S₁ŋ̩ʲːd-o Lat-u: The Singing Tongue
Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:37
Oh jeez, where do I start. This is the first thread I've made in 3 years on the CBB (yes, it's been *3* years, I have not made a thread since 2017).
In April last year (or at least, that's as far back as my documentation goes), I began to work on a new conworld, one that would be focused on maintaining more realism, in contrast to Waxworld, which operates on its own sorts of level. I'm trying to flesh out ~10 protolangs that came to dominate the land, which is, if anything, knowing my (lack of) productivity, a bit too much.
Anyways, this thread will be devoted to one of those proto-languages, and all of its descendants. This language family would come to predominate most of the planet, especially over the last millennium, during which the discovery of an previously uninhabited continent by a few small groups led to a massive increase in its influence. It is noticeably like Proto-Indo-European, but naturally will have its own quirks. Here's a little, minimally-edited copypaste of what I have down on the languages, over at the sQwedgepad
First protolang, of the most Proto-Indo-European-like language family
/p t k bˀ dˀ gˀ b d g/
/s₁ s₂ s₃ h₁ h₂/ also notated as F₁ F₂ F₃ F₄ F₅ due to the uncertain realizations of most of the fricatives, a good estimate is [s ʃ sʷ x h]
/m n ŋʲ m̥ n̥ ŋ̥ʲ r r̥ l l̥/
/j w/
/a e o i u/
/eː oː iː uː/
/m̩ n̩ ŋ̩ʲ r̩ l̩/
/m̩ː n̩ː ŋ̩ʲː r̩ː l̩ː/
example words:
*dˀoːŋʲ-o 'to bind'
*m̥urk-i 'worm'
*(h₁)s₃em- 'tooth, bone, jaw'
Words are generally formed of three parts: a root, a theme vowel, and a suffix. Occasionally, often in nouns, the theme vowel is absent.
The word m̥r̩kidˀyem "near a couple worms" can be used to show this. It is composed of a root m̥urk-, a theme vowel -i- and the stem -Vdˀyem, which is the paucal locative. The theme can be considered equivalent to the final vowel of the stem in some analyses. In some forms, denoted with a -V, the theme remains present in the word, but in other forms, theme vowels may instead be lost, or replaced with another vowel, as required by the paradigm.
I think that's enough for today
In April last year (or at least, that's as far back as my documentation goes), I began to work on a new conworld, one that would be focused on maintaining more realism, in contrast to Waxworld, which operates on its own sorts of level. I'm trying to flesh out ~10 protolangs that came to dominate the land, which is, if anything, knowing my (lack of) productivity, a bit too much.
Anyways, this thread will be devoted to one of those proto-languages, and all of its descendants. This language family would come to predominate most of the planet, especially over the last millennium, during which the discovery of an previously uninhabited continent by a few small groups led to a massive increase in its influence. It is noticeably like Proto-Indo-European, but naturally will have its own quirks. Here's a little, minimally-edited copypaste of what I have down on the languages, over at the sQwedgepad
First protolang, of the most Proto-Indo-European-like language family
/p t k bˀ dˀ gˀ b d g/
/s₁ s₂ s₃ h₁ h₂/ also notated as F₁ F₂ F₃ F₄ F₅ due to the uncertain realizations of most of the fricatives, a good estimate is [s ʃ sʷ x h]
/m n ŋʲ m̥ n̥ ŋ̥ʲ r r̥ l l̥/
/j w/
/a e o i u/
/eː oː iː uː/
/m̩ n̩ ŋ̩ʲ r̩ l̩/
/m̩ː n̩ː ŋ̩ʲː r̩ː l̩ː/
example words:
*dˀoːŋʲ-o 'to bind'
*m̥urk-i 'worm'
*(h₁)s₃em- 'tooth, bone, jaw'
Words are generally formed of three parts: a root, a theme vowel, and a suffix. Occasionally, often in nouns, the theme vowel is absent.
The word m̥r̩kidˀyem "near a couple worms" can be used to show this. It is composed of a root m̥urk-, a theme vowel -i- and the stem -Vdˀyem, which is the paucal locative. The theme can be considered equivalent to the final vowel of the stem in some analyses. In some forms, denoted with a -V, the theme remains present in the word, but in other forms, theme vowels may instead be lost, or replaced with another vowel, as required by the paradigm.
I think that's enough for today