Re: rotokas; practical syllabarology; et alia
| From: | Mike Ellis <nihilsum@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 2004, 9:17 |
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Emily Zilch wrote:
>John Lynch (1998: Pacific Languages, U-HI Maanoa) notes that Rotokas
>has six consonants: p t k, v r g. In a footnote (incidentally, the
>*only* other thing he has to say about this language), he notes that [
>v ] [ r ] [ g ] become /m/, /n/, /N/ in certain environments.
>This strongly suggests consonant clusters.
The Rosetta Project's website has a bit on Rotokas phonology.
http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=ROO&doctype=phon&scale=six&version=1&allpages=1
It says there are neither clusters nor final consonants in Rotokas. See
2.2(1) and 2.2(2).
There's also a few pages of a grammar:
http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=ROO&doctype=morsyn&scale=six&version=1&allpages=1
... where it says that the s sound only occurs before i! So the name Rotokas
could be "Rotokasi" in Rotokas, or that might not be the native name of the
language at all.
>Man, I wish I went to MIT steada Harvard, then I could figure out the
>maths - would assuming a (C)V(C) syllabic structure allow for 350
>possible syllables? Well, CV allows 35 possible syllables, right?
The 350 might have been a typo for "35".
M
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