Re: Improved (Short) Ygyde

Mike Ellis wrote:
> Andrew Nowicki wrote:
>
>>Perhaps addition of 3 letter roots (CVV = consonant-vowel-vowel)
>>would improve the way it sounds. Maybe there should be two
>>alternative sets of roots: one set are the existing two letter
>>CV roots, while the other set is made of CVV and CCV roots.
>
> ONE set of roots will do fine, but you can extend the number of possible
> roots to have BOTH CV and CVV syllables. The original complaints with Ygyde
> were that its paucity of roots required words to be too vaguely defined,
> thus defeating the purpose of building meaning-based words since the words
> had to be memorised as wholes anyway.
>
>>Examples of CCV roots: gla, knu, mne, dwo, psi, sky. The 3
>>letter roots would replace two consecutive 2 letter roots in
>>some 7 letter words. Obviously, there are 90x90 combinations
>>of the CV-CV roots, so the CVV and CCV roots cannot replace
>>all the CV-CV combinations.
>
> A compromise between adding the whole slew of CCV roots would be to allow
> SOME clusters. But since the CVV roots add so many, you probably wouldn't
> need to have any.
It might be easiest to allow CVN as well as CV syllables, where N is a
nasal homorganic to the next consonant. That avoids difficult initial
clusters, while doubling the number of available roots.