Re: Polysynth Question
| From: | Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 26, 2007, 14:10 |
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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:06:58 -0600, Dirk Elzinga <dirk.elzinga@...>
wrote:
>On 3/25/07, Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...> wrote:
>> Has anyone done a polysynthetic lang with a small phoneme inventory? I'd
>> like to see what you've done.
>
>Miapimoquitch may qualify as polysynthetic, though my earlier post
>about nouns, verbs and switch reference doesn't really show
>polysynthesis. It has 12 consonant and 4 vowel phonemes (which also
>doesn't really show in the examples I gave, since I gave them in a
>more surface-oriented transcription). The consonants are: /p, t, ts,
>k; m n ŋ; s, h; l; j, w/. The vowels are /i, a, u, ɨ/.
>
>Dirk
I'd like to see more of Miapimoquitch, especially the polysynthesis.
BTW some of the characters in the surface-oriented transcription come up as
boxes for me or at least what I'm guessing is barred i.
Jeff
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