Adam Parrish wrote:
> >On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Nik Taylor wrote:
> >
> >> Here's a suggestion: someone could come up with the rudimentary form of
> >> a conlang (phonology, basic morphology, including any inflections, some
> >> basic grammar), and "put it up for adoption", so to speak.  It would be
> >> interesting to see how different people would flesh out this skeleton
> >> language.
> >>
> >        Kind of like a round-robin conlang?  That's a neat idea, actually.
> >One person could come up with the phonology, another the morphology,
> >others lexicon and so forth.  Heh . . . yes, I agree, this would be rather
> >interesting.  Easy to do via e-mail too.  Anyone want to try out this
> >idea?
>
> I'm in. I think we should do some brainstorming about general features of
> the language before, so that we can stick to them later -- we could make
> a mess out of this!
>
> For my part, this is my basic idea:
>
> * Phonology: stops /p/ /t/ /tj/ /k/ /q/ and voiced; frics /f/ /s/ /S/ /x/ and
> voiced; nasals /m/ /n/ /nj/ /N/; others /l/ /lj/ /r/ /w/ /j/. Vowels /i/ /e/
> /a/ /o/ /u/, perhaps also oe-ligature and /y/, and also unrounded back vowels
> (I love unrounded /u/'s :)
>
> * Syllable structure: CV*, where * = a nasal (assimilated to next place of
> articulation), or /l/, or /r/, or a fricative more or less appropriate to
> the next place of articulation, or another vowel.
>
> * Grammar: agglutinating to inflecting, not polysynthetic. Heavily inflected
> verbs, but not for tense or person but maybe voice and some aspects. A classic
> case system (nominative, accusative, dative, ablative, allative) and postpositions.
> Some "attitude particles" to colour the sentences.
>
> Has anybody thought about the conculture? Not that we have to invent it, but
> there should be a background.
>
>
> --Pablo Flores
>
I'm in too.
However, may I ask
1. whether I could pronounce /f/ as /v/, /S/ as /zh/, /y/ as French /eu/ or /u/, /tj/ as /tS/ ?
2. what sound /x/ and /q/ like ?
3. I have psycho problems with unrounded /u/ (that's Japanese /u/), may I round it ?
4. I don't like other palatalized consonants /lj/ and /nj/ as word initials but I would abide by Rules - as a good SJ I am - and accept them as vox populi conlangororum.


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