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1. Re: Guinea pigs invited to try this
From: Henrik Theiling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:30:38 +0100
From: Henrik Theiling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Guinea pigs invited to try this
Hi!
Larry Sulky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Early Konya (my previous effort) featured only one distinguishing
> vowel per root; all vowels other than the first one were reduced, and
> spelled simply as "a". (But it still had a CV syllable structure, so
> no consonant cluster patterns to help with deciphering.)
Sounds quite like German, I think. Most inflectional endings only use
_e_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] and most roots are only one syllable, so you get unreduced
vowels in one word mostly from derivation and compounding and even
many derivational affixes are reduced. However, there are two schmas
in German, since [6] sometimes arises from /@r/. So you get phrases
like:
der sicherere Belagerer
der sicher-er-e belager-er
the.DEF.M.SG.NOM safe-SUP-WEAK.M.SG.NOM besiege-AGT
[de:6 sIC6R6R@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:g6R6]
SUP - superlative
WEAK - weak form (here due to preceding def. article)
AGT - derivational ending for agent
> Unfortunately, this phonotactic scheme gave the language a rather
> 'flat', unmusical sound.
Does German sound like this, too? I'm native, I don't hear that.
**Henrik
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