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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.

Where is your website?

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 ...

Palatalization patterns

t/c/č -> ć
k -> š
s/š -> ś
l -> j
n -> ŋ

Labials p m v
palatals ć ś j ŋ
rhotics r g
don't palatalize.

On prepositions and preverbs The same morphemes can be used before nouns and verbs. Because preposition is a more familiar concept, I start from using them it before nouns. Each of them has two deictic forms, which are suppletive but alike. The only preposition/preverb I have atm is s(e)- or si-. U...

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....

Which languages use palatalization/assibilation as a morphological marker in their verb paradigms?
Latvian verb is interesting but I need other languages for reference for not copying one.
Conlangs are welcomed too.

I know some languages contrast between palatalized and velarized consonants, but would it be unusual for a language to have contrasts between plain and velarized? I know some languages kinda do this like Gilbertese and Kurdish, but it's usually two or three consonants at most. In some varieties of ...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑20 Oct 2024 20:54 ćnapus looks beautifully faux-Latin.

It's easy. Just add -us.

ćnap- ’to build’ ćnapus 'builder' This is a zero-copula language in present third person. So ćnapus also means 'to be a builder' and it's usually used in habitual and iterative meanings. So ćnapus means 'usually builds'. I have some problems forming the non-habitual (progressive and perfective) para...

Adjectives Adjectives are probably the most agglutinative word class. Adjectives agree the gender and number of their head. I couldn't come up with better endings -e singular masculine -a singular feminine -i plural Adjectives have some kind of case inflection too. There could be a nominative case a...

Verb pattern preverb - valency derivation - stem - TAM - person Preverbs resemble prepositions,but they bear the stress of the word. When added to 1) motion verbs, they code the direction of the motion. 2) non-motion verbs, they code additional movement (to go and verb, to come and verb, etc.) 3) no...

Hopefully I haven't posted the same inventory before p t tˠ k <p t tg k> b d dˠ <b d dg> ɓ ɗ ɗˠ <bb dd ddg> β ɹ ɹˠ ɣ <v r rg g> l lˠ j <l lg y> m n nˠ ŋ <m n ng ŋ> s sˠ <s sg> z zˠ <z zg> i i: iˀi u u: uˀu <u ū uu i ī ii> e e: eˀe o o: oˀo <e ē ee o ō oo> äˀä <a ā aa> Phonotactics (C)V(C) The coda ...

I like Sbäk e Dlor, but I lik espesially these ideas: -4 modations (normal, high, breathy, creaky), -lateral-released plosives, -closed class of adjectives, which can't be used as predicates. I'm going to use the last one in Arkasian. Nice I also like Dlor. That's probably why it's my least uncompl...