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There are eight motion verbs, which is a big part of all verbs in the language. All of them are derived from the root g-. The vowel expresses path. u 'enter' a 'to go about' i 'to leave' e 'to visit' The intransitive motion verbs are thus gu 'to enter' ga 'to go about' gi 'to leave' ge 'to visit' Th...

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I started mine 21 Jan 2013, 21:58

Pronouns

mi 'I'
ti 'you (sg.)'
si 'he, she, it, they'

mimi 'we (excl.)'
miti 'we (incl)'
titi 'you (pl.)'

Demonstratives are derived from pronouns.
ma 'this'
ta 'that (near you)'
sa 'that'
mata 'this (near us)'

Phonology Onset consonants p t ts k b d g s m n l j w Coda consonants n Stressed vowels i u e o ä <a> Unstressed vowels i u ä <a> Phonotactics is simple. (C)V(n) The first syllable is stressed. In compounds, the first syllable of the non-first roots can be stressed but less heavily than the first one.

Ma-lengi is the newest version of my auxlang projects. I well understand that nobody will ever speak it. Its goal is to be as good as possible if it were spoken. Afa-Mutu is among the earlier versions https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7790 . Ma-Lengi means something like This Language or My Langu...

Nothing super strange but I think this is a nice idea.

A lang has many ambitransitive verbs like 'to hook' and 'to boil' in the present.
Their perfective past forms are though formed with 'to have' when they have an agent and 'to be' when they don't.

:con: Naguil Enda lirge feiri rengien, belen nyrie mel ilyrman ennia aidhera kenn. /ɛn'daː 'liːrgə 'fɛiri 'rɛŋgjɛn | 'beːlɛn 'nyːriɛ mɛl i'lyːrman ɛn'jaː aɪ̯'ðɛːra 'kɛnː/ En-da lirg-e feir-i reng-ien, bel-en nyr-ie m-el i-lyrm-an en-n-ia ai-dher-a kenn-ø. 3SG-COP.PRS matter-NOM life-ATTR hairy-ADJ....

I made new Dlor words. I haven't done them during the whole summer.

maj 'to be rich', 'to be expensive'
máj 'money'
mâj 'fortune', 'property'

I could make a new lang with Nominative and Accusative cases, Accusative being formed with nasalizing the last consonant. NOM malat ACC malan NOM muruć ACC murunś Many words have identical cases. I tested this in a Uralic language, which seems to be stuck. Maybe I could still make an apriori lang. ...

Before I ended up being Uralic, I thought the lang could have just the two cases. If this is a Uralic lang, it should probably have other cases. If belongs to the Western group, the one I know something about, it should have s-cases. Ablative -sat Ergessive -pat Locative -sa Approximative -pas Lativ...

A "semireflexive" pronoun that refers to a group that the subject belongs to! The context of use: He led them[the group he is included to] to the town. That sounds cool. Would it contrast with a 'proper' plural reflexive? That was my idea. If there is a plural contrast in reflexive pronou...

A "semireflexive" pronoun that refers to a group that the subject belongs to!

The context of use:
He led them[the group he is included to] to the town.

Verbs could have 1) Three tenses: present, past, future 2) three (mega)modalities: indicative, subjective, negative (,and maybe special imperative and prohibitive) 3) three "declension": basic, anticausative, object declension (one with definite or emphasized object) and subject agreement.

p' t̪' tˠ' k'
pʰ t̪ʰ tˠʰ kʰ
p t̪ tˠ k
m n̪ nˠ
s sˠ
l̪ lˠ
ɟ͡ʝ~j g͡ɣ~ɣ g͡w~w

I had a diachronic phonology idea recently. What if we start with a bisyllabic root proto-lang and then take two radically different routes on what gets altered. Imagine three proto-lang roots *kwusa, *kita, *bome Lang 1 does intervocalic lenition first. This gives you glottal fricatives, glottal s...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Aug 2024 02:24 Eldinesque question: Is Lubbek spoken in Lubbock, Texas?

Ælfwine wrote: ↑28 Aug 2024 08:47

Khemehekis wrote: ↑28 Aug 2024 02:24 Eldinesque question: Is Lubbek spoken in Lubbock, Texas?

Clearly it is spoken in Lübeck, Germany

Both!

Nouns There are seven noun classes. I: Animates singulars II: Animate plurals, groups III-V Inanimate singular VI Inanimate plural VII Abstract Vocalization patterns of nouns code their class. One class may have several patterns Nearly all nouns have two vowels: CVCVC The class I has six possible pa...

There are only two cases: Nominative and Genitive-Accusative. They work syntactically as expected, no weird alignments. Nominative is the basic stem of nouns. koot 'house' koić 'man' veer 'blood' The Proto-Uralic accusative suffix was -m and the Genitive(-dative) suffix was -n. Both of them develope...

Visions1 wrote: ↑23 Aug 2024 10:36 Wait till you see Lithuanian. I refuse to believe the language was not influenced by their blood alcohol content.

What's so strange in it?

Salmoneus wrote: ↑22 Aug 2024 15:23 The only difficult bit here is explaining why every verb in the entire language has a diphthong in it!

Maybe it's enough that everyone verb that has a diphthong has such a process. In English the number of words with diphthongs is big.