Re: Yivrindil

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Sally Caves wrote:

> jesse stephen bangs wrote:
> >
> > I've dreamt in Romanian and Spanish, but never in Yivrindil :-(
>
> What an absolutely beautiful name for a language.  Is all the
> rest of it this lyrical?
>
> Sally
(BTW, sorry I've taken a few days to respond to this--been too busy
partying this weekend to write much e-mail)

Wow, a compliment from the renowned creator of Teonaht.  Thank you very
much!  Yivríndil is a several-year-old artlang and fictional lang of mine,
and I've tried very hard to make it sound beautiful and lyrical, according
to my aesthetic values.  Here's a short sample:

Hara eyi natala hatillu, ta niéton al nayyaas Yivrindil.

Hara eyi na-tala hatil-lu, ta niét-on al nayya-as Yivríndil.
Beauty is that-virtue high-SUP, and this-INSTR I make-PERF Yivrindil.

"Beauty is the highest virtue, and by this I have made Yivrindil."

a = [a]
e = [E], [e] final
i = [I], [i] final
o = [o]
u = [u]
é = [e]
í = [i]
r = [r], flapped intervocalically
y = [j]
yy = IPA symbol hook-tail z, a voiced palato-alveolar fricative

All other sounds more or less as their IPA symbols.  Stress is generally
on the penultimate syllable.

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Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu
"All for the sake of paradise, the tyrants of our generation stacked
bodies higher than Nimrod stacked bricks, yet they came no nearer heaven
than he did."  --J. Budziszevsky