The CBB

Grammatical Relations The determining of who is doing what to who is achieved by word order. Clauses are either intransitive or monotransitive. Intransitive clauses have the subject precede the predicate. hai⁵ de³ ǁqʼaa⁵³ father ASP sing The father is singing Transitive clauses have the agent preced...

I knew it'd be a hurdle, but people really oughtta play with a few dozen clicks every now and then.

It's probably prudent to cover parts of speech. They include nominals, verbals, mimetics, conjunctions, interjections. Adjectives and adpositions are lumped into verbals. I'm having a hard time finding any adverbs which aren't just verbal adjuncts. Nominal: ʘ͡qʼi² "dust" Verbal: ʔae² "...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025 15:07 *Being helpful*

Thank you for informing me I had a large phonological inventory. I was totes unaware. I shall dial back the fun factor.

But seriously. Being an advanced conlanger is knowing you can break the rules. Rules being generous because I only have more tones than Khoisan.

The syllable:

All syllables start with a lone consonant.
All syllables have a single vowel.
No syllable ends in consonant.

Syllabic nasals exist. After a vowel within the same word, an optional homologous voiced stop is inserted.

So CV or N.

Supersegmentals definitely occurs. Vowel length is contrastive and is binary. Examples of contrast: a: xa˥ "follow" xaː˥ "cough" e: g͡kʰe˨ "letter" g͡kʰeː˨ "before" i: si˥ "say" siː˥ "see" o: ǂo˦ "walking stick" ǂoː˦ "hour&qu...

Vowels are such much simpler. Monophthongs I u e o a Diphthongs ai au ae ao For clarity the diphthongs ai and ae don't count as front vowels for consonant allophony purposes. /a/ preceded by a palatal consonant within the same syllable becomes [æ] Vowels preceded by a nasal consonant within the same...

So an old conlang of mine that's lingered since 2017, there's actually a fair chunk to copy-paste to here. The project isn't an exercise in phonological minimalism. Pulmonic m n ɲ ŋ p t c k q ʔ pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ qʰ pʼ tʼ cʼ kʼ qʼ b d ɟ g ɢ b͡pʰ d͡tʰ ɟ͡cʰ g͡kʰ ɢ͡qʰ b͡pʼ d͡tʼ ɟ͡cʼ g͡kʼ ɢ͡qʼ f s ç x χ h Labi...

I really wouldn't think twice about it since "auxiliary" meanings are covered by everything from nouns to adverbs.

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑26 Feb 2025 15:48 I need to look more into tone. Every time I try to do it I’m not sure I’m doing it right.

Yes you should. But not to worry; it's hard to do tone wrong. Just give every word a tone or every syllable a tone and it's that easy to start. Yet, the more you dive the more rewarding it is!

Who's using tone? When do you incorporate it vs ignoring it? Number of tones? Register tones? Contour tones? Both? Tone sandhi or nah? Preferred romanization? ‐-------------------------------------------------- I love tone. It's fantastic for minimal pairs. Any project not majorly polysllabic gets i...

Are there not such things as extra-high vowels that aren't just syllabic fricatives? I vaguely recall something something Bantu, but I'm finding nothing that describes them.

Sdeuk is 虫 with a hat. I can get behind this.

m n ŋ ŋ͡m ɴ ɴ͡m p t k k͡p q q͡p ʔ b d g g͡b ɢ ɢ͡b ɓ̥ ɗ̥ ɠ̥̊ ɠ̥̊͡ɓ̥ ʛ̥ ʛ̥͡ɓ̥ ɓ ɗ ɠ ɠ͡ɓ ʛ ʛ͡ɓ t͡s t͡ɕ t͡ʃ d͡z d͡ʑ d͡ʒ s ɕ ʃ h z ʑ ʒ r j w Vowels Oral Nasal Monophthongs Monophthongs i ɨ u ĩ ɨ̃ ũ e o ẽ õ a ã Oral Nasal Diphthongs Diphthongs ie ɨa uo ĩẽ ɨ̃ã ũõ ae aɨ ao ãẽ ãɨ̃ ãõ Very Yeli-Dnye-inspired...

Probably. I would just describe it as conditioned epenthesis.

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ṛa-n̰aṟa n. black vulture (coragyps altratus)

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ṛa-taŋkita n. reddish-brown stag beetle (lucanus capreolus)

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ṛa-wuḻampu n. carolina mantis (stagomantis carolina)

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ṛa-taṛaya n. eastern chipmunk (tamias striatus)