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I'm thinking about weights and feet of words. Stress lies on the first syllable. --- One alternative would be that all stressed syllables are strong (have a long/glottalized vowel or have a stronger coda). kāl kaal kall kalk But not *kal or ka But I would like to have weak stressed syllables. Maybe ...

The latest attempt for the verb vul 'to say' vul-te 'I say' vul-ve 'you (sg.) say' vul 'say(s)' vul-ā-te 'we (excl.) say' vul-ā-ge 'we (incl.) say' vul-ā-ve 'you (pl.) say' vul-ā 'they say (impersonal)' vuj-ti 'I said' vuj-vi 'you (sg.) said' vuj 'said' vul-ā-ti 'we (excl.) said' vul-ā-gi 'we (incl...

Because Prīge and Jiimon share many of the same ideas and because I decided to concentrate on Prīge for a while, I can well add the adjective idea from Jiimon. Nouns have two genders: Common and Neuter. Adjectives agree the gender of their head. The last syllable of most (there must always be except...

I'm surprised that "dating, romantics, sex, sexuality" hasn't been suggested in the previous Lexembers.

Okay, German Phonology traditionally includes three types of syllables: stressed, unstressed, and reduced. In stressed sylllables you can have any vowel (but lax/short vowels need to be followed by a consonant). In reduced syllables only schwa can occur (and a-schwa/vocalized r, as well as syllabic...

Can all (Standard) German vowels, including the long ones, appear in all syllables, stressed and unstressed?
Long vowels in unstressed syllables seem to appear but only word-finally "klima" "opa" ?
Wikipedia seems to say nothing about that.

What about emotions and feelings?

TBPO wrote: ↑16 Nov 2024 15:00 What stress should have Arkasian? I'm sure that stress rules will have Latin-like complexity and they will be associated with long vowels.

What is your question?

A possible name for the language is Prīge ['pɾi:ʀɛ].

Plural form of nouns There are only two cases: Nominative and Genitive-Accusative. They work syntactically as expected, no weird alignments. Nominative is the basic stem of nouns. The rules of Genitive-Accusative formation A) If the noun ends in a stop (p, t, k), the stop changes to the correspondin...

Instrumental prefixes could be added to adjective roots (if they exist) to form exocentric (bahuvrihi) compounds. Instrumental prefixes usually derive from a body part. ku-mor mouth-big 'talkative' They stay adjectives instead of becoming verbs as instrumental prefixes usually do. They are ideosync...

What interesting secondary meanings do causatives have? I have read quite much about them years ago but no idea comes to my mind. I'd like to have a causative in Jiimon but I wouldn't like to have just a causative but something broader. Finnish has this so called emotional causative. Minä panen SG1....

Adjectives The last vowel of adjectives is a long vowel when the head is Common gender and a glottalized vowel when the head is a Neuter. mälān aron 'powerful man' mälaan kihin 'a powerful corporation' The possible last consonant after the vowel might have some classificatory function (say physical,...

The word of the day: vaa'ankieliosavaltio 'swing state' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vaa%27ankieliosavaltio#Finnish Of course there is no such concept in Finland. It is a compound of two compounds: vaa'ankieli 'pointer' (at least according to the Wiktionary page) and osavaltio 'state'. Vaa'ankieli...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑06 Nov 2024 15:32 Full reduplication on a four syllable word? That’s a bold move.

I love living on the edge!

Such long words are always derivations. Maybe reduplicating them isn't that frequent but possible.
Nominal roots are bisyllabic.

There are three open word classes, nouns, verbs, and adjectives. Not so surprising. Nouns Nouns have very little inflection. Plural is formed by full reduplication. aron 'a man' aronaron 'men' Compound nouns only reduplicate the last root. Reduplication of inanimate plural nouns is optional. There a...

Phonology Phonemes Consonants p t tˠ t͡ʃ t͡ʃˠ k <p t tg c cg k> b d dˠ d͡ʒ d͡ʒˠ g <b d dg j jg g> ɓ ɗ ɗˠ ɗ͡ʒ ɗ͡ʒˠ <bb dd ddg jj jjg> s sˠ (ʃ ʃˠ) h <s sg (s sg) h> z zˠ (ʒ ʒˠ) <z zg (z zg)> m n nˠ ŋ <m n ng ŋ> l lˠ <l lg> ɹ ɹˠ j w <r rg j w> Short vowels i u <i u> e o <e i> æ ɑ <ä a> Long vowels i: ...

Jiimon ['d͡ʒiˀi.mɔn] is my latest project. Like most of my resent projects, it's much based on my older projects. It is a priori.

Creyeditor wrote: ↑02 Nov 2024 03:25 I added sample sentences for Omlueuet and Kobardon to my website.

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I have a project where preverbs code associated motion. The preverbs are alike with prepositions. I'm thinking coding deixis with stressing the preverb or not. (pseudo-English examples) in-spóke 'came in and spoke' ín-spoke 'went in and spoke' I haven't though found up a historical development that ...