Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

Hi!

Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> >    /au/ >  /a:/
> >    /aI/ >  /E:/
> >    /OI/ > */Q:/ > /E:/
> >
> > or maybe
> >    /OI/ > /O:/
>
> The other thing I was thinking was maybe just use series of vowels.
I use that system to foreign names in Tyl-Sjok, too.  Linked with 'h'.
(Korean uses that nowadays, too, right?  Instead of doing /aI/ > /}/)

> Japanese already has things like "aoi," doesn't it?
Yeah.  Strange word.  `Blue or green'.  I never understood the theory
about colours, though it seems typical to have just one word for the
color of grass and of the sky.

> > I don't know how likely these are, but in Korean loan words, at least
> > one is common: Taiwan > tae-man.
>
> Korean loan words?  <puzzled meep>
Hmm?  <copying style><puzzled look>

I just wanted to stress that the shift /aI/ > /}/ (or > /E/) exists
and might, therefore, be feasible.

> German to Tsuhon, I was wondering if I should use any particular
> form--plural sounded attractive just to get rid of gender (which I don't
> want to keep).
No gender. :-(  This lovely way of confusing people.

And no adjective mood (is that the right word?) I suppose?

By mood, I mean the following distinction in level of definedness
by which adjective endings are (also) selected in German:

           Nominative            Dative
level 0:   der   gro

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