The BG Language Creation Guide
Words for Borrowing
Please use the words you acquired in class for the word borrowing assignment if at all possible. If circumstances have conspired against you, I may ask you to use these words for the language contact homework. I have provided all the information you will need.
Group IV: The Weird Disease
Language: a*
Created by Picky Mbicky
A* speakers are highly intelligent, six inch long, bright orange insects with beaks who dwell in steam tunnels under university campuses.
- * = alveolar click
- X = lateral click
- L = voiceless lateral
- Note that the morpheme glossed here as 'bug' is akin to English 'person' and refers to any possibly sentient being who, in their minds, are all bugs.
- healer *ak-ta
health-bug -
name of the disease: bi-Xu-*a
body-bad-body
bi*a = body
Xu = infix for bad/negation
- feel sick: *ak-tatLa-zu
health-depart-verbalizer
- cure: *a-Xu-k-tatla-zu
health-neg-health-depart-verbalizer
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