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Re: Unahoban revisited + vowel inflections

From:Roberto Suarez Soto <ask4it@...>
Date:Monday, May 5, 2003, 7:27
On May/04/2003, Pablo David Flores wrote:

> Hey! I have two verb and two noun classes in Terbian (my newest). > Admittedly they're a pain in the neck (I guess Spanish genders > and conjugations must be a pain for non-natives, too) but they > add variety (I'd always made conlangs with single-conjugation > systems before...).
It's ok; but as you said, you'd made only conlangs with single-conjugation systems before. Unahoban is my first conlang, so I'll stick to that too :-) It's not good to do things complicated at first just for the sake of being complicated :-)
> Is "c" = /c/ or /k/? (/c/ is the unvoiced palatal stop).
My fault, it's /k/ O:-) Anyway, that's how I always intended it to be and how it's in the web page %-) It was just that I fumbled it when transliterating the examples in the mail O:-)
> The stress mark is /'/ (/"/ in proper X-SAMPA) but it goes > before the stressed syllable.
Ok, noted.
> That would have to be fronting instead of closing. /A/ is a back vowel, > /a/ is a front vowel. > /i/ -> /@/ is lowering and centralization. > /i/ -> /y/ is rounding.
What a mess :-) It seems that I was pretty random in those inflections. I'll have to look the charts to make it more "lineal". But anyway, should it be lineal? Does it make sense as it's now? I mean that I wanted inflections to be more or less lineal because I thought that's how inflection works in other languages; but maybe it's not like that at all :-? Maybe it varies wildly from one language to another :-m
> I'm not sure where IPA ends and orthographic transliteration begins, > here. Maybe you should arrange the vowels within a vowel triangle, and > work the changes from that.
I'm sorry, but I don't know what's a "vowel triangle" O:-) ["Hombre" -> "hembra"]
> Probably someone answered this already, but no, there isn't (AFAICT).
Darn. I thought I was right in this one :-) Thanks for you explanation. Is there any online resource with more changes like these? -- Roberto Suarez Soto