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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 saahci -si ASS D...

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'.

Salmoneus wrote: ↑10 Apr 2024 23:04Short version: dolphins appear to introduce themselves by saying their own name when they meet other dolphins.

It could be a possible way to say 'Hello' in a human culture, too.
'Hi, I'm Omzinesý!', though I had met the person zillion times and they well knew who I am.

The newest Dlor word is jäd . It means both '(to be) easy' and '(to be) talented' '(to be) good at something'. If you are good at conversations, you are easy to converse with. S-mon jäd ra na-bosek. DEF-man JÄD COMPL ANTIP-kill 'The man is good at killing.' Jäd ra bosek s-mon. JÄD COMPL kill DEF-man...

Nice that Kobardon is still active!

My mind is wandering. An unnamed lang Vowels (The inventory happens to be like that of Pashto.) i u <i u> e ə o <ai e au> æ ɒ <a o> Diphthongs ei~æi, eu~æu, oi~ɒi, ou~ɒu <ei, eu, oi, ou> (The first component can thus be closed or mid.) The stress always lies on the second syllable. - ə only appears ...

Did I already mention my idea of a Finnic language with this vowel inventory. i ɨ u e o ä Length is contrastive. Starting from Finnish-ish y i u ø e o æ ɑ Short y, ø -> ɨ Long ø: -> ɨ: Long y: -> yi (as in Estonian), put interpreted as /ui/ Long ɑ: in non-initial syllables -> ɨ Genitive -n lengthens...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑11 Apr 2024 17:27 colloquial German zu Fuß 'by foot, directly, without additional tools'.

How grammaticalized it is? Is some movement still needed in semantics?

Body parts are such a big thing in Dlor. I would like to find a new idea, but they really are very useful.

Maybe Dlor does not need a distinct prefix for body parts as instruments and objects.

If the object is the subject's own body part, adding a middlevoice marker is enough.
But if it is the object's body part?

Indo-European and some other languages use prepositions as verb prefixes to code different adverbial functions (lexical affixes which I've been interested in for a while). What other morphemes could develop to lexical affixes and still preserve their original functio? Multi-purpose morphemes are one...