Re: Vya:a:h

En réponse à SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...>:

>
> 2) More on Vya:a:h - First off, visas are not required
> for Vaa:vy'yy as Christophe (jokingly?) inqueried
> about.  Secondly, again in reply to Christophe,
> Vaa:vy'yy may be a distant galaxy from ours but the
> inhabitants are human beings (though they can be
> considered truly "enlightened" ones who manage to
> never war or even really deviate to criminal
> behavior).
>
Well, I really want to build my house there  :) .

>
> *Now take a look at this purely Vya:a:hn "phenomenon"!
>
>
>   eg. "I speak" ----> Fin. "puhun" - Vyh. "pun"
>       but in Vyh. it must actually be written as the
>       following: "puh'yi"
>
>       "you look" ---> Fin. "na:yda:t" - Vyh. "na:d"
>       but in Vyh. it must actually be written as the
>       following: "na:y'yu"
>
>   In Vyh. subject pronouns would be "yi, yu, yuu,
>   yyi, yyu, yyuu" which correspond to "I, you, s/he,
>   we, you(pl), they" respectively.  But these
>   beautiful sounds, albeit indepedent of each
>   other by sound length differences, would be
>   treacherous to distinguish from each other esp. in
>   rapid speech, etc.  So, they are reserved only for
>   writing Vya:a:h,
Reminds me a little of Tibetan (and to less extent of French) where the writing
form reflects only remotely the actual spoken form. But Boudewijn knows more
about Tibetan than I do so if you want more info on that ask him :) (BTW,
Tibetan is one of the most beautiful script I ever saw. It's even more
beautiful than the script it's derived of: Devanagari).

[snip]

Extremely interesting writing system. Where did you get the idea of
those "harmony" superscripts? From your own mind, or where you influenced by
some natlang around?

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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