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FWIW I'll note that Tokelauan ō is two syllables, not really a short word. Anyways, the shortest word in Hlaitype is m 'and', a clitic with the pronunciation /m/ [ə̆m~m], but u3 /u˧˩/ (a grammatical particle equivalent to 'ing' for most verbs) is close behind (of note, most words in Hlaitype are mo...

I have āg- "send" and āb- "lure, lead" and kāˀ- "beget, appoint"

- I just generated a random language and got one pharyngeal consonant, a palatal implosive but no palatal stops, and a glottal stop (and a pharyngeal fricative) but no /h/. I think this stands alone and doesn't need an explanation for why it's a problem. Not natural at all. The generator does not s...

I'm stuck in a predicament. I originally only had masculine and feminine, but I came up with a third gender, the inanimate/neuter. I don't entirely know how this new noun class could come into existence from a noun class binary, so it creates problems with how nouns in this gender concord with prono...

non-syllabic /u/ or /w/ become /p/ or /k/ when found in the coda of a syllable. non-syllabic /i/ or /j/ become /k/ (if u>p) or /c/ (if u>k)

ajta > /akta/ or /acta/
sausu > /sapsu/ or /saksu/

Would it be naturalistic for monosyllabic words ending in a vowel to take on longer forms of case endings than other types of words?

e.g. kú-mma (3fs-NOM) but nā́tu-m (night-NOM) and lúmbu-m (human-NOM)
Stress marked by acute accent.

Oh, you could have used <ḫ> for /x/ and <ś> for /ɬ/ and <ṙ> for /ɾ/

Maybe I am wrong, but does your inventory really have two phonemic click POAs? Couldn't you say you only have phonemic dental clicks? well apparently it's physiologically impossible to have palatal secondary articulation on clicks, so they'd phonetically absolutely have to be full palatal clicks. I...

I look on wiki about click consonants and see that there are no languages with two types of click POAs. They either only have 1 or they have 3 or more. Are there any languages that have two click POAs?

I don't know if my inventory of clicks is naturalistic or attested:
/ᵑǀ ᵑǀʲ~ᵑǂ /
/ǀ ᶢǀ ǀʲ~ǂ ᶢǀʲ~ᶢǂ

What would be the desirable forms? What if those forms are created but then analogy / some sporadic shortening of plurals changes them more? Well, this: https://i.imgur.com/UAqOXaO.png It isn't too uncommon for liquids to persist in conditions that would otherwise elide them, but commonly-used word...

I suppose you could have a sort of "stressed"/"emphatic"/long form of the singular pronouns that forms through analogy with the plural forms, so you keep the short forms alongside the long, and then that gives you the short forms as a sort of handy thing for forming clitics or v...

So I have a synchronic/diachronic sound change where consonants like /ʔ w j h/ (category L) elide in various ways. Namely: L > 0 /V(:)_V(:) L > : / V(:)_C L: > :L / V(:)_V(:) V[+stress] > V:[+stress] (sometimes) There's also vowel coalescence/contraction as a result of these elisions. However this w...

I made a funny (image of moderate size):

Different verbs in languages use different syntax constructions. I think some syntax book I read in the beginning of my studies said that in secundative construction verb 'to give' works like verb 'to provide'. "We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces." Being a non-na...

How can I better describe how the accusative and instrumental case work in my language with respect to secundative languages , at the level of someone who is not familiar with linguistics? So far I have it as this: The accusative (ACC) case indicates the primary object of a verb, which may be the re...

They are long vowels, but ones as a result of contraction/coalescence. Governed state is the default, unpossessed state. If you don't know already and it's useful to you, in Semitic linguistics the default state is called the "absolute state" generally... I see the "governed state&qu...

having a natural class called "postvelars" that makes a binary distinction between uvular consonants, which cause vowel retraction, and pharyngeals, which cause vowel advancement.

Does this look like a naturalistic case system? Yes, of course, no reason to say no. How are î and û pronounced? Is governed state everything that is not construct state? They are long vowels, but ones as a result of contraction/coalescence. Governed state is the default, unpossessed state.

Does this look like a naturalistic case system?

<ﻉ> <ʿ> <c>