Way cool..
How well did it go?
Book for the story yet?
How did you come to what it in way of syntax, sounds, and more?
You sure they was Cree on Vinland, I forget, Cree is a .. its
own group or one of the others?
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph B." <darkmoonman@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: Inuit/Picts and others
> >Anyone ever worked on a Jargon or Creole before? For this
idea,
> >Inuit and Irish or Inuit and Norse? Or maybe Algonquin or
Iroquois..
>
> My Miskutsvinnakk Ujimavin ["mIs.kuts.wIn.nVhk u."ji.ma.wIn]
(fur-trading-on
> its-language) is an attempt to create an SVO trade language
which developed
> between the 8th & 12th centuries between the Cree of Vineland
and the 60
> Norsemen left there after Freydis Eriskstottir's unsuccessful
attempt to
> have all of the brothers Helgi & Finnbogi's party murdered by
her husband
> Thorvard.
>
> The language is largely a simplification of Cree with
simplified Old Norse
> syntax and a few borrowing from Old Norse. E.G.:
> 1. Object markers were dropped except for inanimate nouns &
pronouns: /im/
> was retained in the pronoun /jim/ after a verb ending in a
vowel or /im/
> otherwise.
> 2. The prefix /im-/ is an enclitic for inanimate nouns when in
the object
> case. Due to the prominent usage of the locative in Cree, it
was retained as
> the suffix /-(a)kk/.
> 3. Syntax for possessives is <possessor> u(t)<possession>(a)n.
> E.g. Jon utakuppan [jQn Ut."a.kUh.pVn]= John's coat
>
> The vowels are
> a - [a] in an open syllable, [V] when terminal or in a closed
syllable
> o - [o] in an open syllable, [Q] when terminal or in a closed
syllable
> e - [e] in an open syllable, [E] when in a closed syllable
> i - [i] in an open syllable, [I] when in a closed syllable
> u - [u] in an open syllable, [U] when in a closed syllable
> av - [QU]
>
> Consonants
> h - [h]
> j - [j]
> k - [k]
> l - [l]
> m - [m]
> n - [n]
> p - [p]
> r - [r\]
> s - [s]
> t - [t]
> v - [w]
>
> Digraph consonants
> jj - [h.j]
> kk - [h.k]
> kv - [k_w]
> mm - [m.m]
> nn - [n.n]
> pp - [h.p]
> pv - [p_w]
> sk - [s.k]
> ss - [h.s]
> st - [s.t]
> tj - [t_j]
> ts - [ts]
> tt - [h.t]
> tv -[t_w]
> /vv/ [h.w]
>
> ______________________________________________
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> ~~ Ludwig van Beethoven, composer, d. March 26, 1827