The CBB

Any distinction could be coded with tones. I though syncretism could exist of the SIM form and ANT or POST forms in either the counterfactual or the non-factual forms. That's a good point. I will probably somehow use it. Maybe the distinction expressed by tones could actually be the one between com...

An IE lang with six cases Athematic declension ien 'woman' - ienz 'women' NOM ien - ienz ACC ien -ienz DAT ieni - ienvo ESS iens - ienzs [iens] GEN iene - ienu ABL iene - ienvo The essive is one of my favorite cases, which appears in many of my langs. It is the case of the copula complement. It deri...

I'm still repeating the phoneme inventory I've used many times. Phonotactics has something new. p t t͡s k s x z ɣ ɾ m n ŋ ʋ j l y i u yø ie uo ø e o ä The most complex syllable is: C 1 C 2 VCC 4 C 1 : {p t t͡s k s x z ʋ[v]} C 2 : {m n ŋ l ɾ} C 4 : {s z} A voiceless consonant preceding /z/ is voiced....

Creyeditor wrote: ↑23 May 2024 09:59 I would say Counterfactual anterior or posterior. You could also introduce syncretism into the system btw.

Which ones would be synchretic?

I also think that one distinction could be coded with tones. Which one it could be?

The current system of Dlor conjunctions contains 3x3 conmplementizers and 3x3 adverbializers. Which of them, you think, are the least used and could thus be compositional instead of single morphemes? Complementizer Factual non-factual counterfactual Anterior x x x Simultaneous x x x Posterior x x x ...

On stressing Xiwook is a prototypical stress language (not a tone language). Defined: - The stress bearing unit is syllable (not mora or vowel). - Every phonetic word has one and only one stress. Xiwook is a fixed-stress language. - If the word has at least two syllables, the stress falls on the sec...

I like this. For some reason it's giving Tibetan vibes. I really like the compounding, too. What happens to the tone of the first vowel in a compound? I'm not sure if I'm going to keep tone in the end. It was initially based on Latvian and Lithuanian, but now that the language generally has more As...

A skech of a language I call Tłvon . More or less this phonology: pʰ tʰ kʰ p t k b d g t͡s t͡ɬ t͡ʂ ʈ͡ɬ d͡z d͡ɮ d͡ʐ ɖ͡ɮ s ɬ ɕ ʂ ɬ z ʑ ʐ mʰ nʰ m n ŋ l r ɭ ɽ s ʃ x z ʒ ʋ j i ɨ u e ə o ä Most words are monosyllabic. The syllable structure is: C(G)V(C), where G is a glide (ʋ j). When the coda is an obstr...

Maybe I could solve the problem of relative clauses with absolute constructions. Everything can be a relative clause.

Eivuhekoi wrote: ↑16 May 2024 12:06

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*soutadak     soutaa   sõudma    sottatak
*vottadak     ottaa    võtma     hottadak

Why does sottatak have a geminated t?
Hottadak has a d which you excluded.

I think I'll abandon the Algonquian four-way transitivity/gender marking. Animate definite object marker on verbs could be like the definiteness marker on nouns. -' after a vowel -' before a final resonant -a after an obstruent sy' 'does it/him/her/them' sy'n 'to do it/him/her/them' -n could be the ...

The morpheme -ko, I termed Volitional, derives from a word that means (more or less) 'to want'. (I have to think how it affects person paradigms. Are the volitional paradigms more adjective-like?) When it combines with Realis form, it expresses votionality. syko 'willingly does'. When it combines w...

Did I already mention my idea of a Finnic language with this vowel inventory. i ɨ u e o ä Length is contrastive. Starting from Finnish-ish y i u ø e o æ ɑ Short y, ø -> ɨ Long ø: -> ɨ: Long y: -> yi (as in Estonian), put interpreted as /ui/ Long ɑ: in non-initial syllables -> ɨ Genitive -n lengthen...

First very tentative attempt for verb morphology The obligatory (inflectional) suffixes are 1) politeness 2) mood 3) volitionality 4) person They can still change. New members can also still join the paradigms. Now the three first ones, which I'm going to handle now, are bimary. 1) politeness Polite...

Ælfwine wrote: ↑11 May 2024 16:04 Where in the Finn-lands is it spoken, though?

What is spoken?

i i: ɨ ɨ: u u:
e e: o o:
æ: ä ɒ:

I'm (re)making Dlor conjunctions.
Is there a theory/list of some kind of semantic primes of possible conjunctions?

How about crossing marked nominative alignment with split ergativity? Let's say the split is based on animacy. Animate subjects and inanimate objects of transitive verbs would be marked with the direct (?) case. Wece-sung tuba-sung diku. woman-DIR stone-DIR admire. The woman admires the stone. Both...

*b *d *g *p *t *k *s *h *w *j *m *n *k is palatised before front vowels *b *d *g do not contrast with their voiceless counterparts initially and sometimes alternate with them in inflection. They are reflexed as nasals or approximants in all known descendants. *i *u *e *o *a Any vowel can be long ma...

Damn how cruel the critique has been. Why can't people just be quiet if they think someone's project is nonsense.