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 Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 11:56 pm
Well, I got a little more motivated to work on 3 after I realized that Ft'olz's vowel system was hopelessly English. *facepalm* Anyway, Now that I think I have a little experience in new grammers and foreign constonants, 3 should be an excercise in vowels as well.
Alright, enough intro.
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Phonology. I'll start with vowels:
The short English "o": Open back unrounded. Designated "o" for now.
The long English "e": Close front unrounded. Designated "i" for now.
The long English "u", but uncrounded: Close back unrounded. Designated "u" for now.
The long English "i", but without the accompanying "y" sound: Open front unrounded. Desinated "a" for now.
Now, I want to add two more vowels, due to something in the writing system. I've come up with one while experimenting, but I can't figure out the IPA. It's between short "o" and short "e", not schwa...I'll go ahead and give it the tenative name of open-mid central unrounded, which I'll be calling "e".
Now I'm stuck. Trying to deal with two foreign vowels is hard, since they keep gravitating to each other when I'm already having a hard time keeping one distinct from English. So, as of now, the sixth vowel slot is empty.
Now for constonants. Yay, familiar ground...
Plosives: Bilabial, Aveolar, Velar, Dental, and Labiodental (lower lip behind teeth)
Fricatives: Bilabial*, Whatever the English "S" is, Velar, Dental, and Labiodental.
Nasals: Bilabial, Aveolar, Labiodental (lower lip behind teeth)
Approximants: ...*tumbleweed*
Approximants are for cute and flowery languages; 3 is not cute or flowery. Get used to it.
Also, the velar and aveolar plosives have a second form in which the lips are rounded. Same thing for the "S" and the velar fricative.
*The biliabial fricative has two forms. One has the front of the tounge close to the teeth and causing a high-pitched whistle when air is forced out. The second versionhas the tounge receeded from the top of the mouth, making a lower "hw" whistle that shows up in the rounded velar fricative.
Gah, I better assign these constonants symbols in an orthography.
"P, T, K, M, N, S, and F" all get their English symbols. Rounded "S, K, and T" get "Z, G, and D". "X" will correspond to the velar fricative, and its rounded version gets "Y" for the whistley sound. The labial fricatives get "V" and "W", where "V" is the one with the higher whistle.
...So that leaves the labiodental plosive and nasal, and the dental plosive and fricative. They will be assigned "π", "η", "Ψ", and "θ", respectively.
Oh, right. There are two other phenomes. The first is basically pronouncing "P, T, and K" in that order quickly. The second does the same thing, but backwards. These will affect the phonetic constrains of a word they show up in because they take longer to pronounce. They are "Љ" and "ж", respectively.
I know I didn't mention voicing or anything, but I'll get to that in the grammar section. I'm using voicing for something besides more phenomes--which I'm still trying to figure out. >.>
I'd summarize all this, but I'm tired and it's late at the time of writing. Kbai, work on later. [/3]
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 3:28 pm
I feel I really need to express my confusion about "e".
That should emphasize it.
Anyway, I realize I need to fix the orthography, because the symbols seem out of place.
Alright, onto grammar.
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Subject-Object-Verb, but the verb system is...almost nonexistent. I'm only going to put a few very general verbs in, and their ambiguities will be narrowed in context with prepositional phrases and stuff. The verbs, essentially, act like particles.
Verbs: "to be", "to move", a general verb for being the recipient of anything, "to exert", "to know", "to change".
I think I'll be able to change "to know" to represent "to have" with the right prepositional phrases, and "to change" can be self-referential or otherwise.
I'll edit this later for more grammar.
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