Re: Article on Elvish, etc.

My favorite part of the article is the way he wrote out the Chickasaw.

<chokema> = [tSokm@]
<schlavanka> = [L@baNk@]
Rising pitch on both words.

[L] is a lateral fricative. Now, I'm quite good at making lateral
fricatives, but I never would have imagined someone spelling them <schl>.

(Those are my pronunciations, not actual Chickasaw speakers').

At 4/19/01 11:48 AM -0700, you wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>Check out the following article from one of our local weekly
>papers, the Los Angeles "New Times".  It discusses Tolkein's
>Elvish and Elvish scholarship within the context of the upcoming
>"Lord of the Rings" movies, and also touches on Klingon,
>Chickasaw, conlanging in Hollywood, and the problem of endangered
>languages.  Marcus Smith and myself were interviewed
>(unfortunately they got my name wrong, Mark instead of Matt, but
>oh well...).
>
>For those of you who are not in the LA area (viz. 99% of you),
>the web address for the article is:
>http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-04-19/sidecar.html
>
>Cheers,
>Matt.


Marcus Smith

"Sit down before fact as a little child,
be prepared to give up every preconceived notion,
follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads,
or you shall learn nothing."
                -- Thomas Huxley

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