On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Larry Sulky<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:01 AM, Jim Henry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>> I once devised a sketchy fauxlang "Foalapuk" which took Schleyer's
>> Volapük in the opposite direction from de Jong's version -- instead of
>> adding /r/ and more possible clusters and simplifying the morphology a
>> bit, I simplified the phonology a lot, going to three vowels, seven or
>> eight consonants, and no consonant clusters, but keeping the
>> morphology about the same.

> Would you be willing to share your Foalapuk materials, Jim?

I would.  Here's a draft -- I'll probably HTMLize it
and put it on my webpage at some point, now that I've done this much
work to find my notes, translate them from gzb and transcribe them.

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Foalapiuk goes in the opposite direction from de Jong's reform,
reducing the phoneme inventory to:

consonants:   /S s f ? k t p n m l/
vowels:   /i u a/

/S/ is represented orthographically by |j| as in Schleyer's and de
Jong's versions of Volapu:k; the glottal stop is not written.  There
are nine allowed combinations of two vowels, which can optionally be
pronounced as a long vowel or diphthong, or as two distinct vowels
with a glottal stop between them.  (The glottal stop isn't fully
phonemic, not occurring in other contexts.)  Thus:

|aa| = /a:/ or /a.?a/
|ai| = /aj/ or /a.?i/
|au| = /aU/ or /a.?u/
|ii| = /i:/ or /i.?i/
|ia| = /ja/ or /i.?a/
|iu| = /ju/ or /i.?u/
|uu| = /u:/ or /u.?u/
|ua| = /wa/ or /u.?a/
|ui| = /wi/ or /u.?i/

Fualapiuk's phonotactics allow no consonant clusters within words, but
do allow word-final consonants and consequently inter-word consonant
clusters.  In retrospect that seems like a bad idea.  Probably one
vowel (schwa?) or vowel cluster should have been reserved for breaking
up inter-word clusters.

The tense/aspect morphology is roughly similar in complexity to the
original Volapu:k, with these prefixes:

a-		past, unmarked aspect
i-		present, unmarked aspect (optional except when a
		consonantal prefix precedes it)
u-		future, unmarked aspect
aa-		past, punctual aspect
ai-		past, perfective aspect
au-		past, imperfective aspect
ia-		present, punctual aspect
ii-		present, perfective aspect
iu-		present, imperfective aspect
ua-		future, punctual aspect
ui-		future, perfective aspect
uu-		future, imperfective aspect

The singular person-marking suffixes are almost isomorphic to the
original Volapu:k, but follow de Jong in reducing sexism slightly:

Original	Fualapiuk	meaning
-------		---------	-------
-ob		-up		first-person
-ol		-ul		second-person
-om		-um		third-person masculine
-of		-uf		third-person feminine
-on		-un		third-person epicene
-oy		-uj		third-person generic (= Esperanto
				"oni")

My notes don't say how or whether plurals are marked.

The case and part-of-speech changing suffixes are isomorphic to
Volapu:k and almost identical in forms:

Original	Fualapiuk	meaning
-------		---------	-------
-a		-a		genitive
-e		-u		dative
-i		-i		accusative
-ik		-ik		adjective
-iko		-iku		adverb


These mappings were used to automatically adjust Volapu:k vocabulary
to Foalapiuk phonotactics:

Original	Fualapiuk
--------	---------
a		a
e		aa
i		i
o		ua
u		u
a:		ai
o:		ui
u:		iu

I didn't get as far as finding mappings for all the consonants that
don't occur in Fualapiuk.

Here is the entire corpus of Fualapiuk, with interlinear gloss:

faul-up laan-uin  fual-a-piuk-i.
want-1  learn-INF world-GEN-speech-ACC
I want to learn Fualapiuk.

fual-a-piuk      na  lap-un     sapul-i.
world-GEN-speech NEG have-3.EPI hope-ACC
Fualapiuk doesn't have hope.

(I.e., it has no hope of catching on and having people learn it.)

Na  u-sapiuk-up  tui   fual-a-piuk.
NEG FUT-speak-1  about world-GEN-speech
I won't talk about Fualapiuk.

(i.e., as of 2005/11 I had no intention of publishing this stuff.)

[unless] u-kan-up  sapiuk-uin tui   un  mui
unless   FUT-can-1 speak-INF  about it  using

fual-a-piuk-i         ni-nul-ik.
world-GEN-speech-ACC  OPP-new-ADJ
Unless I can talk about it in original Volapu:k.

(There was a placeholder for an "until/unless" adverb or conjunction I
never got around to coining or adapting from Volapu:k.  I modified my
original resolve saying I might publish something about Fualapiuk if
I eventually learned Volapu:k well enough to talk about Fualapiuk in
Volapu:k, but that never happened.)


Etymologies:

Fualapiuk		Original Volapu:k	meaning
---------		-----------------	-------
fual			vol			world, Earth
piuk			pu:k			language, speech
sapiuk			spik			speaking, saying
tui			do:			on, about
mui			me			with, using
ni-			ne-			opposite, negator pfx
lap			lab			have, possess
faul			?			want, desire
laan			?			learn
sapul			?			hope

I'm too lazy to look up the Volapu:k words noted with ? right now.

-- 
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/