----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Sherwood" <bronto@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2001 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: My new Conlang
> Joe Hill wrote:
> > This is a bump, cause no-one replied to me last time.
>
> we were all struggling with the temptation to sing
> "I dreamed I read a posting by Joe Hill last night ..."
>
> er, never mind.
>
>
> ....
> > w- pronouced as german 'ü'
>
Damn, I'm pronouncing german wrong. Oh well, it's a front closed rounded
vowel.
>
> > s- as english
> > s- as english 'sh'
>
font problem, it should be s with circumflex
> > ?- as in polish '?'
z with circumflex, as in polish z with dot over the top.
>
>
> > ? or ?- as english 'th' in 'thin'
> > ? or ?- as english 'th' in 'then'
T and D with circumflex respectively
> > f- as in japanese syllable 'fu'
> > v- voiced version of above
> > ?- as scottish 'ch'
that should be a c with dot over the top.
> conventionally /T D F B x/ respectively. (but go ahead and use {f v}
> if the language does not also have labiodentals. does any natlang
> distinguish /f/ and /F/?)
>
I'm allowed to take liberties with orthography aren't I? :-)
> > x- as english
> why a separate letter? is your newlang based on one that uses it a lot?
quite a lot, and it looks nicer than 'ks'
>
> > The grammar is interesting, noun and verbs are without vowels,
> > and cannot be pronounced, vowels are added in to distinguish case,
> > nouns and verbs can then be pronounced.
>
> something vaguely like Semitic then?
>
>
Probably, I don't know any semetic languages.