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Re: Introduction to Jovian

--- In romanceconlang@y..., Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote:

> Oh come on Christian, you know what I think about Jovian. 
> I like the language a
> lot, but I think the orthography is a bit too conservative to 
> represent its
> beauty. 

Admittedly, the orthography is not trivial at all, and requires a
serious amount of CPU time to parse.  ;-)  However, the estrangement
of spelling vs pronunciation has happened to many European languages 
(French, English, Gaelic...), so I guess that only adds a measure of 
realism.  =)

As for beauty, I'm rather fond of diphthongs such as ae, oe, io, 
eo etc, the use of which would have to be reduced in future spelling
reforms.  =P



> On the other hand, it gives the language a flavour of 
> Maggelity :) 
> My problem is just that I am not fond of reading huge amounts of 
> X-SAMPA in
> order to get an impression of a language.

Then I'd suggest you listen to the spoken version of the Pater 
Noster, accessible from my langs page.  Anyway, once you get a 
feeling for the language, you can read it rather fluently even 
with the non-trivial spelling.  For instance, it took me only 2-3
attempts each to record those Pater Noster lines.



> I had never seen your main page. As a matter of fact, I didn't 
> even know it
> existed! Very beautiful. 

You might have seen the older web design...  I changed the 
appearance of the site only a few days ago.  The old version is 
still available in the graphics section.



> Should I mention the fact that I'm quite impressed also by the 
> beauty of both
> Jovian and Obrenje fonts? 

Whether or not you should mention that is entirely your decision.
In case you decide to mention it, |muodan graezan| [,mu@d@N"grajD@n].  =)


> And at last, what does "Cinga" mean?

Nothing at all.  I chose the name purely for visual and acoustic
aesthetics.  Later, I gave my first conlang Obrenje a palatization 
pattern so that the spelling |cinga| ["siNga] would even make 
sense.  I have yet to assign a meaning.



-- Christian Thalmann