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mavonduri- 09-06-2007
Etháre
for those of you who know me from the ZBB, i think youre all familiar enough with my stuff to not need an explanation. for those who arent familiar, this is my conscript, which is used to write my conlang Cénárol (you can read about it here my alphabet is also on Omniglot (which i'm very proud of). so..any thoughts? critiques? any and all are appreciated

Sano- 09-06-2007

Welcome mavonduri :hi: Your script is nice, the regularity makes it easy to read while not being too Tengwar-ish. I think for a more in depth opinion, I'd need to see a longer example, or several examples. I assume this: ...is the only online example you have at the moment? It's nice, but again, some longer samples would be awesome to see.

mavonduri- 09-06-2007

yes, currently that's the longest online sample i have at the moment, but i'm hoping to get a longer sample text up soon.

Tolkien_Freak- 09-06-2007

It looks good. I'm not sure I quite understand the vowels (what exactly do you mean be 'stressed' vowel?).

Sano- 09-06-2007

It looks good. I'm not sure I quite understand the vowels (what exactly do you mean be 'stressed' vowel?). I think perhaps he means; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prominence_%28phonetics%29 or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intonation_%28linguistics%29 ...maybe?

Tolkien_Freak- 09-06-2007

Yes, but he posted a separate pronunciation for those...?

Sano- 09-06-2007

Yes, but he posted a separate pronunciation for those...? He did...didn't he...I failed to notice that.

mavonduri- 09-07-2007

actually, the correct term (which i failed to correct in the chart) is "gradation", meaning that vowels undergo one of two changes in pronunciation. Grade I (or "pure") vowels don't have any diacritic marks. Grade II vowels are represented by an acute accent, and Grade III vowels are represented by a circumflex. See here for the phonology of each of the grades

Sano- 09-07-2007

Very interesting...I also noticed that your graphemes are similar for pronunciation of consonants, just slightly differentiated for voicing. I'd still love to see some longer samples. How large is your lexicon?

mavonduri- 09-07-2007

only about 250-300 distinct words. but i can usually create new words by deriving from those preexisting words.

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