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Re: [Ladekwa] Re: Unhappy with Ladekwa as is

In a message dated 10/12/2005 5:52:20 AM Central Standard Time, sts@hidden.email writes:


The modifier derivation helped me a lot to memorize classifiers
and modifiers, so I wouldn't benefit from changing the system.

Another problem for me is that I have become tired of learning entire
morpheme systems. The grammar is what counts to me. I don't know how
long it would take for me to learn a new system over.

Regards,
Stephan Schneider


This is true for me as well.  

Another suggestion for a minor change to reduce the overall CS preponderance is to use consonant clusters to begin some classifiers.  If classifiers beginning with "sk", "sp", and "st" were added to the inventory, then there would be 9 unvoiced consonants available for classifiers.  Retaining 13 vowel (cluster)s "a, aw, ay, e, ea, i, o, oa, oy, u, wa, we, wi" would provide 117 possible finals for classifiers, compared to the current 104 (6 consonants * 17 vowels + cayu + kawe).  The downside to using classifiers beginning with "s" + C is that derived voiced modifiers would begin with voiced "z" + C clusters, i.e. "zb", "zd", and "zg".  While these aren't especially difficult to pronounce, they are rare in Indo-European languages, outside of Slavic languages.

I was hoping to become fairly good with the current sound scheme just to hear what it sounds like from a fluent speaker.

stevo