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I like the unique-phonology approach, but that is
hard to achieve if you are going to quote or
borrow from absolutely anywhere (I hadn't hought
of clikcs, but even they cut into my borrowing
from Xhosa or !Kung). And making all borrowings
in to predicates, to be sorted out later. I
think that the Lojban approach is about as good
as it gets unless one has one obscure pair to use
for most cases and a Lojban trick for the ones
where labio-velar doubly articulated implosives
(say) do turn up.
--- Jorge Llamb�as <jjllambias@hidden.email> wrote:
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On 5/7/06, And Rosta <a.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:
>
> In the current state of my language, Livagian,
the shape of stems is
> restricted only in that (i) every syllable
bears level tone, (ii) the stem
> cannot begin with /r/. So the process for
Livagicizing a name is (a) throw
> away any tone (which has the additional virtue
of sparing the speaker
> from having to work out how to map tone in the
source language to tone
> in Livagian), (b) add an epenthetic /y/ before
any initial /r/, (c) add a final
> (nonlevel-tone-bearing) inflection indicating
that the stem comes from
> the onomasticon instead of the ordinary
lexicon.
How do you tell where the name begins?
Jorge
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