Re: A New Conlang For Your Consideration

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:40:24 -0500, Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote:

>Merhaba!
>
>Ithkuil is an insanely complex language - I've never seen anything like
it! (Except, perhaps, Rick Morneau's Latenkwa, which is much more
digestable.) The phonology is so complicated; could you transcribe the
sounds as X-Sampa, rather than IPA? (I can't read the IPA symbols, and
downloading some font won't help because I'm visually impaired and use a
speech program which can only interpret Latin-1 characters properly.) But
even so, I don't think I'd be able to pronounce the language properly...
>
>And a primer WOULD be nice, too... Rick Morneau is doing that with
Latenkwa, BTW. If you created a primer - and made it non-linguist-friendly,
I think it would become more learnable!
>
>--Trebor
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Merhabteen, Trebor!  Keef halak?

I myself am unfamiliar with X-SAMPA but I will go to one of the websites
mentioned in the current X-SAMPA thread and check it out.  I will then try
to post an Ithkuil phoneme chart using X-SAMPA.  I have also decided to add
sound files (in .wav format) to my website sometime in the next month or
two, so that readers can hear the various example sentences pronounced.

As for a primer...I will have to give that long and hard thought...I never
contemplated that anyone would want to try to learn Ithkuil.  It will be a
major undertaking for me (it takes about 3 hours for me to come up with a
single semantic root and all its complentary derivatives in the language)
and I had hoped to be done with Ithkuil at this point.  However...I will
consider it.

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