Muuun dduch bbij qhir dda miph?t bb?thu elkar?l add.
--but yes, I too am suitably impressed with the alienness, and also the looking-glass logic, of the language. Ortography *will* be interesting though - how does one transcribe along a continuum rather than discretely? I suspect the language may be harder for
dduchaj to read than it is to speak!
I am amused by the thought of an Elcarin accent in another language. It would be a little odd.
Oh, and yes, i spotted baruq (I've always been a big fan of Tolkien's dwarves actually), but i also wonder . . . was the
dun in
ebdunmak possibly inspired by the
-dum in Khazad-dum? Did you have that in mind for "delving, excavation" when you created the word, long before you actually got to the language proper?
Also,
baruq is a derived word, where
char is an unanalysable root; this suggests to me that the original word for "axe" may have become taboo. Cf. Russian
medved'.
Oh yes, and how do Elcari (if at all) salute and farewell each other?