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Re: [westasianconlangs] I'm Back!

I'm doing pretty good. Thanks! My conlanging has been pretty much on hold while i've been trying to get all set up for graduate school and finding an apartment and getting internet access and everything like that. I've wanted for a few years to design a semitic conlang, i even have a few basic sound shifts layed out, but unfortunately my Biblical Hebrew Grammar teacher said that there's barely anything known about Proto-Semitic. Maybe in a few years someone will come up with a good comprehensive reconstruction that i can use to make my conlang out of.

But here's some of what i have (i don't have time to go find the rest of the details at the moment):

in general, vowels:

/a/ > /@/
/i/ > /e/
/u/ > /o/
/a:/ > /a/
/i:/ > /i/
/u:/ > /u/

consonants:

/K/ > /T/

loss of emphatic fricatives, development of bilabial emphatic consonant, so there are three emphatics: /p' t' k'/. /p'/ develops from interdentals.

Some kind of segolation. Possibly, syllabic consonants develop from the middle consonant in C@C@C patterns.


-Stephen (Steg)
"silwan."


On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 07:12 PM, Davius Sanctex wrote:

Hi Steg,
 
I remember your contributions in another conlanging list (ideolengua@yahoogroups.com)! How are you? Your comments on Modern Hebrew were excellent! What are your last conlanging projects in the time? Have you dessigned any semitic conlang?
 
Davius Sanctex