Re: Sketch: Tatari Faran

 --- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> skrev:

> Affricates:
> 	j	[dz]
> 	ts	ts
Suggestion: if your language allows homorganic
consonant clusters, I would recommend representing
[ts] with a single letter, to avoid ambiguities
between the consonant cluster [t.s] and the lone
affricate [ts]. Or at least make some indication of
syllable boundaries (like some transliterations of
Korean), if you allow such clusters.

And you got [dz], my favorite affricate. Go you!

> Flaps:
> 	r	[4] (medial)
>
> Notes: /r/ is realized as [d] when word-initial, and
> [4] when medial.
> In the Roman orthography, I decided to write initial
> /r/ as /d/
> instead, to emphasize this difference in
> pronunciation.
How about simply writing it as /r/, and leaving it up
to the speaker to remember that initial [r] is
pronounced as [d]? Does this allophony extend across
word boundaries; i.e., if the word /raita/ (made up
for the purposes of example) is pronounced as [daita]
in isolation, would it be pronounced with initial [r]
in phrases where the preceding word ends in a vowel,
i.e., /na raita/ being pronounced as [na raita] (for
another made-up example)?

> Short vowels:
> 	a	[a]
> 	e	[&]
> 	i	[i]
> 	ue	[M]
> 	o	[o] or [u]
> 	oa	[A]
> Long vowels:
> 	aa	[a:]
> 	ei	[ej]
> 	ii	[i:]
> 	ou	[u:]
> Glides:
> 	ua	[wa]
> 	... (may be a couple more)
I like this vowel system; there's this really
interesting assymetry to it. Most of the vowels are in
long-short pairs, except for [M] and [A]. Do these
have origin in diphthongs (i.e., [M] historically
being [ui] or something), or as the result of some
sort of ablaut? Or are they just 'there'?

> Nouns
> -----
>
> Case system: Tatari Faran's core case system is
> essentially reduced
> Ebisédian. There are 3 cases: originative,
> conveyant, receptive.
> Besides these core cases, there are the secondary
> cases: the vocative
> and the genitive. There is also a special case,
> tentatively called the
> absolutive, which is unmarked.
What are the function of these cases?

> Verbs
> -----
>
> All verbs in Tatari Faran come with a "complement".
> <truncated>
I would never have thought of this. Very cool! Though
I be ignorant of the more arcane ways of Conlang and I
am but a whiny student, I like this language a lot. Do
you have a website where all this is outlined, or will
you some time in the future?

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