Re: The 30-Minute Conlang: A Challenge or two

--- Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> wrote:

<snip>
>
> I once had the following idea for an instalang:  Do
> letter
> (or phoneme) replacements in the natlang of your
> choice, in
> such a way that the phonology remains pronounceable.
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Neat!  A long time ago I worked out another simple
system where I used 26 different open sylables euqated
to each of the 26 letters ( A = RO, B=NA, C=KWI, etc
). The each letter was replaced with the corresponding
sylable which guaranteed pronouncability. (CAT =
"KWIROLI" for example )

The problem is that it doubles the length of every
word (as does my granddaughter's system).

I like yors better since it keeps words the same
length.  The next step would be to stir it up with
Latin-like grammar or Swahili-like noun classes, or
something really unique to distance it from its parent
language.

--gary

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