En réponse à Robert Hailman <[log in to unmask]>:

> >
> > Well, mine doesn't please me either (you can have a look at it in my
> homepage,
> > Azak is one of the three langs I have things on the page about.
> Everything's in
> > French though...), but it fits the character of the language nicely...
>
> I'm looking it over as I get the chance. My French is utterly dismal,
> but amazingly enough I can read your home page fairly easily. It's kinda
> freaky. (here we go again!)

:) Many people already told me that my page was easy to read, even for people
who have only a sketchy knowledge of French. As I wanted my style to be easy to
understand in my webpage, I take it as a great compliment.

> >
> > What about your Roman orthography compared to Azak's transcription?
> The Roman
> > transcription of Azak uses the letters with their IPA value (so <j> is
> /j/),
> > except that it has no /h/ and the digraphs <sh> and <zh> mark /S/ and
> /Z/
> > respectively (nothing very original I'm afraid...).
>
> Bingo! The same, pretty much. It agrees with the IPA in that <j> is /j/,
> but it has no /h/ (or /w/), so it has digraphs - <th>, <sh>, <zh>, <kh>,
> and <gh> represent /T/, (/D/ intervocalically) /S/, /Z/, /x/ and
> /whatever voiced velar fricative is.../
>

/G/ (in Sampa at least :) ). Those are basic transcriptions anyway. I think
there must be quite a few conlangs out there with the same transcription system
:) .

>
> Ah, here we go. Ajuk is (somewhat highly) agglutinating also, with no
> difference between verbal and nominal roots - but that's about where it
> ends. Ajuk has an IE case system. Head-final, SVO, verbs agree with the
> subject in gender and number, and also have suffixes for tense, mood,
> aspect, etc. Adjectives agree with the noun in gender, case, and number.
> Beyond Nom/Acc/Dat it has Genitive, Instrumental, Vocative and Ablative.
>
> Well, I feel alot better now!
>

Me too :) .

>
> Hmm. Ajuk is my first language worth mentioning too - I made a few
> attempts when I was younger, but they didn't get very far and I cringe
> when I look at them. Amazingly enough, I started working on Ajuk in
> earnest when I found this list and began reading linguistics books,
> too... uh oh, I'm scared again. ;-)
>

:)

> But over all, it's good that once we delved beneath the surface we found
> some differences. Otherwise we would have had to fight to see who gets
> to keep their language. ;-)
>

He he, the oldest conlang wins priority :) . Since Azak was created when the
list didn't even exist yet... :)))) But well, there is enough place in the world
even for look-alike conlangs :) .

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr