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Re: help with starting out

From:Robert Hailman <robert@...>
Date:Saturday, July 1, 2000, 0:44
Barry Garcia wrote:
> > CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes: > >Also, where are the sylable boundaries in Saalangal? If the "ng" cluster > >falls into one syllable, then it would become "saalanegal", but if they > >are one separate syllables, it would remain as "saalangal", and the "n" > >would realized as /N/ rather than /n/, but the /g/ would still be > >pronounced. > > the syllable boundaries for Saalangal are: sa-a-la-ngal
Is ng /N/ or /ng/? In the first case, the name would be "saalanal", in the second "saalanegal". Either that, or the n would migrate to the third syllable, and it would remain as "saalangal". Of all the things we could be discussing, this seems rather trivial, no? Oh well, it's the trivial things that make life fun! -- Robert