Re: Dune Conlang
| From: | Don Blaheta <blahedo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 12, 1999, 3:08 |
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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?
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