Re: Introduction; Chana linguistics

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:22:54 PST Edward Heil <edheil@...> writes:
>If two nouns are put next to each other, the second should be
>considered
>to be in genitive case with regards to the first.
>
>     CHANAN          TALISLAN
>     Noun1 Noun2     "Noun1 of Noun2"
>
>     Example:
>     pa kan, literally "isle peace," means "isle of peace."
>
Cool...my conlang, Rokbeigalmki, has the same thing.  It's also known as
a "construct state".  One of the Rokbeigalm's homelands also happens to
be known as "island of peace", too :) .  "Tolosed".
It's actually slightly more complicated than that, the official name is:
_itahhal^osednun_ [itaHal'o:sEdnun] (the ^o is an O with a ^ on top).
That ^o is the construct-state marker which connects _itahhal_ (island)
and _sednun_ (peace).
That name should become, through linguistic shifts, _^ita~l^sednu_
[ita::lsEdnu:], but because of influence from the Elvish language(s), it
became _tolosed_ ['tolosEd], by the similarity-assimilation of
_ita~l_/_tol_ and _sednu_/_sed_.  And even then it should be accented on
the second syllable, not the first, but the Rokbeigalm are notorious for
being lazy when it comes to pronouncing names grammatically correct. :)


-Stephen (Steg)

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