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« on: Feb 12 2010, 04:22:19 »

I've done a bit on Inuktitut, but if you have any suggestions for stuff to add or have any resources that would help with these langs that would be great.

Also, as far as difficulty:

Phonology/Sounds: 2
There are a few sounds that aren't common to a lot of languages, but once you get the hang of those there are few sounds so the pronunciation is pretty simple.

Morphology: 4.5
Being a polysynthetic language there is an affix for pretty much every idea.  This combined with the fact that a lot of the endings end up looking similar and that in order to add affixes you have to change or drop certain letters, it makes things confusing.

Lexicon: 2.5
Single word roots by themselves are fairly simple and usually are only one or two syllables.  More complex meanings build off of these words.

Orthography/Writing: 2.5
Words are pronounced as they are written.  Generally either the Latin script is used, or the Inuktitut syllabary which is fairly simple once you get used to it and generally new sounds are produced by mixing together related sounds.
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« Reply #1 on: Feb 12 2010, 09:04:03 »

Looks good so far. I'd suggest adding the dotted symbols in the sounds and writing page. Cool

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« Reply #2 on: Feb 12 2010, 02:42:58 »

my keyboard can't do the dotted symbols, and since they're identical to the others but with a dot, I felt they seemed redundant.... but you're welcome to add them if you like
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