Re: New Polysynthetic (?) Language

Joseph Fatula wrote:
> Anyone here interested in polysynthetic languages?  I've been working
> on something like one for a bit and have just finished translating the
> North Wind and the Sun:
> http://www.geocities.com/altyaltynalma/northwindandsun_dinew.html
>
> I'm not sure whether it counts as polysynthetic or not, as it doesn't
> involve any incorporation of noun arguments within verbs, but it does
> have a fairly high morpheme-to-word ratio.  What do you think?
>
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And maybe I should mention a little bit about the pronunciation, since
it might not be entirely intuitive.  There are three stops: t, k, and '
for a glottal stop.  There are four affricates and fricatives: ts, ts
(with hacek to indicate /tS/), s, and h.  There are two nasals: m and
n.  There are three approximants: l, j, and w.  The vowels I'm not quite
settled on.  I think the o should be a more open vowel, like English
"caught" (sorry, I don't remember the symbol we use here for it - the
IPA turned script a), and the u should probably be unrounded.  Accented
vowels are high, stressed, and long (but short when before a glottal
stop).  There are no digraphs except for the two affricates, so "kh" is
/k/ followed by /h/.

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