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Re: Hi; & Conlang - Dar-Al-Mar



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "dhasenan" <faceloran@j...> wrote:

> >  glad I am to be seen.
> 
> Allow me to extend a welcome as well-

 hi and hello there.

>-though I've hardly been active here.

 that's okay; we forgive you.  :)


> >   *blank look*  um, I'm new to this whole thing.  could you say 
that 
> > in English?
> 
> IPA = International Phonetic Alphabet. It's a reliable way of 
writing
> pronunciations, not dependent on any particular language and 
therefore
> not susceptible to its changes.

 ahh, okay; thanks!

> Check out <http://cassowary.free.fr/Linguistics/cxschart.png>. If
> you're not familiar with the IPA, you probably haven't learned much
> about phonetics,

 I was learning a second language not long before joining ConCulture 
egroup.

> so you might want to browse the phonetics section of
> ConLangLinks <http://www.ling.su.se/lingonord/conlanglinks/>.

 thank you for the links; heading there right after I post this.


> >  what I thought was that they'd have Quranic Arabic script, and 
> > they'd also have this concultural script.
> 
> Would the script show influences from the Greco-Roman script family?

 probably so...including the habit of writing each letter 
individually (rather than linking them together), so I'd considered 
using the Isolated form of the Arabic letters.


> If you've gotten it down to fifty or so, you've removed a lot,
> apparently. 

  I counted first the vowels and consonants which overlapped between 
the two languages, then I added the ones that didn't overlap.  so, 
yeah, I guess I did.

> >  yeah, I was considering - even before I started Dar-al-Mar - 
asking 
> > you if I could look at Rumiya.
> 
> No need to ask, I'm pretty sure. Conlangers are liberal with their
> creations, generally; if it's online and unmarked, there's a good
> chance it's copylefted. Best to ask if you want to modify it,

 I didn't want to modify it; I just didn't know where it was.

> but
> other than that, asking is unnecessary. It massages the creator's 
ego,
> though ;)

 always a good thing.