and work on each root to make the words. Ah, well. I'll just do it the
>proper way.
>
>Christopher Bates sekalge:
> >Out of interest, are any of the sounds in the language
> >represented by digraphs? Is your language strictly CVCVC.. etc or are
> >there any consonant clusters? Consonant clusters combined with digraphs
> >might make it slightly more difficult... not much though.
>
>Raleh has four consonantal digraphs (ph and bh, labiodental plosives, mh
>/F/, and sh /S/) and four vowel digraphs (ae /ej/, ei /9/, eu /y/, ou
>/O/). There are many consonant clusters allowed; the syllable style is
>(S) (K) (L) V (F) (K), where S is a fricative, K is not a nasal or
>semivowel, F is not a stop, and L is a semivowel. (I am going for
>phonetic richness this time. By the numbers, there are 1,128,960 possible
>syllables.)
>
>I think that Raleh is a language for McLuddites (sp?). I have the same
>VBR (tm) for evil, auxlang, and technology.\
>
>Laimes,
>Wright.



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