Re: new lang idea . . .

 --- Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> wrote: >
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >En réponse à Andreas Johansson
> <and_yo@...>:
> >
> > > bn wrote:
> > > >i'm not sure whether to use X\ or h\ at the
> moment
> > >
> > > What is [X\]? Based on [x] and [x\], it "ought"
> to be simultaneous
> > > postalveolar and uvular voiceless fricative, but
> I guess that's a bit
> > > much
> > > to hope for if the lang's supposed to be
> "classical".
> > >
> >
> >It's actually a voiceless pharyngeal fricative :)))
> .
>
> How boring!
i know ! i was tempted to use an interesting sound
like [h] but then i lost the inclination ( ;-)~ )

>
> > > What about words with no closed syllable? Among
> the words in your
> > > original
> > > post (which I've industriously deleted), we find
> things like _desebi_,
> > > which
> > > appears to have no closed syllable at all, still
> less a non-final one.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >Well, just looking at the shape of the word, and
> remembering that [e] and
> >[i]
> >are allophones, with [e] under stress and in the
> first post-stress syllable
> >and
> >[i] otherwise, |desebi| *ought* to be stressed on
> the first syllable. Now I
> >may
> >be wrong, I'm doing that from memory...
>
> Well, that agrees with what he said about vowel
> qualities, but he must've
> left something out about stress, unless that "s" is
> a stealth geminate.
bit left out : in words with no closed syllables, or
where only the final syllable is closed, stress falls
on the first syllable


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an extra bit :

nouns have two genders : masculine and feminine ( i
said it was classical ), and probably have several
cases ( which i haven't done yet )

adjectives and nouns vary in the same way

when an adjective agrees with a noun it is used with
the opposite gender ( i stole this from arabic numbers
) :

GIRLf TALLm
a tall girl

adjectives predicated, they go in the same gender :

GIRLf TALLf
the girl is tall

bn

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bnathyuw | landan | arR
stamp the sunshine out | angelfish
your tears came like anaesthesia | phèdre

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