Re: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)

From: "Arthaey Angosii" <arthaey@...>
Subject: Zetowvu / Ezotwuv (new conlang)


> Alternate Subject Line: "You Evil People, See the Damage You've Caused!"
Exactly like my conworld.  I always knew that everybody needed their own
languages, and I even have some of my original linguistic maps.  In one area
(about the size of Western Europe), I had two original languages that were
to evolve into the whole mix of things later on, just as *all the languages
of Europe come from either PIE or PUralic.  Then I thought it would be neat
to have a little isolate language that managed to survive this whole time,
sort of like Basque.  Then I thought up a really neat language that should
be spoken in the western part of the country, but I wanted it to die out, as
it didn't sound right for the later times.  But I couldn't let it do that,
so it still exists up in the high mountains.  As does the southern language
I decided to throw in.  And the language of the people from the eastern
isles.  And then it made sense for a few of the northwestern people to
invade.  So on and so forth.

To sum up, that region that once had only two languages now has 6 completely
independant language _families_, not counting any creoles or pidgins!

It's kind of addicting.

> VOWELS
> /i/  = [i 1]
> /u/  = [u M U]
> /e/  = [e E]
> /@\/ = [@\ @]
> /o/  = [o V]
> /a/  = [a {]
> /Q/  = [Q A O]
Here's my thought on romanization.

/i/ = i
/u/ = u
/e/ = e
/@\/ = y
/o/ = o
/a/ = a
/Q/ = w

> CONSONANTS
> r\  r\`  j
> l   l`   L   M\
> n   n`   J   N   m
/r\/ = r
/r\`/ = rz
/j/ = j
/l/ = l
/l`/ = lz
/L/ = lj
/M\/ = g
/n/ = n
/n`/ = nz
/J/ = nj
/N/ = ng
/m/ = m

> ORTHOGRAPHY
> A limit I placed on romanization of this language is that I want the words
> to appear pronounceable to an English speaker, even if said apparent
> pronunciation would be 95% incorrect.  I'm aiming for some very systematic
> etabnannery here.  :)
Well, I don't know about 95% incorrect, but it would be pretty wrong from an
English speaker's first guesses:

ljerzyga = /Ler\`@M\a/