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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Frank Legros</b>
on <!--date-->21:43 5/28/02
<p>In reply to: <a href="406.html">Kanaran</a> posted by Julao XXXIV Kanari</b> on 16:16 5/20/02
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When I discover a new language, I usually have a first "aesthetic"
impression. I remember how, when I was 16, I discovered Esperanto. My
first impression was strange: although it was intellectually attractive,
Esperanto was phonetically dull, somehow brownish in colour... a
communistic language. German, which I began learning at 13, was full of
wonderfully diverse colours and shapes. Verdurian had all the appeal of
my native French, but without its oddities: nasal vowels and bizarre
consonant clusters. Just think that French "arbre" is pronounced
"arhbrh"...
<p>Kanaran, on the other hand, is <i>tidy</i>. Phonetics is neat, grammar is
precise and regular, a pleasant mix of Latin and Esperanto. Kanaran seems
to be remotely Indo-European (<i>madera ke pader</i> = father and mother), a
language spoken in a place like India: the Kingdom of the Elephant. I
wonder where most of the vocabulary comes from? I guess I understand why
a tiger is a <i>jonathano</i> in Kanaran!
<p>Wouldn't it be great, Julao, if we could safely derive new words from
Proto-Indo-European roots? <i>Madera</i> and <i>Pader</i> indicate that in Kanaran PIE
[t] becomes [d] in intervocalic position, syllabic [r] becomes [er], and
long vowels are shortened. It would be easy, with more rules like these,
to create whole dictionaries.
<p><i>Emena alia suro, Julaol!</i>
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>I have a similar reaction to Esperanto... all those k's and j's.
A Bulgarian friend, however, told me that he prefers k's to c's, perhaps
because to a Cyrillic-trained eye, <b>c</b> looks like it should always
be soft.
<p>Say, while you're on the line, how do you pronounce "Le Pen"? Does it
rhyme with "Adrien" (nasalized è), or with "bon" (nasalized o)?
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