Re: Interjections

On Thursday 06 January 2005 23:14, caeruleancentaur wrote:

 > I was working on my Senyecan vocabulary today (my
 > favorite part of conlanging) and I came upon some of the
 > interjections.  I wondered who else might have some
 > interjections in their conlang.  I'm wondering if
 > different emotions call forth similar phonemes, e.g., is
 > pain always "ow"?

Due to the tutorial book for my conlang I've been writing
for the last 6 weeks, following interjections are in the
dictionary now:

ah!        - Ah!/Hey!
angutay!   - Thanks!
bahoiu!    - Don't worry!/Never mind!
manisu!    - Hello!
sahuban!   - Welcome!
saruban!   - Bye!
yi!        - Alas!/My!
yomu eban! - See you!

It's not much, but it's a beginning at least.

Since my lang is full with [a]'s, I guess the equivalent of
"erm" and "uuuuh" is [a:::(m)]. I just haven't yet made up
a way to emphasize one's intention with a rhetoric question
such as English "..., does(n't) it?" or "..., no?". Maybe
[{~_R]? This would equal "..., eh?". What about "ouch",
though? French has "aïe" [Ai)] IIRC, I actually like that.


On Friday 07 January 2005 04:32, Henrik Theiling wrote:

 > Confusingly, 'hm?' is also 'hm?'
 > in German, but with a fast rising tone instead of a slow
 > one as the affirmative sound. (And my grandma uses
 > /hm=?m=hm=/ for 'yes!' :-)))

Mine, too. Alas, the joys of [?m=hm], [?m=?m=] and
[m=.m=_F.m=_R] ... Sonorants at their best! My mum told me
to never use these utterings in other countries because
they're not or wrongly understood there usually.

As for me *personally*, sometimes interjections are
completely random. Unfortunately, my IPA skillz0rz aren't
good enough to describe them if I manage to remember a
random uttering at all.

Carsten

--

Eri silveváng aibannama padangin.
Nivaie evaenain eri ming silvoieváng caparei.
  -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

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