The CBB

It's possible that I will split this project into a lang inspired by Greek and Baltic and the Saami stuff.
Salishan control is still preserved.

Is it likely to have one word in a set loaned and another word not loaned? For example, I loaned one word from another language meaning "bridegroom" and have another word natively derived meaning "bride." I reckon these type of words are usually not loaned individually, but counterexamples would be...

I'm also adding an aspect distinction: Nonhabitual vs. Habitual. I don't know how it plays with Control but they are not the same thing however. So there are eight forms: Aspect x Control x Tense Noncontrol x Habitual x Present and Noncontrol x Habitual x Past and Control x Habitual x Past are expre...

The new consonant phoneme inventory p t͡s t k c f s θ ç x v z ð j ɣ m n ɲ r l ʎ p t͡s t k c f s θ ç x v z ð j ɣ m n ɲ r l ʎ Consonants have three lenghts. Over-long consonants are though prevoiced. Plosives: t t: d:t Voiceless fricatives: θ θ: ðθ Voiced fricatives: ð ð: ð:θ Liquids: l l: l:: Nasals ...

Note: Estonian ilus 'beautiful' is derived from ilu 'beauty'. -s is also Inessive marker thus

"Ma olen ilus." can either be analyzed as 'I am (a) beautiful.' or 'I am in beauty.'

That could be generalized in a conlang.

Idea:

The phoneme inventory takes inspiration from Modern Greek and the morphology takes inspiration from Estonian.

Currently thinking about making a Slavic language. My idea right now is for one that maintained Greek as its liturgical language rather than Church Slavonic and was in general more closely connected to Greece. Grammar would be similar to the Southern Slavic languages but vocabulary and phonology wo...

p t t͡s c k <p t t/ti k/ki k>
f θ s ç x <ph th s kh/khi kh>
v ð z j ɣ <v d z g/gi g>
m n ɲ <m n ni>
l ʎ <l li>
r <r>

Something based on Modern Greek.
<t> is always t͡s before /i/
Velars merge with palatals before front vowels.

Homestly I don't know what's worth conlanging in this.

Nominalizations Nominalizations are formed by just adding the nominal suffixes to the end of the clause. Because clauses always end in a verb, the nominal endings are also added to the verb. [t͡soq'o tʰozi t͡sɔpa: ɛ:zɛ:p'at̚] [Zoq'o thosi zaopa]-g aegsaenp'at. Zoq'o thosi zaop-a-g aegs-aenp'-a-t Z p...

I will add Partitive case.

- Head of numbers and other quantifyers
- Abstract noun as a modifyer 'man of honour'
- material something is made of.
- Nonspecific argument in negative clauses 'any N'
- Maybe used of mass nouns more generally

Verbs Incorporation is where I usually fail my langs. I'm not paying attention to it. It may appear but morphologically it is just positioning the object noun in the unmarked form before the verb. All grammatical morphemes are suffixes. The pattern 0[stem] 1[inchohative/cessative/voice] 2[aspect/neg...

I like it! Verb-final languages that have morphosyntax highly influenced by pragmatic salience, would probably put the topic first, and put the focus in Wackernagel position, right next to the verb. I think. At least according to M.H. Klaiman. Grammatical Voice. In the series Cambridge Studies in L...

Syntax (Nearly) Every clause has either a Topic marker or a Focus marker. They (usually) appear as enclitics in the first word of the clause. They also express evidentiality. The word order is strict: verb-last and Topic/Focus first. The copula can sometimes be dropped. Coq'o-g t'ini [ba]. Coq'o-∅-g...

There are no adjectives. Characteristics are expressed by nominalized verbs or nouns in Equeative case or Similative case. Equeative means 'who is N' while Similative means 'who is like N' t'ini 'child' t'inih Coq'o 'the young Coq'o / Coq'o who is a child' t'inil Coq'o 'the childish Coq'o / Coq' who...

If the NP is marked as Topic, its case is Nominative, Accusative (or some other case). If the NP is not marker as Topic, its case is Absolutive, Ergative (or some other case). Typically, the transitive subject is marked as Topic and appears in zero-marked Nominative and the transitive object is not ...

p' t' s'~t͡s' k' q' pʰ tʰ sʰ~t͡sʰ kʰ qʰ p t s~t͡s k q ʔ h β ð z ɣ ʁ (usually intervocalic) m n r l j w <p' t' c' k' q'> <ph th ch kh qh> <p t c k q '> <h> <b d g x> <m n> <r l> <j w> i u <i u> e o <e o> ɛ ɔ <ae ao> ä <a> Phonotactics (C)(C)V(C) But - only allowed onset consonant clusters are {plosiv...

Some ideas derive from Quechua. The language is agglutinative and suffixing. The categories expressed morphologically are: NOUNS Cases Syntactic cases zero Nominative/Absolutive -t(a) Accusative -qaq Ergative Cases usually appearing as modifiers -yu Assosiative -h Equative -l Similative -chan Compar...

Idea: split alignment based on topicality of the noun The language has a special topic marker. If the NP is marked as Topic, its case is Nominative, Accusative (or some other case). If the NP is not marker as Topic, its case is Absolutive, Ergative (or some other case). Typically, the transitive sub...

And another phoneme inventory p' t' s'~t͡s' k' q' pʰ tʰ sʰ~t͡sʰ kʰ qʰ p t s~t͡s k q ʔ h β ð z ɣ ʁ (usually intervocally) m n r l j w i u e o ɛ ɔ ä Vowels can be long, which is a reflex of compensatory lengthening from a sonorant. Phonotactics (C)(C)V(C) But - only allowed onset consonant clusters ar...

Number system is still not ready. Just a note for myself

1 gij
2 sat
3 pos
4 jaki
5 bø