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Something inspired by Mongolic. p t tˠ t͡ɕ t͡ʃˠ k b d dˠ d͡ʑ d͡ʒˠ m n nˠ ŋ s sˠ ɕ ʃˠ h~ɣ ɬ ɬˠ l lˠ j Velarization is contrastive before front vowels. Postalveolar-palatal affricates and sibilants also contrast before back vowels. Clusters of two consonants could appear frequently. Maybe Georgian-sty...

Telicity is only marked on transitive verbs. The following table describes the affixes used for different forms. You could be interested in control vs. noncontrol forms in some native American languages. One emphasizes the subject +agentive +volitional but maybe failed One emphasizes the object +co...

thethief3 wrote: ↑28 Apr 2024 08:59 x in free variation with x

Are you once again noting the bug in the page/font that the velar and uvular fricatives look the same with some devices.

Arayaz wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024 18:05

Omzinesý wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024 16:49What could be the semantic difference between (1) and (2)?

It could be a distinction between a permanent and temporary state? Unless you have some other way to express that.

It is a bit strange to code it only in the third person with on explicit subject.

p t k q
k͡x q͡χ
s x~χ h
β j l ɰ
β̰ j̰ l̰ ɰ̰
m n ŋ
m̰ n̰ ŋ̰

i u
ə
ɛ ɑ

Xiwook nouns and adjectives can have a personal prefix when they are predicates, (2). (1) Kono cuur. K beautiful 'Kono is beautiful.' (2) Kono sa-cuur. K SG3-beautiful 'Kono is beautiful.' The prefix is obligatory if there is no explicit subject, (3). (3) Sa-cuur. Sg3-beautiful 'She/he/it is beautif...

I should start the verb. The current idea of the pattern is: -2 preverb (mainly directional, but some of them have developed aspectual and other meanings) -1 incorporated noun 0 stem (All kinds of transitivity alternations and aspectual derivation.) 1 mood 2 person - There might be two genders that ...

Vowel-final nouns have fʉʉ 'thing, object (concrete)' case word ending NOM INDEF fʉʉ - NOM DEF fʉʉʔ -a ASS fʉʉs ASS INDEF fʉʉsi -si ASS DEF fʉʉta -ta LOC INDEF fʉʉn -n LOC DEF fʉʉʔn -an VOC fʉʉʔa -a I also added a vocative case. It's ending is the same as that of the definite nominative, but the end...

conlang-creature wrote: ↑23 Apr 2024 01:35 ɑ ə i <a e i>

That looks like a vertical vowel system. They are cool! (Actually a 45 degrees vowel system.)

Usually consonants in such languages have coarticulations, e.g. labialization, that cause the vowels have more allophones.

Associative has three main uses. (The idea has been recycled many times between my languages.) 1. Comitative 'I'm travelling with my friend . (I cannot translate that yet.) 2. Possessed Ka-han-s-i SG1-donkey-ASS-INDEF 'I have a donkey.' 3. Coordination of two nouns saah-t-a ha'n hut-ASS-INDEF donkey...

I really like this! The plural formation is awesome. Vowel system is also cool as heck. I could add /ɬ/. It gives some Native American feel. I'm very much a lateral fricative junkie, and you're right that it's common in North America, especially the Pacific Northwest, which is my favorite place in ...

I could add /ɬ/.
It gives some Native American feel.

I've been interested in prestopped consonant( cluster)s lately. Maybe a Germanic lang could also have t/k -> ʔ after the past marker.

so:k 'to seek'
so:ʔ-t 'sought'

Plural formation Most nouns form their plurals with "full" reduplication. The normal reduction of the first stem of lexicalized compounds include: Final /t, k/ -> ʔ Final /p, k w / -> h Final geminate -> short consonant (blocks the two rules above) When forming plurals also: Vowel shortens...

Words that often appear in Locative usually have a shorter Locative form where the nasal assimilates with the stem. The definite Locative is analogically formed like Nominative of a nasal-final word . saap 'cottage ~ hut' case word ending NOM INDEF saap - NOM DEF saapa <a> ASS INDEF saa(h)si -si ASS...

sek 'to be dead' ssek 'to die' (middle voice makes statives inchoatives) bosek 'to kill with hands' (an instrumental prefix adds a causative meaning to an (unaccusative) intransitive verb) bossek 'one's hand becomes paralyzed' (adding an instrumental prefix to a middle voice form expresses the body ...

This lang could have some random morphology. pʰ tʰ kʰ p t k b d g t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʂ ʈ͡ɬ d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʐ ɖ͡ɮ s ɬ ɕ ʂ ɬ z ʑ ʐ mʰ nʰ m n ŋ l r ɭ ɽ s ʃ x z ʒ ʋ j i ɨ u e ə o ä Most words are monosyllabic. The syllable structure is: C(G)V(C), where G is a glide (ʋ j). When the coda is an obstruent or lacks, the sy...

First off, if this would be better suited for a different thread (the Linguistics & Natlangs one specifically), it's fine to move it. Anyway, when dividing morpheme boundaries in a gloss, what does one do if a morpheme is separable, but has an effect on the root? Specifically: fulh "to mak...

I read https://medium.com/predict/how-complex-is-dolphins-communication-9b77065e313d Dolphin language seems to be even more complex than that of humans. They can send two messages simultaneously. I once tried to make a conlang like that but it never went far. But it also seems that the names are all...

I'm considering a Chinese-style compounding system because the monosyllabic roots are so short.

To say 'book' you have to compound two nearly synonymous roots 'volume-book'.