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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.

The venitive prefix jo- could actually be added to nouns expressing 'there is'.

Jomas 'There is a house.' ~ 'There are houses.'

The problem is just how to add adjectives to the verby phrase. Does anybody know how polysynthetic languages do that?

Dlor has a definite article s-. It is used of object that are mentioned or hinted to earlier in the discourse or that are language-externally known. It is not used of generic entities. I don't know how words like Sun behave. I'm planing that associated motion markers also introduce new entities into...

Applicatives Applicatives are formed by adding the preposition of the NP that is to be promoted before the verb. Néeb tlee lu s-lûrud. live SG1 in DEF-town 'I live in the town.' Lú-neeb s-lûrud na tlee. APPL-live DEF-town ERG SG1 Use Applicatives are hardly ever used in 'normal' sentences. Their mai...

On the directional prefixes 1) When the verb is a motion verb, say, 'to run', they mean 'to arrive running' and 'to leave running'. They thus make the verb telic while the original verb is atelic 'to be running'. 2) When the verb is not a motion verb, say, to 'to sing', they mean 'arrive and then si...

A Finnic lang where inessive and illative merge as well as adessive and allative. maja 'house' Iness maja-s <= maja-ssa Illat maja-s <= maja-sse (at least Estonian has this) Elat maja-st <= maja-sta Adess maja-l <= maja-lla Allat maja-l <= maja-lle(k) Abl maja-lt <= maja-lta If goal and location cas...

I could make a new version of this project https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7572 making it West-Romance rather than South-Romance. It has two cases, Nominative and Obloque (Everythig-else-case). SG.NOM /amixos/ SG.OBL /amixo/ PL /amixi/ Nominative has the -s only if the word is animate. I have s...

There was a conlang genarator that was able to generate relatively nice sketches.
What was its adress?

The fun thing in Dlor are denominal verbs where the derivational affix is one of the normal deverbal affixes. Prepositions could also do (1) lwi s-mas inside DEF-house 'inside the house' (2) lwimas 'to be inside (the) house' Fonologically, the only difference is that in (1) the stress lies on the se...

I wrote two pages to my Dlor grammar. As usual, I added things to many places there, copula constructions, habeo constructions, diphthongs, proclitics or nouns ...

This paragraph from Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkup_people has many interesting passive-like constructions. During the Soviet period, the Selkups were forced to adopt a settled lifestyle and their traditional culture witnessed a severe decline. The Selkups have been facing cultural ...