Re: help with starting out

Barry Garcia wrote:
>
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Also, juts about any words can be jammed together to give a new meaning.
> >For example, from "serek", "to speak", you have "nanserek", lit. "no
> >speak", meaning "to confuse", and "danserek", lit. "yes speak", meaning
> >"to understand". Such things are fairly common, and can be done with any
> >words, but I don't have any other examples. Maybe "word-see",
> >"odesvisen", for "to read".
>
> Not quite the same, but Saalangal allows compounding in order to make new
> words. For instance, the very word "saalangal" is a compound word, formed
> from saal - island + angal - people. Not a very unusual name for them ;).
>
In the end, words such as "nanserek" and such will probably be a closed
class, because the meaning change isn't regular. Beyond that, I began
with the notion that Ajuk would be very free with word creation, so just
about anything is possible.

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".

> I should also have the pages uploaded to my ftp space before Saturday.
Good good. I look forward to seeing the page.

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Robert