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Pronouns Kvíaros has an abundance of pronouns, including 3 personal pronouns, a reflexive pronoun, an indefinite pronoun, and several interrogative pronouns. Personal Pronouns 1st Person (SG PL): ABS dú dút ERG dús dút GEN doí/-do dío/-jo LAT dól dolt ABL dolí dolít 2nd Person ABS bar bare ERG bars...

Verbs Verbs in Kvíaros conjugate to 3 tenses: present, past, and future. Perfective, passive, and antipassive, verbs can be formed by derivation. There are two regular conjugations for verbs: ís- and ús-. (Note not all verbs are accented on the final syllable of the infinitive, see the first post f...

Adjunct clauses are non-obligatory subordinate clauses that modify other clauses. In English, they can be introduced by words like when , if , and because , and can occur in a peripheral position (like at the left edge of a modified clause). They contrast with (i) complement clauses, which are intr...

Nominals Nominals (nouns and adjectives) decline to case and number. There are two numbers (SG & PL) and 6 cases (ABS ERG VOC GEN LAT ABL) The structure of a noun is as follows: Prefix-root-suffix-possessive pronoun-ending All nouns must have at least a root, a noun with no ending will always b...

Typology/basic description Description Kvíalos is a language spoken on the mythical planet Hoyyosa. Specifically it is spoken by the Kvíos Empire, a pseudo empire formed of multiple tribes and vassal states united under one monarchical ruler. They have late Iron Age technology but very advanced sea...

Kvíaros Table of Contents Phonology/Phonotactics/Accent Typology/Introduction Noun Basics Verb Basics Phonology Consonants /m n ŋ~ŋ:/ m n ng /p b t d tɕ dʑ k g/ p b t d ch j k g /f s ɕ h/ f s sh h /ʋ l r j/ v l r y~i All consonants can be geminated unless word initially or finally, written double. ...

When in English is ambiguous between a wh-pronoun ( When did Pat eat? ) and a relative pronoun ( Pat ate when I left ). If languages have morphologically distinct wh- and relative pronouns, they'll form adjunct clauses with the latter (indeed you can think of these adjunct clauses as a kind of rela...

How are interrogatives formed in most languages? Do they all use pronouns? Are they similar like in English? How about temporal clause linking words (I have no idea what to call these) like when (X happens)?

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Do split ergative languages usually have a separate nominative case, or do they repurpose another case? Specifically the kind that experience the split along the lines of tense.

There has been a general loss of morphological complexity in Indo European languages, at least the European ones (I'm not very knowledgeable about the Asian languages). For example PIE > Latin lost many cases, derivational classes, and verb conjugations. Then Latin > Spanish lost all cases and a who...

This looks nice: IE. is an obvious inspiration, but it's still very distinct in terms of sounds and sound changes. I've got no comments at the moment, other than asking where did ğ come from? It's not listed in the phoneme inventory (I thought you might have respelled it as ƿ or vice-versa). Correc...

Hey! I'm sidetracked again from Maric so here's a conlang from a fictional language family I am working on. The proto lang's phonology is as follows: /m n ŋ ŋ w / m n ŋ ŋw /p b p h p' t d t h t' k g k h k' k w g w k wh k w ' ʔ/ p b t d k g kw gw ʔ (aspiration is Ph and ejective is P') /s ɬ X 1 h 2 /...

Verbs Verbs in Central Maric have present, past, future distinction. The future is derived from Ancient Maric's hypothetical mood. Present: 1s -a 2s -(e)ìs 3m -(e)da 3f -palatalization of final consonant of stem 3n -(e)diã 1p -(a)ma 2p -(e)te 3p -aìt Past: 1s -Ø 2s -e 3m -(e)dhia 3f -(e)ìd 3n -(e)d...

I like this language- the Phonology reminds me of Slavic mixed with Proto-Finnic. I like some of the sound changes. Two criticisms, however: Why "High"? For HG, that's a geographic marker. The only Language I can think of that uses that title is High Elvish = Quenya, and that's a Conlang ...

Nouns Nominal declension has simplified to three cases: direct(NOM/ACC), genitive, and dative. Ablaut is not preserved in the oblique. 1st Declension: Vaga < wakas < *wĺ̥kʷos "Wolf" DIR.SG: vaga DIR.PL: vagae GEN.SG: vacha GEN.PL: vagã DAT.SG: vaìg DAT.PL: vagas This declension comes from...

First Daughter Lang
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High Maric High Maric is an Indo European language of the Maric Family. The proto lang is here . Sound changes from Ancient Maric: C=Any consonant V=Any Vowel E=i,ī,e,ē,j N=m,n ʃ > x b,d,g > β,ð,ɣ/V_V p,t,k > b,d,g/V_V ɣ > j/_E ɣ > x w > β C > C j /_E ē > ā ā > ō ī > ē ai > ē au > ō V[-long] > Ø/VC...

Do the numbers 1, 2, and 3 decline or are they all indeclinable? They all decline. Numbers that end in a are declined as a-stem 1st declension nouns, those ending in i or u are i/u-stem 2nd declension, and those ending in consonants are consonant stem 3rd declension. How did you derive the 3rd pers...

Numerals Cardinal 1. īna 2. dwa 3. tri 4. ketur 5. penke 6. ses 7. septa 8. astu 9. newa 10. desat 11. desaina 20. wīsat 30. trísat 40. ketwăsat 50. penkăsat 60. sésat 70. septăsat 80. astŭsat 90. newăsat 100. satàm Ordinal Ordinal numbers are formed with the suffix -ta. Īnata "first" Ses...