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Shoshoni /nɨwɨ/ "Shoshoni Person" vs Nahuatl <Nahua> /Nawa/ "Nahua Person". Despite being self-designations for Uto-Aztecan speaking people, that are of the form /nVwV/ these are unrelated. First of all, Shoshoni /ɨ/ corresponds to Nahuan /e/. Second of all, /w/ in Shoshoni can c...

Nouns, when used as subject or direct object take an Absolute suffix. This suffix depends on whether the noun is of the three animate classes, or of the three inanimate classes. The former takes the suffix -uù if the root is consonant final, -vuù if it ends in a rounded vowel, and rïȉ if it ends in ...

Verbs are templitic, Following the following order: SUBJECT-OBJECT-(DIRECTIONAL)-ROOT-ASPECT-MOOD-EVIDENTIAL This post will focus on the plain indicative past and present, with visual evidentiality, which has the suffix -(u)raà. The Subject and Object markers distinguish for person, number, and, in ...

Note that since the language is strongly polysythetic, with the main influences being Uto-Aztecan (especially Hopi and Nahuatl), Athabaskan, and Siouan, I am starting with verbal morphology first, even though I normally present nominal morphology in most of my languages. Verbs have two stems: The Pa...

Rïvśɠaàɫ Pòòzbirh /ðʋɨʃ.qâ:ɬ pù:t͡s.piʐ/ is a Poozbirhic language, spoken by the c. 6,500 people of the Rïvśɠaàɫ tribe in the Interior Desert on the continent where Þāpha Di-B'ār'i is spoken. Poozbirhic is unrelated to Þāpha Di-B'ār'i , the latter being a Thaphaian language. Other Poozbirhic languag...

An inventory inspired by Hopi and Navajo mixed. Phonemes in parenthesis indicate I'm not sure if I want them in the language: /p pʰ t̪ t̪ʰ t͡s t͡sʰ (t͡ɬ t͡ɬʰ) ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʰ t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ c cʰ k kʰ kʷ kʷʰ q qʰ (qʷ qʷʰ) ʔ/ /m n̪ ɳ ɲ ŋ/ /s ɬ ʂ ʃ x/ /l (ɭ)/ /ʋ ɹ̪ ɻ j w w̃ (ɰ)/ /i e ø ɨ ɵ o a/ /i: e: y: ɨ: ʉ: u: ...

An inventory inspired by Hopi and Navajo mixed. Phonemes in parenthesis indicate I'm not sure if I want them in the language: /p pʰ t̪ t̪ʰ t͡s t͡sʰ (t͡ɬ t͡ɬʰ) ʈ͡ʂ ʈ͡ʂʰ t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ c cʰ k kʰ kʷ kʷʰ q qʰ (qʷ qʷʰ) ʔ/ /m n̪ ɳ ɲ ŋ/ /s ɬ ʂ ʃ x/ /l (ɭ)/ /ʋ ɹ̪ ɻ j w w̃ (ɰ)/ /i e ø ɨ ɵ o a/ /i: e: y: ɨ: ʉ: u: a...

The copula is T'oiþ, which has suppletive forms for the past (W'aot'þ-) Negative (M't'aoþ) past Negative (M'aot'þ-) interrogitive (B't'aoth) and past interrogitive (B'aot'þ). Þat'oith r'ob'āl "You are a boy" W'aot'þiÞ r'ob'āl "You were a boy" M'aot'þiÞ r'ob'ā "You were not a...

Prepositional proclitics are placed before a noun in its prepositional form to mark what in other languages would be finer case distinctions. Note that the Genitive proclitic, Di- does not not need the noun to be in the prepositional form. Dative-Lative: ʔil- Locative: ʔāl- Ablative: Mīn- Instrument...

Ancient Israeli society recognizing a third social gender was interesting info. I said "Jewish" and not "Israeli" since I'm basing it on texts that date from a span of 100-500 CE, and in that period, many Jews lived in Modern Day Iraq and SE Syria, and were granted semi-autonomo...

Masculine/feminine gender always seemed pedestrian to me, but I’d include them if the culture that spoke the language had more than two (either a third gender or distinct category for trans folks or something) Just to be clear, because this is a common misconception: cross-linguistically, "gen...

Binyan V: The B'ak'oir': The Passive Intensive: Pagoib "To be slain" Non-Past tense: 1P singular: Nipgoib 1P plr incl: Ńapgoib 1P plr excl: Naxpagoib 2P sing: Þapgoib 2p plr: Tāipgoib 3p sing masc: Laopgoib 3p sing fem: Lāpgoibā 3p plr: Yapgoib Past tense: 1P singular: Pagoiban 1P plr incl...

I will now use the root P-G-B "kill" as my model, as it has functions in all Binyans, but I will refer to Binyanim using the Non-past participle of B'-K'-R' , thus the simple Binyan is the B'ak'aor. Past Tense Inflection of P-G-B in the B'ak'aor: 1P singular: Paogban 1P plr incl: Paogbiń 1...

The verbs of the language work with trilitaral roots. The Non-Past Simple Binyan is CCaoC. The Present Tense conjugation of the root B'-K'-R' "To do, to make" 1P singular: N'ib'k'aor' 1P plr incl: Ń'ab'k'aor' 1P plr excl: Naxb'ak'aor' 2P sing: Þab'k'aor' 2p plr: Tāib'k'aor' 3p sing masc: L...

NB: UPDATED PRONOUNS TO BE LESS REGULAR

Pronouns: 1P singular: Nom : Nan Obj-Obl : Nāos Gen: Nāniz 1P plr inclusive: Nom sing: Nadao Obj-Obl : Nāitos Gen: Nadāiź 1P plr exclusive: Nom : Nāń Obj-Obl : Nāś Gen: Nāńaź 2p sing: Nom : Taoþ Obj-Obl : Tos Gen: Tōiz 2P plr: Nom : Tōi Obj-Obl : Taīś Gen: Tāiź 3P masc sing: Nom : Lor Obj-Obl : Los ...

Þāpha Di-B'ār'i is the language used for religious and scholarly writing by the Clerical Orders and Scholarly Schools on the continent of R'āk'in' in the Second Warring States Period (cultural note: Only Clerics and Scholars are allowed to read, and each group has its own alphabet and orthographic p...

A phonemic inventory for a language I'm thinking of using in the world of Fuhe; I had a similiar language (in regards to in-world use; not to phonemes/morphosyntax) before that I scrapped, but I thought to bring the idea back: /p pʰ ɓ t tʰ t' ɗ t͡s t͡sʰ t͡s t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ t͡ʃ' k kʰ k' ʔ/ /m mˤ n nˤ ɲ ɲˤ/...

A phonemic inventory for a language I'm thinking of using in the world of Fuhe; I had a similiar language (in regards to in-world use; not to phonemes/morphosyntax) before that I scrapped, but I thought to bring the idea back: /p pʰ ɓ t tʰ t' ɗ t͡s t͡sʰ t͡s t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ t͡ʃ' k kʰ k' ʔ/ /m mˤ n nˤ ɲ ɲˤ/...

A phonemic inventory for a language I'm thinking of using in the world of Fuhe; I had a similiar language (in regards to in-world use; not to phonemes/morphosyntax) before that I scrapped, but I thought to bring the idea back: /p pʰ ɓ t tʰ t' ɗ t͡s t͡sʰ t͡s' t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ t͡ʃ' k kʰ k' ʔ/ /m mˤ n nˤ ɲ ɲˤ/...