I highly doubt anyone's ignoring you blatently. As you said, phonotactics
is hard to come by and I wouldn't be surprised if it's just that not many
people know the constraints. I could venture a guess that Old English is
C(C)(C)V(V)(C)(C) but I am afraid that I'm ~10% sure.

Zach
On May 23, 2012 7:11 PM, "J. M. DeSantis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Conlang List,
>
> I'm not sure what the reason is, but I received no response to my latest
> message (below) and feel as though I'm being ignored by the List as a
> whole. I hate to be a pest, but I really do need the syllable constraint
> information for the languages listed below to be able to progress with my
> own conlangs. I've searched for these for months, but phonotactics is not
> an area easy to come by it seems. I'm sure someone on the list must have
> such knowledge of the following:
>
> Welsh, Irish Gaelic, German, Old High German, Old Norse, Old English,
> Latin, Old Chinese
>
> Again, I thank anyone who can provide the information in advance. I really
> appreciate it as you are helping me out tremendously. All the best.
>
> Sincerely,
> J. M. DeSantis
> Writer - Illustrator
>
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> On 5/14/2012 10:13 AM, J. M. DeSantis wrote:
>
>> Conlang List,
>>
>> I had written an e-mail to the list a week ago requesting the
>> phonotactic/syllable constraint information for a number of natural
>> languages. I'm still missing the following:
>>
>> Welsh
>> Irish Gaelic
>> German
>> Old High German
>> Old Norse
>> Old English
>> Latin
>> Old Chinese
>>
>> My thanks to Matthew Boutilier and David McCann who provided about half
>> of the original list (which are not listed here). I still need the syllable
>> constraints for the above, however. Also, on a side note, does anyone have
>> a good source for finding transliteration information for Malayalam? I have
>> T. N. Menon's book (Malayalam Self Taught), but in duplicating Malayalam's
>> transliteration for one of my own conlangs, I'm trying to avoid the use of
>> strange symbols and diacritics as much as possible (to make it more
>> palatable for the everyday person reading my fantasy stories). Plus, I'm
>> finding his system a little confusing myself.
>>
>> Thank you again, everyone, for the help. It is much appreciated. All the
>> best.
>>
>>