New: * "A" This marker is used to address the speaker. ven fu domut a li johan. go to home {a} (name) John. Come home, John. * Superlatives are best. The "-IT"...
... Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 12:56 AM ... Fine, except for the Yangzi: if you really want a language without (phonemic) shibilants, it'd IMHO be better...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 4, 2006 1:37 am
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... (like ... introduce Proper nouns do not have to follow the same rules as general vocabulary so clusters are valid on these name. The geographic names used...
... OIC. ... I know, but my point was that most people in the world would have trouble learning it. ... Interesting. ... Ah, good....
David Marjanovic
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Jan 4, 2006 1:20 pm
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... Yes, but the intention is to preserve the native name as much a possible. [n] can be an allophone of /N/ for example. Another option would be to put and...
... From: <sasxsek@...> Sent: Monday, January 02, 2006 1:47 AM ... Ah, the Irish vocative marker... very good, much better than pretending something in...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 5, 2006 11:57 pm
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... Good point about <li>. I was thinking the same thing since there aren't really many occasions when there won't be a proper noun following it. Maybe this...
Here is the proposed list of allowed consonant combinations. Are there any here that some think may be a problem? The only one I have some reservations about...
... Maybe we shouldn't have word-initial consonant clusters that begin with a fricative. For example even something as European as Hungarian doesn't allow fl-;...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 6, 2006 6:07 pm
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... I didn't know of that limitation in Hungarian. Do they have [vl] or [vr]? ... /h/ should be [x] but possible allophones are [h] [X]. So /xw/ could also be...
... At least not word-initially. (For what it's worth, even German doesn't have word-initial [vl] or [vr], and I can't think of English examples either. [fl]...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 6, 2006 10:07 pm
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... Don't know of any English examples either but I have never heard any English speakers have a problem pronouncing names like "Vladimir" (which most English...
... There are people (German monoglots) over here who tend to let my dad <Vladislav> start with [f]. ... If it were, you couldn't whisper it. Whisper [v] and...
David Marjanovic
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Jan 7, 2006 3:55 pm
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UT -> O The <-ut> suffix has been changed to <-o>. The website and dictionary have been updated to reflect the changes. Here are a few examples. besut ->...
* The dictionary has just reached the 2500 word milestone. Lexicon development continues. The addition of a few consonant clusters has greatly helped in...
The reference materials, both online and the downloadable PDF's, have been revised to reflect the latest and to hopefully provide a little more detail than...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the sasxsek group. File : /vowel_map.jpg ...
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Feb 10, 2006 3:47 am
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I know this is off-topic but it may be of interest to the members of this group. You are invited to join a new group-oriented IAL project, Demos. The purpose...
li [David Marjanovic] mi tulis la ... A couple of reasons. First, SASXSEK already has most of the groundwork already laid. Next, while I do solicit and...
The latest Reference PDF file has been uploaded to the website, and the site itself has also been update to keep up with the changes already documented...
... Why not do that analytically? ... Why not something much simpler like the near-universal Indo-European _se_?...
David Marjanovic
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Mar 5, 2006 7:16 pm
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li [David Marjanovic] mi tulis la ... This seemed to fit well with the existing use of the -IT suffix for creating ordinals, and after running a little playing...
I just wanted to let everyone know that there may be problems accessing the SASXSEK web site over the next couple of days. I am switching web hosts and there...
Hello everyone, The transition to the new host and new server seems to have went without any problems. In fact, the new server executes scripts much more...
* Sex Two new suffixes have been added to denote sex. "-aj" is used to mark female beings, and "-aw" is used for males. This has been done to provide a...
... This is now officially changed. All W's and J's have been changes to U's and I's except for initial and intervocalic positions, and in some proper nouns. ...
... Good! Depending on their mother tongue, many (most?) people wouldn't have guessed that J and W were supposed to be vowels when preceded by another vowel. ...
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