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But I'd also say: bear in mind that Latin hadn't even eliminated its own stress irregularities - there were a whole bunch of words that didn't obey the normal rules and weren't regularised. So expecting immediate regularisation of a whole heap of new irregulars may be unrealistic. I didn't know tha...

How weird would it be for a language with split-ergativity to encode grammatical aspect in the verb, but uses the ergativity split for some other criteria than aspect? Like the split is based on animacy, for instance? Not weird at all. Aspect is just one possible split of a split alignment. I don't...

I checked all 42 prefixes and proclitics of Dlor. I haven't been very coherent while making them. Many unintended homonyms appear. ba PREPOSITION 'as' PREPOSITION 'made of' NUMERAL 'four' ma FIELD PREFIX 'with a vehicle' PREPOSITION 'INSTRUMENT' mi DISTRIBUTIVE PLURAL NUMERAL ''three' mo FIELD PREFI...

In future NE Areyaxi, definiteness is basically a way of saying "I would use anaphora for this but that would be ambiguous." In future Aryayaxi and Orayoxe, the definite article basically means "you know which one I mean (because I mentioned it)," the indefinite article means &q...

Now we get to the argument that Vulgar Latin didn't really lose long vowels but the contrast between short and long vowels. I think this is quite much what Salmoneus said. So, the surface form and underlying form/rule cannot change simultaneously. Either what Greyeditor suggested 1) Surface form ch...

In future NE Areyaxi, definiteness is basically a way of saying "I would use anaphora for this but that would be ambiguous." In future Aryayaxi and Orayoxe, the definite article basically means "you know which one I mean (because I mentioned it)," the indefinite article means &q...

Just to clarify: your idea is to lose vowel length but keep the synchronic latin stress rule leading to many (diachronic) stress shifts, right? Yes Sounds naturalistic but I would frame it slightly different. You lose vowel length, keep stress positions (so in a way 'lose' the synchronic stress rul...

How plausible it would be that a Romlang preserved Latin phonetic stressing after the loss of vowel length?

cantāre has the stress on the penultimate syllable.
=> cantare would have the stress on the antepenultimate syllable

My romlang idea.

p t t͡s k (ks) <p t c/ç c/qu (x)>
f θ s x <f ŧ s ꝁ>
v ð z ɣ <v d z g>
m n ɲ <m n gn>
l r j <l r j>

Having <ꝁ> without <k> is a bit strange. Maybe <c̄>.

What if all location prepositions (they don't have to be such an open class as in English) had a deictic meaning?

Ro bam 'in the house (there)'
Pa bam 'in the house (here)'
But cannot just say 'in the house'.

Maybe it appears in some natlangs?

DV82LECM wrote: ↑16 Feb 2024 06:34 Would written geminated /ʔ/ be <">? It would be intuitive but it strikes my eye oddly.

Also, fan of them both.

Probably yes.
Some people use <q> for /ʔ/ but I don't like it either. Do you have some other options?

p t k kʷ ʔ <p t k qu '> t͡s k͡s <c x> s h <s h> m n ŋ <m n ng> β l ɹ j ɰ w <b l r y g w> i ʉ <i u> o <o> ä <a> CGV(:)U G: β l ɹ j w <b l r y w> U: p̚ t̚ k̚ k̚ʷ ʔ̚ Still one version p t k kʷ ʔ <p t k kw '> t͡s k͡s <c x> s h <s h> m n ŋ <m n ng> l ɹ j w <l r y w> i ʉ <i u> o <o> ä <a> Vowels can be s...

Verb morphology This post will not be the final or complete description. Dnor morphology is extremely simple. The root is CV(C) and all but one prefixes are CV-. The Middle voice prefix is just s-. Compounding does not happen and all verbs have thus just one root. The verb template is -4/-3 Middle ...

I decide that verb pairs like

find - look for
see - look/watch
hear - listen

will be expressed with Antipassive.

Tlee nábek ka.
'I'm looking for you.'

Tlee bék ka.
'I found you.'

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I also decided that 'acorn' will be lâm e krom 'egg of tree'.

I started translating Cat and Fish story into Dlor. I got stuck with 'to wake up'. Dlor does not have a cessative form so it cannot just be 'stop sleeping'. Maybe it will be 'to get active' or 'to eye-open' or something. So in the end, i didn't accomplish very much conlanging today. Can't you just ...

I started translating Cat and Fish story into Dlor.
I got stuck with 'to wake up'. Dlor does not have a cessative form so it cannot just be 'stop sleeping'.

Maybe it will be 'to get active' or 'to eye-open' or something.

So in the end, i didn't accomplish very much conlanging today.

Thank you!
I think what @VaptuantaDoi said was quite much what I was looking for.
I have check the paper Visions1 linked. Niger-Kongo languages - especially outside Bantu - are very interesting.

Ba is a preposition meaning (more or less) 'as'.

[bä'mɔn]
ba mon
'as a man'

It can also be prefixed to the noun forming a verb 'to be an N'.

['bä.mɔn]
bamon
'to be a man'

In what kind of vowel inventories does /ʉ/ (close central rounded vowel) appear? Wikipedia has a very short list. I'm not sure what sort of answer you're looking for. What does "what kind of" mean? What are the options? In terms of individual languages, the obvious example is (many/most d...

In what kind of vowel inventories does /ʉ/ (close central rounded vowel) appear?
Wikipedia has a very short list.