Re: Tsuhon: tentative phonology

On Thu, 3 May 2001 16:43:05 -0400 Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...> writes:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, SuomenkieliMaa wrote:
> > And that's too bad, because the Korean language (like
> > the people) is dynamic.  I'd love to incorporate some
> > of its magic into my own conlangs, but for the time
> > being, Vya:a:h has enough natlang influence --
> > although its unique character system does resemble
> > Hangul in a way.
> Well, some people hate the sound of Korean.  :-p  The Chevraqis
> character
> system is written vertically, but its consonant-forms crib off
> Korean's,
> because in its conculture the Chevraqen alphabet was devised by a
> magistrate-scholar-linguist-wannabe (as opposed to
> king-scholar-linguist).  I figured Korean's so obscure anyway, it
> doesn't
> hurt anything, and it might amuse other Koreans.
>
> YHL
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The Gabwe character system was also intentionally based off of Korean.  I
originally wanted to just use Korean, but the sounds didn't match up so i
ended up sort of making my own symbols based on them.  Also, Gabwe is
written horizontally (although vertically is usable for decoration), and
because of the morphemes' phonotactics(?) each syllable-form can have one
of various forms:

1. single symbol
2. two symbols, arranged vertically
3. three symbols, arranged vertically
4. four symbols CCVC
5. four symbols CVCC
6. five symbols CCVCC

Whenever there's a CC sequence in a syllable, they're written
horizontally next to eachother in the row that would have taken up one C.

I don't think Korean is organized in the same way... is it?


-Stephen (Steg)
 "sometimes i am empty of substance,
  like a bookstore after a fire..."
     ~ "pitriyot" by ahhino`am nini(?)

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