Re: help with starting out

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>Right now Ajuk doesn't have a word for island, and I'm not in a word
>creating mood, but using "sal" to mean island,  to steal ("borrow" is
>the preferred term, but I haven't decided if I'm going to give it back
>yet) from Saalangal, you'd get salom, meaning "island person", and to
>pluralize that, you'd have salomas. Then again, if Ajuk speakers
>encountered Saalangal speakers, they'd probably borrow the name direct,
>provided they figured out that was the name of the language *before*
>they figured out what it meant, giving Ajuk "Salangal".
Something I always forget, which i know I shouldn't is a note to say that
in saalangal, vowels are always pronounced separately. That is, "saal"
really is said like "sa-al" . Diphthongs are aw , iw, ey, oy, ay

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