Re: Another weird idea!

On 9/6/05, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:

> let's say that I have a conlang in which all the phonemes can be realised in
> (at least) two ways (from which) a consonant and a vowel and that the fact
> that it is realised as a vowel or a consonant depends of what it follows
> (precedes could work too)
Someone has done this before in another conlang, but I don't
think it was very thoroughly developed.  I'd like to see what you
come up with if you keep developing this.

I don't remember the name of the aforementioned conlang,
but it was a loglang/engelang, and if I recall correctly it had
16 phonemes each with a vocalic and a consonantal allophone.
There was also something about a binary tree lexicon, with
eight one-phoneme words, four of the other phonemes reserved
for starting two-phoneme words, two of the remaining phonemes
reserved for starting three-phoneme words, and the two remaining
phonemes used in some more complex way to form words of
four or five phonemes and maybe longer.
So it had self-segregating morphemes.
Hopefully this will be enough for someone else with a better
memory to identify it.

Inspired by this, I started a sketch of my own with similar
allophony, but it didn't get very far -- about one page
of notes, fairly similar to your sketch.

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Jim Henry
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