... But how many languages distinguish /z/ from /Z/ or /d_Z/? You have to look at the entire picture. There aren't so many languages that have two (or more)...
I have a couple of questions about the vocabulary, and maybe Risto or somebody else could let me know where these words come from (origin). There are a number...
... I have recorded etymologies, but I haven't put them to the site. It's at home (and I'm at work now), but I can remember where these words come from. ... ...
I return to this old topic. Earlier I said that I'm fond of Malay/Indonesian word shape. It's midway, not too simple and not too complex. What it means for...
... Do you have examples of closed syllables that have been "creeping" into Pandunia? I still plan to leave only (N) as endings for Neo Patwa syllables. There...
... too ... As you know I too like the CVC shape, or more like C(G)VC shape and agree about Indonesian being a good phonological and morphological model to go...
... It's hard to say because different speakers are going to bring different habits with them. Most euroglots obviously have no problem with a final /s/, and...
... My only question here is why have a root at all. Something like "go/move down" would keep the root count down and still get the point across. ... Which is...
... Well, there are a lot of words that could end in consonant but in stead I have selected forms with a vowel in the end. For example a word that you asked...
... Then how would you say "I climbed down from the tree" and "I fell down from the tree"? The latter: "I went down from the tree by accident"? ... "Jump"...
... it ... The general method of using the a common epenthetic from somewhere other than the source language is pretty workable, but not consistent. In my...
... The oligosythetic approach can be interesting because it helps us think about how to simplify things, but there is a point where it becomes "unnatural". To...
... accident"? There are ways around it. Realize that "falling" as you describe isn't quite descent in the strict sense of just "moving downward", but moving...
... Yes, there is a point where it becomes impractical because they are too verbose. I won't say "unnatural" because even the compounded roots could be...
... This method is interesting (I'd call it "ki-pu-ta"), but I am now troubled... From what I read from the studies of Sophie Kern (a French linguist), about...
... troubled... ... In Finnish -i is always added: pankki (bank), siirappi (syrup), paketti (packet). So it is ki-pi-ti system. I have noticed that Swahili...
... make ... not ... all ... Loanwords which already have a vowel don't need any empenthetic. It's something only used for words that need an extra vowel to...
... But some words come both with and without final vowel. A simple example is the word "tomato". In some languages it ends in consonant, like Indonesian...
... empenthetic. ... epenthetic ... That's when you kind of have to decide which language you are really taking the word from. Many of those are forms which...
... Adding a vowel has the advantage to "protect" the preceeding consonant again phonetic "wear". I would currently choose "tomati", because of my "pa-ti-ku"...
... or -e ... consonant again ... Then what's protecting the final vowels from being reduced or disappearing? ;-) I admit that some consonants, namely stops,...
... Nothing is really stopping them, but I think the idea of phonetic wear is overinflated. PD is supposed to be an auxlang, therefore an L2. As an L2 I'd...
... system. What I use is more of a "pu-ta-ki" system. The reason for those vowels are that [u] assimilates better with [p], likewise for [i] and [k] or [S]....
... Ok, it was a bad argument... To sum up the ways of treating roots: 1. keep only the bare root: tomat 2. add a final vowel, following some euphonic rules:...
... Any relation to the "Whitewater" scandal? I see a few systems for dealing with roots. 1. Allow closed syllables. "tomat" 2. A fixed epenthetic. Pick a...
... That was really more of a joke because of the similarity in names. It's amazing how many people still support Billary Clinton, and how a this and others...
The topic line promises more than I have to offer right now. The crash course that is currently an idea for a comic that I've been thinking about recently. I...
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