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I am pleased to show you my conlang. It is not as well developed as Nolikan. The native name is Yōkettu [jo:'ket:u]

PHONOLOGY

nasals: m n
stops: p t k q ' [ʔ]
aspirated stops: ph th kh qh
affricates: c č [ʦ ʧ]
aspirated affricates: ch čh
fricatives: s š [ʃ] h
approximants: w l y [j]
tap: r [ɾ]

short vowels: a e i o u
long vowels: ā ē ī ō ū
diphthongs: ay aw

Only CV and CVC syllables are permited, but since syllable-initial glottal stop is unwritten, some syllables may look in spelling like they started with a vowel. Long vowels and diphthongs are found only in CV syllables.

/l ɾ/ don't occur in word-initial position, and aspirated sounds and /h/ don't occur in syllable codas.

The penultimate syllable is always stressed.

The phonology is based on a natlang, can you guess which one ?

VERBAL SYSTEM

The verbal system is extremely complex. There are nominative and accusative conjugation prefixes, and suffixes for tenses and moods, allowing to create words like issetho'mulkha 'you used to repetively see me'.

Adjectives are also morphologically verbs, so the same logic is found behind:

pirpa čolte' 'bird sings'
čolte' pirpa 'singing bird'

pirpa ohor 'bird is white'
ohor pirpa 'white bird'.
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LetoAtreides wrote:I
The phonology is based on a natlang, can you guess which one ?
I will say Korean?

Anyways, this looks good but why did you make something complex for a conlang?
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I will say Korean?
You are (geographically) very far from the correct answer.
why did you make something complex for a conlang?
I don't understand your question. This is not an auxlang, so it doesn't have to be simple.

I will also show you the nominal system:

There are three numbers (singular, dual and plural) and three cases (nominative, accusative and oblique). The number suffixes come after case suffixes:

ōthep 'king' (Nom)
ōthepa 'king' (Acc)'
ōthepen 'kings' (Nom)
ōthepan 'kings' (Acc)

The accusative suffix is -a for animate nouns and -u for inanimate nouns.

The verbal prefixes are used with nouns to mark possession. There is a distinction between alienable and inalienable possession: a-chaw 'my dog' (alienable) vs yūhiš < *ye-uhiš 'my heart' (inalienable).

Names of body parts are often used to express spatial relations, so you have to say 'in sth's feet' instead of 'below sth'.
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LetoAtreides wrote:
I will say Korean?
You are (geographically) very far from the correct answer.
Quechua?
そうだ。死んでいる人も勃起することが出来る。
俺はその証だ。
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Ǧ Š Ȟ Ž Č

ǧ š ŋ ȟ ž č
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Only CV and CVC syllables are permited, but since syllable-initial glottal stop is unwritten, some syllables may look in spelling like they started with a vowel. Long vowels and diphthongs are found only in CV syllables.
So you distinguish CVː from CVʔV how in writing how?
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rickardspaghetti wrote:Quechua?
You're close.
So you distinguish CVː from CVʔV how in writing how?
Two identical vowels separated by an apostrophe mean VʔV, a vowel with macron means Vː.
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I forgot about the macrons. It's early.
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LetoAtreides wrote:
rickardspaghetti wrote:Quechua?
You're close.
Lakota?

I suck at guessing things...
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Actually, it's Mayan. I only replaced the ejectives with aspirated consonants.

I'm happy that you could not guess it, since it means that Yoketian is not too close to the original.
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I was sure it was based on the Mayan family when I saw the CV?V/CV: distinction; I have a Yucatec Maya grammar-dictionary out from the library now and I immediately recognized the similarity.
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Arzemju wrote:
LetoAtreides wrote:
rickardspaghetti wrote:Quechua?
You're close.
Lakota?

I suck at guessing things...
Itéšniyaŋ? Hé Lakȟólʼiyapi é he? Wičákȟečhila šni.
そうだ。死んでいる人も勃起することが出来る。
俺はその証だ。
Spoiler:
Ǧ Š Ȟ Ž Č

ǧ š ŋ ȟ ž č
:swe: [:D] :vgtl: [:D] :eng: [:)] :ita: [:|] :lkt: [:'(]
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rickardspaghetti wrote:Itéšniyaŋ? Hé Lakȟólʼiyapi é he? Wičákȟečhila šni.
I don't know what it means, but the he at the end of sentence is a copula in Yoketian:

akhōmi pirpa he - sparrow is a bird
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In Lakota it's an interrogative.
そうだ。死んでいる人も勃起することが出来る。
俺はその証だ。
Spoiler:
Ǧ Š Ȟ Ž Č

ǧ š ŋ ȟ ž č
:swe: [:D] :vgtl: [:D] :eng: [:)] :ita: [:|] :lkt: [:'(]
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