Re: New Language: Borg

At 08:10 PM 9/22/98 +0100, Ray wrote:
>>>   Hmm...biliteral roots, similar to Arabic's triliteral roots.
>>>Phonology strongly similar to Arabic. Structure VSO, like Classical
>>>Arabic. I'll guess...Welsh?
>>
>>Oooh! So close! but, no.
>
>So close!  Umm - not, I think, as close as Cornish or Breton, but still
>Celtic.  Now, let's see.  That 'gh' and 'dh' and the palatalization
>business - perhaps Irish  ;)
>
I think I'm misleading you.  "So close" was a joke (actually, I don't
know anything about Celtic phonology, so maybe it is close).  At any
rate, the consonants of Borg are taken straight from Arabic and the vowels
from Italian (per "Major Languages of the World").  I was thinking more
of the morphology.  On this level, Borg is almost a relex of another
language (albeit somewhat twisted).

-- Terry