The CBB

Case There are five cases in Twaqan. Nominative (unmarked): The usual - subjects of all kinds, and also the citation form of verb. Possibly it will be used also for nominal predication and as a vocative. I'm not sure about that yet. Accusative: ( -na after a stem ending with a vowel, -a after a con...

It places the agent and subject in different positions? I might have misunderstood you, but this would be quite a realistic change in subject position as it gets promoted/demoted from case X to case Y Possibly... I guess I'm just to tired to think clearly... I was thinking that pronominal subjects ...

Pirka wrote: Next: goggles against snow blindness

I already have these =/
Noktane
Goggles-SG against snow

Next: happpiness of being in love with a childhood crush

But what do you guys think about subject placement? Should subjects join with auxiliary phrases? I was thinking that maybe pronominal subjects should "raise" subject placement, effectively making the word order OVS. Would that be realistic? You could do a sort of unmarked tripartite syste...

I had a shitty time getting used to Serbian tones.
It's quite annoying when there are both contour and pitch tones :-s

Started sketching out a Robotic language. More specifically, a Tech-Being lang. It has no voicing distinction--Tech Beings have no vocal cords--and they cannot make affricates or retroflexes due to having no tongues. What about vowels then? And also, the tongue is required for a lot more sounds tha...

I was (and am still passively) developing a double language. It would be able to transmit two messages the same time. The phonetic segments of both messages are just put in the same stream. I thought of that, too. I guess each DoS (direction of speech) would have a single element, like consonants v...

But what do you guys think about subject placement? Should subjects join with auxiliary phrases? I was thinking that maybe pronominal subjects should "raise" subject placement, effectively making the word order OVS. Would that be realistic? You could do a sort of unmarked tripartite syste...

:eng: (Shakespearean) For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. :eng: (Contemporary) For God loved the world so much that He gave the only son He had had a gift, that gift being the fact that whoever ...

Oh yes. The new trends the kids are articulating today; the new pharyngealisation, analisation! I see. But, no, there are no such sounds on Twaqan. There are neither labials nor anals in it. But they must anal-ise their sounds from time to time. You forgot the anal bilabial trill! How can be anythi...

xingoxa wrote:

Milyamd wrote:

Darkgamma wrote:You forgot the anal bilabial trill!

How can be anything anal and bilabial at once?

A new kind of coarticulation?

Oh yes. The new trends the kids are articulating today; the new pharyngealisation, analisation!

Here is the official romanisation: /n/ - <n> /nʷ/ - <nw> /ɲ/ - <ny> /t/ - <t> /tʷ/ - <tw> /ʧ/ - <c> /k/ - <k> /kʷ/ - <kw> /ʔ/ - <q> /s/ - <s> /ʃ/ - <x> /h/ - <h> /ɾ/ - <r> /j/ - <y> /w/ - <w> /i/ - <i> /e/ - <e> /a/ - <a> You still need explain some allophony but other than that, neat phonology and...

You forgot the anal bilabial trill!

Sankon wrote:There should be a stage were you're unsatisfied with anything you do...

Since you're the first to name it here, let's name it after you!

The Sankon phase!

Now you'll get famous!

Visinoid wrote:It's not that I need them, it's that I want them. :)

That makes you a minority :D
Go ahead then :D A big ablaut system, when done correctly, is extremely beautiful.

The phonology's nice, but you don't need lots of vowels for ablaut.
PIE had two vowels and had extensive ablaut that affected all the descendantlangs to this day.
Two vowels

eldin raigmore wrote:

Darkgamma wrote:He was gutted and paraded through the "Hive". He died two weeks later.

Living two weeks without guts must have been uncomfortable.

Uncomfortable indeed.

I envy you. I'm a scrapper. Being a filler-loyalist has quite some drawbacks. I turn into a scrapper when I lose interest in any non-loyalist lang that's supposed to go into a conworld. I've so far made only two more-less complete conlangs in the two years I've been a conlanger (my loyal-lang lacks...

rickardspaghetti wrote:Your conlangs start to resemble natlangs more in that they actually seem to work. From here on forward you're a proper conlanger. Now go here and decide what kind of conlanger you are.

I already did that. I'm a filler-loyalist

Micamo wrote:

Darkgamma wrote:

Trailsend wrote: Sounds like you have moved past Stage 1, and into Stage 2 of a very common progression in conlanger development! :D

There are conlanging stages :-s ?

Yep. Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance.

Those are the stages of grieving =/