The CBB

Relative clauses Relative clauses in Kobardon are introduced with the particle ut at their beginning. They employ a gapping strategy, i.e. there is neither an overt relative pronoun in the relative clause, nor a resumptive pronoun. In place of the missing argument, there is just a gap. Note, howeve...

Fredauon Fun Fact #43: The nomadic people living in the very northwest of The Continent where integreated into the Wizard Republic early on. The traditional hospitality code was codified and each district has public ground for the nomads to camp with their auk herds. They usual trade with the sessi...

Any distinction could be coded with tones.

I though syncretism could exist of the SIM form and ANT or POST forms in either the counterfactual or the non-factual forms.

I would say Counterfactual anterior or posterior. You could also introduce syncretism into the system btw.

Just wanted to mention that human scientists have of course tried to classify smell. Wikipedia has a subheading of FIDOL factors in their article on smell with one possible system.

Fredauon Fun Fact #42: One main purpose of the state in the Wizard Republic is the (re-)distribution of resources. If one part of the republic has a drought and a bad harvest, the granaries will be opened and food resources will be redirected to the affected population. This 'tax' system traditiona...

Inspired by Greek Mythology and Gnosticism?

Creyeditor, are those glosses ? Did you, like, already have knowledge of linguistics before you began? I added the glosses retroactively [:D] As I said, the whole documentation was a German-Agrigropiapicz dictionary from Aa to Ab, a few additional words, and a few DinA5 pages of notes on grammar, m...

These are sentences in the very first conlang of mine, which did not have a name. I created it when I was 10 y.o., just grammar and words, no real phonology (it is basically the german phonology) Dlen snafi iwoforn. [dlɛn ˈsna.fi ˈʔi.vo.foʁn] Dlen snafi iwofor-n. INDEF.N eel forge-VERB An eel hamme...

- Another engelang in which instead of pronouns there are variables, and each verb takes as arguments two variables that are phonologically combined and inserted as a single phone into a twoliteral roots; for example, if like is l-k, and we want to say A likes E, we say læk, because A+E=Æ. I always...

Fredauon Fun Fact #41: Wizard historians standardly divide the history and prehistory of Fredauon into eras. The initial period is the Era Of Anthropogenesis, where evolution lead to the speciation of humans. This is followed by the Era Of Population (aka the Era Of Settlement), where humans spread...

Fredauon Fun Fact #40 The elves traditionally live in tree houses, i.e. cabin-like buildings constructed on large tree branches. Historically, they were only used for ritual purposes and in times of war but during the Great War they became the standard housing. They are still in use after the Great...

I like the gaps in your phoneme inventory. No /f/ (amd you still have the labiodental approximant) and no /x/. Also, you rarely see a conlang without /b/. As for the vowels, /au/ (and /ou/, /eu/) are also interesting gaps.

[+1] to everything Sal said. Regarding Crey's suggestion of initial vowel reduction: this is possible but not necessary. Essentially, unstressed and reduced vowels will be more likely to be influenced by nearby vowels; this is particularly useful if you want total harmony (where unstressed vowels en...

One hypothesis for a diachronic pathway to vowel harmony is reduction of unstressed vowels (such that the later harmonizing feature is not contrastive anymore) and the assimilation of the unstressed voweks to the stressed one.

Fascinating idea

I am not sure about the terminology but I thought of a one-way pair as two one-way streets (with opposing directions) that are independent and separated by some space. If you would turn left (assuming you drive on the right-hand lane) and then go straight, you would still have to cross the opposing ...

I was thinking they might have something like one-way pairs.

I'd be in on that.

Extinct quillwort trees *here*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigillaria?wprov=sfla1