G. Kashkanun Anderson
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For those of you wonkish enough to care (you know who you are!).
I stumbled across some Vilani .sc (sound change) files on the Eaglestone University site a while ago. They looked very good, but also a little bit incomplete to me. In light of that, a few months ago I set about attempting to add what I could to 'firm up' the rules for building Old High Vilani words out of the existing Standard Vilani/OHV relationships.
Here's the resulting SV-OHV file; I'd say it accounts for at least 98% of all known SV-OHV transformations (at least according to the available lexicon). Rather than submit it as an attachment, I'm reprinting it here in this post; anyone who knows what to do with it can just cut/paste it into whatever programs they might use (or they can just plug it in to this website, right here):
Some things that sort of "surfaced" while working on this a few months ago:
One final note: any additions to this sound file should be very carefully considered before taken in to the structure. I'm not saying it couldn't (or shouldn't) be done (and you're welcome to try!); but considering how complicated some of the "canonical" SV-OHV changes are, there's a very good chance that any new sound change tossed in to the mix is going to wind up "breaking" a rule already applied to another word.
I stumbled across some Vilani .sc (sound change) files on the Eaglestone University site a while ago. They looked very good, but also a little bit incomplete to me. In light of that, a few months ago I set about attempting to add what I could to 'firm up' the rules for building Old High Vilani words out of the existing Standard Vilani/OHV relationships.
Here's the resulting SV-OHV file; I'd say it accounts for at least 98% of all known SV-OHV transformations (at least according to the available lexicon). Rather than submit it as an attachment, I'm reprinting it here in this post; anyone who knows what to do with it can just cut/paste it into whatever programs they might use (or they can just plug it in to this website, right here):
SV-OHV sound changes said:
Some things that sort of "surfaced" while working on this a few months ago:
- While ironing out end-word dipthongs in SV, I somewhat inadvertently came across a rule which created the "-uhii" ending that appears in OHV but not SV (of which there's only one current example -- sarpuhii -- that I know of). This rule wound up having a rather unexpected, but intriguing, effect on some high-value SV words that currently have an -un ending (such as karun, Makhidkarun, burun, etc.), when transformed into OHV. One possible explanation for this is that uhii is a very old, high-status root word, possibly taken directly from Vland's Old Dirmani ur-language.
- A number of modern Vilani words somehow wound up with an -ur/-re ending being attached to them since their OHV days. I'm theorizing that these words are survivors of a Rule of Man Creolization process that either injected the Anglic "-er" nominalization postclitic ("work-er," "fight-er," etc.) into OHV words, or simply Vilanicized ROM Anglic words. To reflect this, those words are shown with their -ur/-re endings parenthisized when in their OHV forms.
- The -ub/-ab ending appears very often in OHV, but virtually disappears in SV -- in the process undergoing what appears to be a very unstable transformation process. My guess on this is that Vilani somehow finds this clitic hard to deal with -- I'm going with it being a borrowing from Old Vilani's sister language, Chekaal. Because there's a rather high correlation between it and the above -ur/-re endings, I'd say it's likely some form of a verbal marker or clitic.
- There is another collection of related archaic OHV endings (-ol/-al/-i) that I am attributing to an additional fossilized Old Dirmani postclitic that disappeared sometime in the post-Ziru Sirka era.
One final note: any additions to this sound file should be very carefully considered before taken in to the structure. I'm not saying it couldn't (or shouldn't) be done (and you're welcome to try!); but considering how complicated some of the "canonical" SV-OHV changes are, there's a very good chance that any new sound change tossed in to the mix is going to wind up "breaking" a rule already applied to another word.
