Re: Hressa-Hlab (was: Re: Martian conlangs?)

From: "Rachel Klippenstein" <estel_telcontar@...>
> --- Muke Tever <mktvr@...> wrote:
> > Incidentally, "hnau" is the most useful word ever.
>
> It is a most excellent word!  We should start a
> campaign to introduce it to the rest of the English
> language!  It's exactly the word I always want to use
> to describe my non-human speaking peoples - sentient
> or sapient always sound too latinate and technical and
> impersonl.  I assume "hn" si supposed to be vouceless
> "n"... I wonder if it would get englished to [n&b] or
> [h@n&b].
Yeah, initial sonorants appear to devoice regularly, at least in hrossan
dialects.  Augray, a sorn, just says <nau>.  I'd expect it'd be homophonous with
"now" though.

    *Muke!
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