There is 1 message in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1a. Re: Distribution of phonemes in lexicon
From: H. S. Teoh
Message
________________________________________________________________________
1a. Re: Distribution of phonemes in lexicon
Posted by: "H. S. Teoh" [email protected]
Date: Thu May 9, 2013 10:18 pm ((PDT))
On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 08:37:45PM -0700, Roger Mills wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 06:59:52AM -0700, Roger Mills wrote:
>
> Teoh wrote:
> > What does the distribution of phonemes in yall's conlangs look like?
> > =================================
> > RM Aargh. I have no idea, though I've been meaning to try figuring
> > some out, in view of this recent thread. But it takes time.......
>
> Well, tonight I did a little bit of counting-- not in the dictionary
> (several thousand words!!), but in just the first two sentences of a
> translation exercise from some years back.
>
> There were just 61 words
>
> the count (in Kash alph. order)
> h [x] 1
> k 18
> ng [Ng] 7
> ç {S] 4
> c [tS] 13
> nj [ndZ] 3
> ñ 6
> y [j] 10 (not always phonemic, required in i,e__V and a__i,e, but phonemic
> elsewhere)
> s 11
> t 16
> nd 4
> n 10
> r 20
> l 10
> f 1
> p 7
> mb 4
> m 15
> (w) 2 (non-phonemic, only in u_V or a_u)
> v 2
> a 64
> i 36
> e 14
> u 22
> o15
>
> The only surprise was the low number of /h/, I think a longer sample
> would have more.
>
> Anyway, now what do I do with this info? Haaaalp!!!
What do you do with it? Why, make the Kash equivalent of Scrabble, of
course! With the tile scores scaled according to the above frequencies!
;-)
Jokes aside, I did the TF analysis in order to decide on how to design
the TF writing system, but IIRC Kash already has a script. So I'm not
sure what else you can do with this info.
T
--
Programming is not just an act of telling a computer what to do: it is
also an act of telling other programmers what you wished the computer to
do. Both are important, and the latter deserves care. -- Andrew Morton
Messages in this topic (8)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yahoo! Groups Links
<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/
<*> Your email settings:
Digest Email | Traditional
<*> To change settings online go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/conlang/join
(Yahoo! ID required)
<*> To change settings via email:
[email protected]
[email protected]
<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[email protected]
<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
