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Conlangery #60: Syllable and Word Shapes

Conlangery Podcast

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The Con-Linging Realm: Quenya

Ancient Greek only allows vowels R L and S Huh, which does all sorts of fun things to the declension system in Especially the vocatives. There are a few words in ancient Greek that look like they end in constants But that's only because they're proclidics That right they can never occur on their own. They have to have something following them Yeah, and I'm gonna mention something about that in a minute but um And then another example in the con-langing realm is for example quenya, which only allows voiced stops after voiced resonant codos Because Tolkien wanted to get a particular malithless sound right well I mean if you consider that sound especially mal

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