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I decided on the names of two of the inanimate genders of my conlang with 6 genders, Shonkasikas. What I was calling "Inanimate Masculine" (or "Inanimate O-stems") I am calling "Celestial" (for containing some astronomical vocabulary) and what was called "Inanimate...

My current conlang, Shonkasika, has 6 noun genders, which are classified by both form (the stem vowel) and semantics (whether the noun is seen as animate or not). Gender | Stem vowels | Animate? Common | -e, -i, -u | yes Masculine | -o | yes Feminine | -a | yes Neuter | -e, -i, -u | no Celestial | -...

Lots of neat ideas! A few options here: VII) What kinds of inanimate things form the majority of these two declensions? Or, what do you have in mind as the majority for each? Maybe use a greco-latinate word for each. E.G.: many of the masc.-inan. nouns in -O refer to weather. Call it the Meteorologi...

My current conlang, Shonkasika, now has 6 genders/noun classes that originates from an original gender system of neuter/masculine/feminine that added an animacy distinction. My question is what to call the noun classes: Class ~ Possible Name ~ Semantics I ~ "Common" ~ animate epicene gende...

Is this at all naturalistic or completely out of left field? Many thanks! The only thing I question is the INAN.MASC and INAN.FEM genders. I think it'd be more naturalistic (or at least cleaner as a description) to say that the language actually has 6 genders rather than two intersecting systems: T...

My current conlang has three genders (neuter, masculine, feminine), two numbers (singular, plural) and nine cases. The language distinguishes animacy inconsistently, in some case forms and in some determiners and pronouns. The language is predominately SOV but word order is fairly free. I believe I ...

I working on a new and yet-unnamed conlang. I have several ideas in mind with respect to my previous project, Rayanese. I want a simpler vowel system( just /a e i o u/ plus diphthongs and triphthongs), yet more variation and irregularities in my nouns, adjectives and verbs. So far, I have 7 noun dec...

I added distinctions of animacy to my 3rd person pronouns as well as to my articles and determiners and interrogative and relative pronouns. This is in addition to have gender (masculine, feminine or neuter). In general, Rayanese nouns are ‘animate’ if they refer to a sentient being or an animal, or...

I have worked on Rayanese's vowel inventory, making it more symmetrical by removing the front rounded vowels /2, y/ and replacing them with /O, U/. It's vowels are now /a e i o u { E I O U/. I worked extensively on Rayanese's noun (and adjective) morphology, masking some of the regularity of plural ...

I think "boring" is largely a matter of opinion. Yes, I would like to see more development here, maybe a little less regularity to spice things up, but it makes sense so far and doesn't have a lot of the newbie mistakes that even my newer conlangs somehow manage to retain. I'd like to see...

Don't make everything absurdly regular if you can't think of a more interesting way to do things. If everything comes out looking the same and boring, try doing things differently (for instance, you could apply an archiphonemic plural marker to those case suffixes, and each one would either come ou...

Thanks for the comments! I realize a lot of the structure for my language is very 'European' and could be seen as unimaginative, but that is what I was going for. I added more of the lexicon to the website and added a little bit on syntax and a few short examples of the language on the syntax page. ...

Hello all. I have been creating constructed languages for quite some time but this is the first time I've publicly shared one. This one is called "Rayanese". It's strongly influenced by Indo-European languages. I have put up a sketch of the phonology, grammar and part of its lexicon at thi...