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Re: nouns-verbs & Kelen AND Re: And now for something completely di   Message List  
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On Wednesday 29 December 2004 18:43, Remi Villatel wrote:
> # 1 wrote:
> > Someone has a conlang concept without "verb-noun" division????
>
> Sylvia will certainly come and talk to you about Kélen, somebody will of

Sylvia is also way busy, and will point you to some Kelen webpages rather than
write out an explanation.

A short intro:
http://www.terjemar.net/kelen.php

More explanations regarding relationals (what I have instead of verbs. Think
of them as copulae.):
http://www.terjemar.net/relats.php

An example of a longer work in translation (incomplete):
http://www.terjemar.net/sarahb.php

These pages are the latest versions of my language. Material on other sites
besides terjemar.net is still valid, but may be dialectal or colloquial or
something now. The material on terjemar.net is also very incomplete. In my
copious free time (ha!) I will change that.

And,
On Sunday 26 December 2004 15:06, Joe wrote:
> Looks similar to my new Language (unnamed). Except mine isn't highly
> isolating, and has interesting ways of creating meanings for words. And
> I simply don't distinguish between nouns and verbs. Adjectival
> constructions are formed by the construction 'word1+pa+word2', where
> word2 is a property of the first.

PA is one of my relationals, and it does something very similar in a very
similar construction. Great minds think alike, obviously.

-Sylvia

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Sylvia Sotomayor
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Kélen language info can be found at:
http://www.terjemar.net/kelen.php

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á (a-acute) é (e-acute) í (i-acute)
ó (o-acute) ú (u-acute) ñ (n-tilde)

áe ñarra anmárienne cí áe reharra anmárienne lá;



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... Sylvia is also way busy, and will point you to some Kelen webpages rather than write out an explanation. A short intro: http://www.terjemar.net/kelen.php ...
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... The answer used to be Rotokas (6 consonants + 5 vowels = 11 phonemes) until Pirahã (7 consonants + 3 vowels = 10 phonemes) became more widely known. ... ...
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... Nahuatl indeed has four vowel qualities (not counting /u/~/u:/ borrowed from Spanish), but each of these also has a phonemically long counterpart, thus...
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... Arabic has six: /a/ /i/ /u/ /a:/ /i:/ /u:/ Each vowel has a wide variety of realizations, depending on the surrounding consonants. I've been working on an...
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... The distinction of long and short consonants may be considered a suprasegmental feature of the syllable, so that the number of vowels would remain three....
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... Indeed! I believe a similar scheme was used in Ottomon Turkish script to indicate vowel harmony (i.e. certain consonants were written before/after front...
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