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Re: Dropping Q and C (was: Some isolating verb patterns)

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Sunday, January 16, 2005, 21:17
--- Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> wrote:

> On Saturday, January 15, 2005, at 11:09 , Gary > Shannon wrote:
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> > Frater which, like Gary's conlang, is isolating and > takes the bulk of its > vocabulary from Latin & Greek, certainly does not > adhere to Latin spelling. > It uses "K" or "S" for Latin C (it doesn't have > semivowels, so Latin QV > is rendered simply as "K").
Having never heard of Frater (where HAVE I been?) I had to go look it up and find out how it compares with what I'm playing with. One big difference is that I was planning to mark words according to their parts of speach with some ending on the root. Thus where Frater used "andro" as either a noun or adjective (as in "male dog") in my project I had assigned "andru" for the noun and "andre" for the adjective. Also I have about four pages so far of suffixes used to build new words from existing roots. Things like: -(a)iu for a public room or building -(i)stu for a public, but commercial place -(o)im for a private place libariu - library libarim - room in a private home for books liberistu - bookstore (Not to mention the vital "pitsaristu".) As an example here are various words for "church". veno = worship suplo = pray invoko = perform a ritual of invocation ritulo = to perform a ritual transo = meditate sakro = consecrate, make sacred venariu = public place of worship venorim = shrine room suplariu = public place of prayer suplorim = prayer room invokariu = public place of ritual invokorim = private ritual room transariu = public place of mediataion transorim = private mediataion room sakriu = public place of consecration (not "sakrariu", as would be expected) In addition, I have words that have implied gender and suffixes for altering the gender of a word: "rezhu" (king) + "(u)mu" (feminizing suffix) -> "rezhumu" (queen). So I guess it's not as purely isolating as I first intended. --gary

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>Not purely isolating (was: Dropping Q and C)