The CBB

Just wanted to say that I am absolutely keeping an eye on this language - love some Navajo inspiration and interesting aspectual shenanigans! Thanks! It's really encouraging to see that so many people like this! A bit of a short post today, I've been really busy with classes (well technically "...

Noun Incorporation Noun incorporation is very productive and has many uses in Ahapa. It's most common use is for discourse purposes, a noun that is not incorporated is usually perceived as being focused, depending on the context of the sentence. It's common for an noun to be unincorporated when it ...

I love the look and feel for this conlang and hope to see more of it [:)] . Particularly a fan of /l/ being a rare phoneme replaced by /d/. Do you have any sample words with this phoneme? Are there any phonological changes that specifically made it rare? So far I have 5 words with /l/: -kal- "...

Good conlangs are never commented, so it looks nice! I don't quite understand Navajo aspect system, but it surely is good material for conlangs. Is, say, perfective formation always regular or are there irregularities? There are a handful of irregular verbs I've come up with so far, but I'm still c...

Verb Basics Verbs are the main workhouse of Ahapa, this post will focus on the verb template, root structure, and aspect suppletion. Verbs are very complex morphologically, conjugating for the person of the subject and the object of the verb, as well as for aspect, mood, evidentiality, and more. Te...

Must give this a proper read soon. I like everything I see. The voicing contrast in stops is interesting and unexpected. Was Caddo an inspiration there? The voiced stops were mostly just because I like the aesthetic of them, though I'm glad you like them! What does Area mean in your first chart? Th...

The reduplication/compound/clitics stuff looks very realistic. Thanks, my idea is that it was fully productive at an earlier date so the newer morphology doesn't abide by it. Pronouns & Person Marking Independent pronouns in Ahapa are pretty rare, mostly due to its polypersonal agreement. There...

I like the vowel dissimilation process. Does it also apply inside roots? So there are no roots that violate the vowel dissimilation rule, but there are some places where it does not apply. One is when forming diminutives, which are formed by full reduplication. kí "older sister" -> kíkí (...

Excellent phonology here. I can definitely see the Caddoan influence with the lack of /o/, and the tone system is very reminiscent of several Native American languages out west, which I really like. The sound of it (as best as I can do without butchering tones) is really distinctive and fun. Not to...

I'm making this thread largely to get myself to work on this language more. Comments, questions, suggestions, and criticisms are much appreciated! :mrgreen: Ahápaké, (which I will refer to as Ahapa henceforth) is a language spoken by a small community (population of around 15,000) in a temperate, co...

18. C) No Fricatives
11. A) None

8. A) No Laterals
9. A) Velar nasal, also initially
19. A) None
6. A) None

I hope I can join despite not answering the first question.

1&2 C
4 A
7 B

A Finnish inspired inventory that I immediately fell in love with. A tentative name right now is something like "Kááhtin" if I decide to develop it further. /m n/ <m n> /p t k ʔ/ <p t k ‘> /s h/ <s h> /ʋ ð̞ ɣ̞~ɰ/ <v d g> /a e i o u/ <a e i o u> /ː/ <VV> Syllable structure is limited, and t...

Núta Núta is my latest pet sketch. The consonant inventory is pretty much exactly Mohawk/Oneida - and Proto-Northern-Iroquoian - if ts kw are considered clusters. The vowels are fewer in number though, and there are no nasal vowels. /n/ n /t k ʔ/ t k ‘ /s h/ s h /r/ r /j w/ y w /a e i u/ a e ı u Vo...

Two phonologies I've been sitting on for a while, one I'm thinking of making a neighbour of the Lyran family. /p t k/ /tθ' t' ts' tɬ' k' q' ʔ/ /θ s ɬ ʁ h/ /m n l r j w/ /m' n' l' r' j' w'/ /e a ə əj~i əj'~iʔ əw~u əw'~uʔ/ Syllable structure is also very Salishan, with sequences of glottal stop and ob...

I was originally going to do a post on some more verb stuff, but I was reading my posts so far and I realized I never fully explained the word class distinction and the subtleties of verb transitivity, so I’m going to do that in this post. This post will be somewhat random and unorganized, but I jus...

In a follow-up to my previous phonology. /t̪~θ (t)s (t)ɬ (t)ʃ k~x/ /t̪’ t͡s’ t͡ɬ’ t͡ʃ’ k’ ʔ/ /n r j/ /i a o/ in mid, high or low tone. Syllable structure is CV(C), where any consonant may appear in the onset or coda, except that /j/ may not appear after /i/. The plain plosives/affricates are realis...

Nominal Modifiers: Demonstratives, Adjectives, and and Nominal Syntax This post is about all nominal modifiers, which there are fewer of, and about the syntax of nominal clauses and relative clauses. Nominal Syntax: Being a VSO highly right branching language, nominal clauses are highly head-initia...

Okay, so I have a post on nominal modifiers coming up, but it's been slow going since I lost some of the work I've been working on, but I've done some work on the ancestors of Lyran. I've finally figured out the phoneme inventory for Proto-Lyran, something I've been working on for a couple months, b...