Re: Another new lang

On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, FFlores wrote:

> Keolah Kedaire <keolah@...> wrote:
>
> >Thought I'd try something else, and make a sister language for Margadian
> >while I was at it. Thus Senelhian ("New Language") came to be.
> >
> >Instead of adding affixes, like most of my others, it changes sounds more
> >often that adding an affix.
> >eg. shas "star" becomes sheis "stars"
> >milho "friend" becomes milha "friends"
>
> What are the rules of change?
The last vowel sound in the word is moved up one step in the scale of:
U O A EI I AI
The AI sound didn't exist in Zarhian except for as a gradual sound change
when a word ending in a vowel became plural, since Zarhian's plural form
was to simply add an i. (floka, for instance, used to plural as flokahi,
but became flokai, particularly in the western dialects from which
Senelhian is derived.)

> >Not only vowels though, but whether or not the consonant is unvoiced and
> >aspirated, or voiced and nonaspirated.
>
> Oooh, mutations!
>
> >There are aspirated r and l sounds, right?
>
> We discussed an aspirated r some time ago (a *trilled* r). There
> is a sound in Welsh (?) that is described as an aspirated alveolar
> trill. I've never heard of an /l/ being aspirated; I'd be really
> curious to know if it exists (and how!).
Hum, it sounds fine to my ear. Sort of. Although this isn't the first
language I've had that allowed aspirated r and l sounds, it _is_ the first
that allowed them in the middle of words. (Hlayan only allowed them at the
beginning, IIRC) Unless I've totally mistaken the meaning of 'aspirated'.