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Re: Dune Conlang

From:Don Blaheta <blahedo@...>
Date:Friday, November 12, 1999, 3:08
Quoth Bryan Maloney:
> On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Dr. David E. Bell wrote: > > Proto-Galach: A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. > > Atreidean Galach: baridit nehiidit beed gwarp tau nubukt. > > barid -it ne- hiid -it be -e -d > bird [singular] [within] hand [singular] "to be" [present singular]
^^ ^^
> gwarp tau nu- buk -t > worth two [within] bush [singular]
^^ ^^^ Ooh, neat, there's vowel harmony! Odd that /e/ would alternate with /u/, though. Maybe there's no /o/ and /u/ becomes [o] when it's in its vowel harmony form? -- -=-Don Blaheta-=-=-dpb@cs.brown.edu-=-=-<http://www.cs.brown.edu/~dpb/>-=- Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. -- Wernher von Braun