Re: Finally delurking, and some info in Ciktal

En réponse à Arnt Richard Johansen <arntrich@...>:

> Good evening/morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen, allow me to
> introduce
> myself.  I have been reading this list off and on for about a year
> now.
> Mostly off, I'm afraid, since until recently I haven't been bothered
> to
> learn how to configure decent email filtering.
>
Welcome!

>
> Ciktal has nine vowel phonemes.  The first five are the monophthongs
> /A/,
> /7/ (close-mid back unrounded vowel), /u/, /i/ and /E/.  The other
> four
> are the diphtongs /Aj/, /7j/, /uj/ and /Ej/.  There are 16 consonant
> phonemes: /p/, /t/, /k/, /b/, /d/, /g/, /f/, /s/, /S/, /m/, /n/, /N/,
> /r\/
> and /l/.
>
The consonnant inventory is not original, but the vowel inventory certainly is!
I wonder how stable it would be...

>
> Since Ciktal's syllable structure is a lot more complex than CV, it
> requires four diacritics to be fully expressive.  These are the
> diphthongizer ("vaat", ['vA:t]), which looks like a macron, the vowel
> lengthener ("könam", ['k7jnAm]), the syllable reverser (a small ring
> underneath the character), and the vowel killer (not shown in the
> example).
>
Nice idea!

>
> Oh, by the way, I've constructed a Conlanger Code too!  Here it is:
> CLI/CS lp+ cN:R:S:H a++ y n19:1d R?+++ A E L++++ N2 Iv k-- ia+:+ p+ m-
> o
> P---- d? b? Ciktal
>
Oh! This is the old Conlanger code. It is on version 1.1 now:
http://taliesin.nvg.org/conlang/conlang-code.html

Not much change, except R has been replaced by B (which doesn't ask to specify
the religion), d and b abandoned and s and S added! :)

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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