Re: Polysynth Question

Jeff Jones:
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Has anyone done a polysynthetic lang with a small phoneme inventory?
I'd like
to see what you've done.
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Oh, I guess my polysynthetic language counts.  I always think
of the inventory of phones rather than the inventory of phonemes.
Here are the phonemes:

Stops: p, t, k, q
Fricatives: P, s, X
Nasals: m, n
Approximants: l, w, j
Vowels: a, i, u, @

Technically, that's it for the phonemes (and actually, /w/ and /j/
might not be phonemes in the historical sense...).  That translates
synchronically into 22 different consonants and 10 vowels, but it
at base it's 12 and 4.

This is the main page for the language:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/epiq/

Jeff:
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Aspects (special or not), mood, tense, personal agreement, including
adjectival and adverbial uses -- and how they interact with the
phonology.
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All this information is detailed in the verbs section, primarily:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/epiq/verbs.html

Generally, you start with a noun, then use a specifier...

http://dedalvs.free.fr/epiq/specifiers.html

...to turn it into some kind of verb.  Then you add all the verbal
stuff.

-David
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