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From:Danny Wier <dawier@...>
Date:Monday, July 10, 2000, 17:32
--- Danny Wier <dawier@...> wrote:

> The language, unnamed as of yet, is based on Indo-European, Uralic (or at > least > Finno-Ugric) and Kartvelian. Yukaghir may or may not be included, as is > Samoyedic, the "black sheep" of the Uralic family. The language is, like > my > version of Latin, is suffixal agglutinative with strict SOV word order. > Features include a large number of noun cases (since Hungarian has > seventeen, > I > expect a similar number), a polypersonal verb system (found in Hungarian > and > Georgian; the number and person of the direct object is encoded in the verb > along with the subject -- even infinitives can bear an object marker!), > animate-inanimate gender, singular-plural numeration, no vowel harmony, and
No vowel harmony, but there is ablaut which is mostly related to accent shifts (e > o), where a dummy word, _pest_, would becomes _psot_. Umlaut may occur, where vowels are fronted due to influence of /i/ in an adjacent syllable, and rounding due to a /u/ likewise. That is, well, vowel harmony caused by umlaut. (I posted earlier on Altaic vowel harmony being possibly related to Indo-European ablaut. What I should've said is that there are some parallels of Turkic vowel harmony with Germanic ablaut -- you have fronted vowels, and rounded vowels. The "vowel cube" of Turkish I'll write about soon. This is much more developed in Dragon -- a language spoken by radically engineered humans with reptilian and piscine features -- which has an elaborate system of vowel harmony, umlaut etc. DaW. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/