Re: [engelang] Engelang phonology chat - engelang messages

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:25 PM, MorphemeAddict <lytlesw@hidden.email> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM, And Rosta <and.rosta@hidden.email> wrote:

FWIW, Livagian has 21 unaccented consonants, 4 accented consonants, 7 unaccented vowels and 8 accented vowels -- 21 consonants and 7 vowels if you take only the unaccented. So that gives a sense of where I strike the balance.

That's not too elaborate. If you had accented consonants, then I assume that syllables had two mora, so you probably had long vowels too. Correct?

I think you're confusing accent marks (diacritics) with accent stress or tone. Accented vowels and consonants merely had diacritic marks on them to distinguish them from the unaccented variety, if I understand correctly.

Ha, yeah. I'm sure you're right. I remember And previously speaking about consonants taking pitch in some his sketches, so I figured the "4 accented consonants" were the sonorants /m n r l/ or something. Plus he has more accented vowels than unaccented ones, which made me think one got neutralized when it was "unaccented". We need a word... diacriticized? Diacriticated?