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DV82LECM wrote: ↑22 Oct 2020 17:43 I'm curious, why did you decide against /ʋ/ being in a co-articulated consonant cluster? Of any which that could be, THAT would have definitely given off an Indian vibe.

I'm not trying to be especially Indian. I just feel this lang has some indian vibe. Probably it is just my personal feeling.

First attempts for the declensions "Consonantal" declension - Stems ending in a consonant - Stems ending in a liquid - Stems ending in a short i. Singular Direct -Ø Ergative ? Genitive -e Locative -u Essive -r Sosiative - ? Plural Direct -a. Ergative ? Genitive -ã Locative -uju Essive -r Sosiative -...

Genders Ulion has four genders, though the status of the two latter ones may be argued. Masculine (males, other random nouns) Feminine (females, diminutives ending in -i, other random nouns) Collective (Plurals of all nouns belong to this gender. Also collective nouns, like 'family', belong to it.) ...

Ulion or Uliōn [ʊlɪ'(j)ɔ:n] is my newest conlanging project. My feeling is that it has some Indian (of India) but idk. There seems to be some effect from DesEsseintes' Ch’eweyõw̌e, as well. I think it is not too heavy. Consonants p t t͡s t͡ʂ t͡ɕ k q <p t c č ć k q> s ʂ ɕ <s š ś> m n ŋ ɴ <m n nk nq> ...

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LinguoFranco wrote: ↑07 Sep 2019 21:31
Nde mendetupe lasu

I swim to land.
nde ra.mbi na t͡ɕo.na

This seems to be a satellite-framed lang. A goal argument can be added to all motion verbs. They don't say 'I swim and go to land'.

Many languages can combine an applicative and a passive. That basically leads to the same result. That is actually the etymology of the Philipine circumstantial Citation needed, maybe? Ross, so far as I can see, reconstructs a PMP circumstantial affix that's simply <b>i-</b>, which doesn't look tra...

What does Verb Marker ni do?

In conlanging, I have supposed/defined that the circumstantial voice just promotes something that is not a subject or a (direct) object into the subject. (What Subject is in each language, depend on language and thus affects what Circumstantial really is.) I know such voices appear in very few mayb...

In conlanging, I have supposed/defined that the circumstantial voice just promotes something that is not a subject or a (direct) object into the subject. (What Subject is in each language, depend on language and thus affects what Circumstantial really is.) I know such voices appear in very few maybe...

I’m posting these questions to this Quick Question thread because I’ve been told I start too many threads that won’t generate much content or response and that violates the No Spam rule. ..... What’s the difference between the Austronesian/Philippine Morphosyntactic Alignment on the one hand, and S...

Something about syntax 1) I'm testing a system where nouns and verbs are syntactically similar. That is, every noun can be seen as a predicate 'to be X' and every verb can be seen as a noun 'Xer'. This appears in Tongan and Salishan, so I did not invent it myself. We will see if it really succeeds....

When a noun is preceded by a modifier, it often undergoes a initial consonant lenition. Morphologically, the lenited form could be colled Construct state, with an non-typological term. Voiceless/aspirated stops become voiced stops. Voiced stops become voiced fricatives. /s/ is voiced to /z/. Vowel-i...

Pekadja zeba (or pekadjazeba) is my newest project. "Pekadja" is the name of the people. "Seba" means language. So it's just 'the language of Pekadjas' It is a-priori. Consonants p t t͡ʂ k <p t ch k> b d d͡ʐ g <b d dj g> β ɹ ʐ ɣ <v r j q> s h <s h> z <z> m n <m n> l <l> j w <y w> Vowels i u <i u> e ...

What could be the origin of retroflex affricates? In Slavic languages, they usually derive from palatals/postalveolars after new palatalization has pushed them to retroflexes. In Swedish, retroflexes derive from /r/ + a velar, but they are not affricates. I think English <tr> is pronounced as an af...

I think "case languages" are actually simpler than those without. In "case languages" cases express semantic roles (who does and who is done to) and word order expresses topicality (about whom the clause is about). Of course, cases can well be adpositions rather than morphological cases. Boring Finn...

What could be the origin of retroflex affricates? In Slavic languages, they usually derive from palatals/postalveolars after new palatalization has pushed them to retroflexes. In Swedish, retroflexes derive from /r/ + a velar, but they are not affricates. I think English <tr> is pronounced as an aff...

A new phonology p t t͡ʂ t͡ɕ k <p t ch cy k> b d d͡ʐ d͡ʑ g <b d jh jy g> ɹ ʐ j w <r zh y w> s h <s h> z <z> m n ɳ ɲ ŋ <m n nh ny ng> l ɭ ʎ <l lh ly> OR MAYBE p t t͡ʂ k <p t ch k> b d d͡ʐ g <b d j g> β ɹ ɻ ɣ <v r rh gh> s h <s h> z <z> m n ɳ <m n nh> l ɭ <l lh> j w <y w> OR MAYBE p t t͡ʂ k <p t ch k> ...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑07 Sep 2020 20:11

Fist attempt for the declensions

Fist attempt?

I guess it'll not be the final version.
I don't even know if /o/ is mid-low or mid-high, which will be distinct in Pākíka.

Fist attempt for the declensions There is still much to do with development of the vowels, so the declension is preliminary, as well. The o-declension ekos 'horse, stallion' Singular NOM ekos ACC eko < eko: < eko-m GEN-ABL eku < eku: < eko: <eko:-d LOC-DAT eki < eki: < eko-i ESS ekút < ekust < eko:s...