Re: A new langauge model?

Walter Mack wrote:
> Consonants: d, k, s, p, pf, j, sh, ch, zh, f, t, m, n, r.
How is "j" pronounced?  Is it like English or German?

> Consonants can generally be grouped together without vowels separating
> them (?) however only "s", "sh" and "zh" can be placed after "pf".
So, what kind of clusters of consonants can you have?  I suppose you
wouldn't have something like tfchdpfsa?

> I was planning to use a grammatical system similar to Latin,
> (with its numerous conjugations and declensions), so that subject, verb
> and object could be placed in any order.
Have you considered agglutinating?  I.e., having separate plural and
case suffixes, and just one set of endings.  For instance, my language
uses -i for plural (well, actually, it's a bit more complicated than
that), and LOTS of case endings, like -f for genitive, -ta for ablative,
-z for dative (thus -if = genitive plural).  I like that, because you
don't need to come up with a bunch of different endings for nominative
singular, nominative plural, genitive singular, etc. and Declension 1,
Declension 37, etc.

> Vocabulary: I haven't developed many words so far. Anyone know of any
>             software that could help me out here?
Try http://www.langmaker.com

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