Just some terminology notes (not in alphabetical order)...
A pidgin is "a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language. Pidgins have a limited vocabulary, some elements of which are taken from local languages, and are not native languages, but arise out of language contact between speakers of other languages."
a creole is "a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage."
"GALACH: official language of the Imperium. Hybrid Inglo-Slavic with strong traces of cultural-specialization terms adopted during the long chain of human migrations." (Dune: "Terminology of the Imperium")
Some Terminology and Conventions
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Conventions
Italics or < > indicate orthographic representation (in the sense I use "orthographic": the standard written form of something).
[ ] indicate pronunciation (phonetic representation) using some specialized transcription. (Thus far the only transcription posted here is for Proto-Galach.)
(Not sure if these will be necessary yet or not, but / / indicate phonemic transcription and // // a morphophonemic one. If those terms mean nothing to you at the moment, don't worry about it. )
A period within a transcription or representation usually indicates a morpheme (meaning unit) boundary. (Let's use hyphens in the pronunciation if we want to indicate syllable divisions, what-say?) Underlining indicates stress accent.
E.g., Prequelites [prii.kwal.ait.s] or [prii-kwa-laits]
[ ] indicate pronunciation (phonetic representation) using some specialized transcription. (Thus far the only transcription posted here is for Proto-Galach.)
(Not sure if these will be necessary yet or not, but / / indicate phonemic transcription and // // a morphophonemic one. If those terms mean nothing to you at the moment, don't worry about it. )
A period within a transcription or representation usually indicates a morpheme (meaning unit) boundary. (Let's use hyphens in the pronunciation if we want to indicate syllable divisions, what-say?) Underlining indicates stress accent.
E.g., Prequelites [prii.kwal.ait.s] or [prii-kwa-laits]
"Chancho...sometimes when you are a man...you wear stretchy pants...in your room...alone."
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.