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Nominal Inflection I Nouns are declined for number, definitness and take possessor marking. The first two dimension make binary distinctions. Number can either be singular or plural. Definiteness distinguishes between definite and indefinite. Possessor marking only encodes the person of the possess...

My first bit of conworlding where the ßpringer, who lived caves and whose main mode of locomotion was jumping. They also had an alphabet based on picture of caves and jumping using the remus principle. Their anatomy probably included at least one spring. I don't remember anything else. I kind of wa...

My first bit of conworlding were the ßpringer, who lived in caves and whose main mode of locomotion was jumping. They also had an alphabet based on picture of caves and jumping using the remus principle. Their anatomy probably included at least one spring. I don't remember anything else. Fixed some ...

Inspired by mainland south east asian langs: /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n nh ng> /ɓ b ɗ d t tʰ c cʰ k kʰ/ <b p đ d t th c ch k kh> /β f v s z ʃ x/<v ph w x gi s kh> /w r l j/<qu r l y> /i iː ɯ ɯː u uː/<ị i ự ư ụ u> /e eː ɤ ɤː o oː/<ẹ e ợ ơ ọ o> /a a:/<ạ a> Tone and phonation are combined. high level tone, creaky:...

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑28 Nov 2024 16:45 Can only certain types of words be stressed?

One idea I have for a conlang has fixed stressed on the final syllable of words. However, this stress only applies to lexical words, while function words are unaccented.

Yes, some people have even suggested the idea that this is a universal tendency.

Fredauon Fun Fact #53: There at least two competing views on the body and soul in the Wizard Republic. The traditional view is that the body is combined with a 'spark', which seeks to reunite with the sun godess by accumulating knowledge. Neither the body nor the substance of the spark have a consc...

What are some good resources on the diachrony of Baltic languages? Especially, the development after Proto-Balto-Slavic.

Object Agreement Verbal inflection also marks object agreement and the passive voice. Verbs only agree in person with their object. Object marking does not distinguish between singular and plural. Therefore, these meanings are conflated into one form. First and second person are used as expected. T...

I have currently 108 pronouns in Arkasian, but only 66 of them are unique and remaining 42 are just other pronouns with a suffix. The question is: should I count the pronouns as lexical entries? If yes, what pronouns? [hr] There are 4 options: 1) Count ALL pronouns, including these with a suffix. 2...

Wait, is this a conlang or a natlang?

How true geminates can be analysed depends on how the speakers of this conlang would analyse them. If they were to divide words into syllables, or use some kind of infix, do they treat the geminate as: A singular stop with delayed release /a.tʼːa/? An assimilation process where the stops are underl...

So phonetically, I was thinking that you want a prolonged closure and a single ejective release. I would use it for any combination of ejectives and plain plosives.
Why would it matter if you use /tʼ.tʼ/ or /t.tʼ/ in the phonemic transcription?

Cel-Mica wrote: ↑22 Nov 2024 05:40

• Have the cluster become an ejective geminate, e.g. t + tʼ > ttʼ [tʼː]

I like this option best.

I really like this phonology. The vowel system looks kind of strange in a Germanic kind of way but the vowel crushing makes it look like there is some hidden pattern somewhere. The consonant system looks nicely Anatolic but also generically intetesting. I also like the constraint based description o...

Well, Klima and Opa are both stressed on the first syllable. The second syllable is unstressed and has a short /a/ in all dialects. This fits my description if you assume that short /a/ patterns with short lax vowels.

Okay, German Phonology traditionally includes three types of syllables: stressed, unstressed, and reduced. In stressed sylllables you can have any vowel (but lax/short vowels need to be followed by a consonant). In reduced syllables only schwa can occur (and a-schwa/vocalized r, as well as syllabic ...

Yes. Confusingly these are sometimes also called clitics. Other terms that I have seen include outer affixes or particles. You might also want to look at Martin Haspelmath's blog post on phonological weldedness: https://dlc.hypotheses.org/1779.

Stress the final syllable if it has a long vowel, otherwise stress the penultimate syllable.

Ooh, that's interesting. Sounds similar to what happens pragmatically in other languages.

Yes, so what does past tense minus certainitive mean? Would it be "He might have taken the money." (vs. "He took the money.")?