The CBB

Verbs have four tense-aspects: Habitual(-Iterative), Non-Habitual, Perfect, and Prospective. Non-habitual is the most used of them. It is formed with a suffix-conjugation while the other tense-aspects are formed with prefix conjugation. Most verbs have distinct stems for the two sets. They are form...

All prepositions have a deictic element. You cannot say "In [the] hospital" but you can say "here [in the] hospital" or "there [in the] hospital". Prepositions are used as perfective prefixes of verbs, too, so you say "A there-kill B." or "A here-kill B." Those deictic elements work as direct and in...

Nouns There is no indefinite article, and gender/number is neither marked then. There is definite articles for both genders and plural. Usually the article is the only plural marker. pa- 'Masculine Definite Singular Nominative' ta- 'Feminine Definite Singular Nominative' wa- 'Plural Definite Nominat...

Word classes Tamduk (like SAE) has three open word classes: nouns, adjectives and verbs. Furthermore, there are static verbs that can be derived from any of the three. Nouns - Can appear as arguments - Have an intrinsic gender (masculine, feminine, pluralia tantum) Adjectives - Can modify nouns with...

Probably a short project again A lang called Tamdouk (ταμρουκ) Inspired by Coptic, written with Greek letters, but in practice, I use the Romanization. Triconsonantal and diconsonantal roots. ta 'feminine definite article' m- derivation 'related to' duk 'the name of the folk' p t̪ d~ɾ k ʔ <π τ ρ κ (...

I once realized that Germanic and Romance languages have very similar variation in *kt English and French elide *k nuit, night Swedish and Italian merge *k with *t notte, natt German and Sardinian lenite *k to x [noxt] (or something), Nacht But where is Germanic Spanish that makes them an affricate?

I also think I've made a breakthrough with my verbs: y-m-n "to call for, to summon" (u-type) Non-Future: 1cs: yanmū 2ms: yanummi 2fs: yanummu 3ms: yanumsi 3fs: yanumsu 1cp: yanmā 2mp: yanummin 2fp: yanummun 3mp: yanumsin 3fp: yanumsun Future: 1cs: nēnamū 2ms: nēnammi 2fs: nēnammu 3ms: nēnamsi 3fs: ...

p t k ʔ s x m n ŋ l ʟ Only dental and velar non-plosives can appear in coda. Velars don't precede dentals or vice versa, though. Plosives have voiced fricative allophones [β ð z ɣ ɦ] between vowels. All consonants can be geminated. Geminated /s x/ are however /ts kx/ respectively. They aren't affric...

p t k ʔ
s x
m n ŋ
l ʟ

Only dentals and velars can appear in coda. Velars don't precede dentals or vice versa, though.
Plosives have voiced fricative allophones [β ð z ɣ ɦ] between vowels.
Plosives can be geminated.
I'm still unsure how /f, s/ behave.

A lang called Tamduk (ταμρουκ) Inspired by Coptic, written with Greek letters Triconsonantal and diconsonantal roots. ta 'feminine definite article' m- derivation 'related to' duk 'the name of the folk' p t̪ d~ɾ k ʔ <π τ ρ κ (spiritus lenis)> <p t d k '> f θ ɹ x h <φ θ δ χ (spiritus aspis)> <f th r ...

Etymologies of words existing in Ulion pr̠ạlū [pʀʌ'l̰u:] 'language' <= *padatlú jōri ['jɔ:ri] 'friend' <= *jábra-ja (good-DIM) sịc [sɪʔt͡s] ' house' <= *síkitsa kjũvi ['kjũ:ʋi] 'girl' <= *kujúmb(a)-ja pjēcạ ['pjɛ:t͡sʌʔ] 'family' <= *pajájtsa-k (k 'Plural') mēsuk [mɛ:'sʊk] 'ground' <= *majsúku miprãš...

You've probably heard of pluractionality, so how about duactionality, a verbal number used if an event occurs exactly twice? Could the same form also mean 'redo'? Pluractionality also often means that several persons do the same thing separately. Probably that could also be the case with duactional...

p t k ʔ <p t k '> f s θ x h <f s ŧ ꝁ h> l j w <l j w> m n <m n> ɾ <r> /l j w/ are devoiced to [ɬ ç ʍ] in coda. (C)(C)V(C) Onset clusters with increasing sonority Stressed i u <i u> e o <e o> ɛ ɔ <ê ô> ä <a>, <â> word-finally Unstressed i, e => ɪ <i> u, o => ʊ <u> ɔ, ɛ, ä => ə <a> Word-finally only o...

Adjectives Adjectives agree in gender/number: Maculine, Feminine, Plural When they are used as modifiers of nouns, they do not agree in case. čēt 'big' M čēt F čēte PL čētạ When predicatives, they appear in Essive. Then, they may agree in gender/number. M čētr F čētre ~ čētr PL čētrạ ~ čētr The adve...

Mitēlr caj ćēl.
'I love you.'

mitēl 'darling, beloved'
-r 'Essive'

caj 'you'

ćē 'consider (positive), like'
-l 'sg1'

The clause thus literally means: 'I consider you [my] darling.'

There are two morphological types of verbs: Light verbs and Derived verbs. Derived verbs are just a stem + verbal person suffixes. They are mostly used in formal speech. sg1-il sg2 -ic sg1+sg2 -icl sg3 -iš pl1-ila' pl2 -ica' pl1+sg2 -icla' pl3 -iša' Past participle -i'. Mūcil 'I walk about' Mūcic 'Y...

Consonant declension DIR prēv 'the house' LOC prēvu 'in the house' DAT prēvụ 'to the house' ABL prēve 'from the house' ESS prēvr 'as the house' SOS prēvlu 'with the house' Plural DIR prēvạ 'houses' LOC prēvạve DAT prēvạq ABL prēvạe ESS prēvr ~ prēvrạ SOS prēvlu ~ prēvlạ The consonantal i-declension ...

I'm updating the case system. As a list, it is more boring but syntactically, it is more interesting. Direct (subject, direct object) Locative (location, instrument) Dative (recipient, goal, some genitive functions) Ablative (source, badly defined complements 'concerning', some genitive functions) E...

NGamira is a name for my one project.

p t k ʔ
f θ s x h
m n ŋ
ɾ

i i᷈ u u᷈
e e᷈ o o᷈
a a᷈

There could also be some kind of a glottalized/creaky voice vowel quality.

CV syllables
V can appear word-initially but /ɾ/ cannot.

Makes 130 syllables.