Re: Random |mormon| :-) (was: my proposals for a philosophical language)
From: | Joe <joe@...> |
Date: | Saturday, January 25, 2003, 15:28 |
On Saturday 25 January 2003 3:22 pm, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> I wrote:
> >Hm, (un-)happily, /mormon/ violates the phonotactics of all the conlangs
> > of mine that have had any serious work on them - Tairezazh can't have
> > non-final
> >/m/, Steienzh can't have /o/ in a non-initial syllable, Altaii can't have
> >the sequence /-rm-/, Kalini Sapak, Tersnuvu and Yargish don't even have
> >/o/.
>
> I meant, of course, that Tairezazh can't have non-initial /m/.
>
> Non-initial [m] occurs, but only as an allophone of /n/ occuring before
> labial consonants. Eg _tshenp_ [tSEmp] "forest".
>
> Andreas
>
Mornpon? Not perfect, but you could fit it in there...