CONLANG Digest - 13 Aug 2000 to 14 Aug 2000 (#2000-220)

> From:    Michael Potter <MaxForwrd2@...>
> Subject: Re: R:   Re: De-lurking
>
> >>where do you live?
>
> I live in a state of insanity. :)
> Seriously, I make my home in the home of Coca-Cola, the Choo-Choo, and
Rock
> City, Chattanooga, TN. For all 16 of my years, and I still get lost!
Whoa hey, that's my city!
I go to school in Collegedale.

> From:    "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>
> Subject: how many conlangs do you know?
>
> I'm just curious... how many conlangs do people know here on average,
> besides their own?
>
> I'm been looking over some conlangs and I find that it takes quite a while
> to learn a conlang. Maybe I'm just slow... but I wonder how familiar
> people are with conlangs that aren't their own.
Well, I've only ever really learned one _word_ off this list (language names
excepted).  That'd be 'kfö", which I think is Gearthnuns for 'and'.


I suppose I could contribute something this morning, if I have time...
Modern Hadwan ("Kshínshovai") is the contemporary stage of a language of the
monsters of Europe[1].
Until I have the earlier stages done, I don't know much about it, but I do
have the phonology planned.

ModH consonant phonemes:
      labial  dental  alveolar  post-alv  pal  velar  glott
stop   b  p   (d) t                             g  k
fric   v  f    D  T     z s       Z  S                  h
affr                             dZ tS
nas    m       n                           J    N

I'm not sure if (d) is phonemic yet.  It probably would be, but it might be
an allophone of D and dZ.


ModH vowels:
Hadwan has a "short-regular-long" vowel distinction, kind of like English
does, but not exactly.

<à> /A/ or /{/ - <a> /a/ - <ea> /Ea/
<è> /E/        - <e> /e/ - <ie> /je/
<ì> /I/        - <i> /i/ - <ai> /Ai/
<ò> /U/ (?)    - <o> /o/ - <ou> /^U/
<ù> /U/        - <u> /u/ - <ou> /^U/
                 <y> /y/ - <oi> /oi/

I'm terrible at representing vowels, so I probably have half of them wrong
(<ou> sounds like 'canadian raising' ou, <oi> as in 'boy', <ai> as in 'my',
<ie> as in 'yet'..)

Um... More later, time to go now.

     *Muke! (summoned to manual labor)
[1] ...would be an excellent name for a rock band?