cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48258220
Here's something I haven't done yet surprisingly enough. This is the word for the Commonthroat language in Commonthroat itself.
It's romanized
rJhqjHcMrwhich is pronounced /chuff, late falling strengthening growl; huff, early falling strengthening growl; short low strong whine; long low strong grunt, chuff/It's a compound word that consists of the roots
rJhgmeaning throat or language andqjHc, which is the adjective universal or standard.gjHcin turn consists of the adjectiveqjHwhole and the suffix-cmeaning related to or associated with (compare English -y or -ish). Etymologically it means pertaining to the whole.-Mris the 3rd person proximal noun suffix, roughly meaning this or this thing here. The dictionary form of a word is usually the indefinite 3rd person form ending in-g, but Commonthroat is a proper noun, so it can't really be indefinite.Commonthroat is read right to left. The blue glyphs are vowels and the red diacritics (and the red glyph at the end) are consonants. If a consonant begins a syllable it's written as a diacritic. If it ends a syllable it uses a full letter.
