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Omzinesý wrote:

The Genitive is used to denote possession, origin, and part to whole relationships.

Yes, most European languages use it like that.

That's quite what every language uses it as.

It seems we are destined to be mortal enemies. *kung-fu stance* Well, /ʃ/ and /l/ can be redeemed as they're my favourite phonemes in my mothertongue, but /θ ð ɟ ʒ/ are unpardonable! *Aikido stance* They're unpardonable even though one of them forms the cornerstone of the most important word in the...

Ceresz wrote:He already has /j/ and /w/ to justify the palatalized and labialized consonants, he doesn't need /ɥ/ or /ɰ/. Perfectly symmetrical inventories are boring as hell, in my opinion.

Bah you're right. Symmetry = boring. Boring = ores, ores = metal, metal = axes, axes = death => symmetry = death

Ak - noun Ar - verb Ik - adjective Ir - adverb Ai - particle. Ar ar ar ai. Not this one. Otherwise how are you supposed to know what means what? Huh? Answer that, guy. First, drop the gender D: Second, we have an Ergative MSA of Power. Ergative = insight into quantum tunneling and the like = we kno...

Ak - noun Ar - verb Ik - adjective Ir - adverb Ai - particle. Ar ar ar ar ar ar. The swift brown fox jumps over the lazy dog fox swift brown jumps-DECLARATIVE dog lazy over Fuck off the verbs, the language only works on concepts. :) Now what? You've killed off every single word.

Ak - noun Ar - verb Ik - adjective Ir - adverb Ai - particle. Ar ar ar ar ar ar. The swift brown fox jumps over the lazy dog fox swift brown jumps-DECLARATIVE dog lazy over You don't need adjectives. They can be handled either as verbs or as nouns. You don't need adverbs. They can be handled as adj...

We already got it. I remember that. I see that and raise you: Ak - noun Ar - verb Ik - adjective Ir - adverb Ai - particle. Ak ak ak ar ai ak ak ai. The swift brown fox jumps over the lazy dog fox swift brown jumps-DECLARATIVE dog lazy over You don't need adjectives. They can be handled either as v...

Ceresz wrote:He already has /j/ and /w/, and personally I see no need for adding /ɥ ɰ/.

So as to continue the pattern of plain vs. labial. There's a hole now, of a /jʷ/ and /ɰ/.

thaen wrote:Okay, I get that, technically, it's one syllable, but when it's said, does it sound like it should be multiple syllables?

No, a continuity of freakish consonants. A cluster of crap. You get the picture.

I've been working on the Dyuwnyal ['d̪ʲu.n̪ʲɒl̪ʷ] phonology. Consonants: mʲ mʷ n̪ʲ n̪ʷ pʲ pʷ t̪ʲ t̪ʷ kʲ kʷ bʲ bʷ d̪ʲ d̪ʷ gʲ gʷ fʲ fʷ sʲ sʷ l̪ʲ l̪ʷ j w Vowels: i u e o æ ɒ I have ben thinking about: *Voiced fricatives: vʲ vʷ zʲ zʷ, or maybe only zʲ and zʷ. I'm not sure if I want to contrast a broad ...

Cordoma wrote:huh.

I honestly had no idea that those were the same as the latin cases. And they are formed the same way inflectionally?

Huh. Well, shite. I had no idea.

You missed out the Vocative...

Et tu, Brute?

zelos wrote:Interested: Unique grammatical feature
Uninterest: Clicks, tones

Woah, quite detailed =/

Unique doesn't really exist.

I'm drawn to languages that are creatively integrated into an interesting culture, For instance, maybe? I've talked here about a conlang (within an ambient conculture) in which hearsay evidence has two values: "reliable source" and "unreliable source". "Reliable source"...

Thakowsaizmu wrote:

Qaar wrote:

Milyamd wrote:I'll make curse words, but I need bits of phono- and morphology.

Curse words?

Be sure that they mix French and Russian flavours.

Chinese.

Does Chinese have tasty swear words? Russian and French most certainly have.

And in a transitive-MSA language with free word order and badass verbs ambiguity is more avoidable than in English :D Ergativity is fun, but how many of you agree your verbs to objects instead of null or subjects (both subject and object don't count for objects only)? And how can I make a believable...

Milyamd wrote:I'll make curse words, but I need bits of phono- and morphology.

Curse words?

Be sure that they mix French and Russian flavours.

Trailsend wrote:

Qaar wrote:OTOH I despise:
/θ ð ɟ ʃ ʒ l/

It seems we are destined to be mortal enemies.

*kung-fu stance*

Well, /ʃ/ and /l/ can be redeemed as they're my favourite phonemes in my mothertongue, but /θ ð ɟ ʒ/ are unpardonable!

*Aikido stance*

Retroflexes + an entire series of glottalisation/ejectivisation
Also, huge vowel inventories

Also, huge verbs are hot <3

Omzinesý wrote:I think it's better that no one takes lexicon.
Otherwise, no one can make words to create the grammer.

Let the lexicon be everybody's creation, that's what'll fix it