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Re: [bpfk] camxes and syllabification in zi'evla



On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Jorge Llambías <jjllambias@gmail.com> wrote:

There are also some constraints on which syllables can be adjacent: the final consonant of a syllable and the first consonant of the next syllable can't be the same, they can't have different voicedness, they can't both be sibilants, if one is x the other can't be c or k, if the first is m the other can't be z. Also, a syllable that ends with n can't be followed by one that starts with an affricate (tc, ts, dj, dz). Some of these constraints sound completely arbitrary, and they are. In addition, some combinations are disallowed only because they give the same result as some other combination, e.g. tav+la = ta+vla. It doesn't make any difference if we say tav+la is disallowed, or if we say it's equivalent to ta+vla.

I forgot to list one more constraint: a syllable that ends with a diphthong cannot be followed by one that begins with a glide. This constraint has been contested. A possible revision would be to disallow only the glide with the corresponding semivowel, so "tai-ian" would still be disallowed but "tai-uan" would be ok.

mu'o mi'e xorxes

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