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I've made minor changes to Pazmat. Namely, that the 2nd conjugation 2S is now -ō . I like it better than the old -ot (I do like final /t/, but it doesn't really fit here), and it fits with the other singular markers being single long vowels: 1S -ī and 3S -ū . This will probably not be the only chang...

I have most definitely noticed this in many Japanese songs. For instance this one, at 0:23 where they sing kanra kanra to warai yamanu haratsudzumi , the beginning is very obviously [ka.ɴ.ɾa ka.ɴ.ɾa]. I have always found it very odd that this moraic nasal is uvular in Japanese, though. The phoneme w...

Pazmat:

gṛbmētya soybufe?
new-speak.INDEF-ACC learn-IMPERF-2S

mata'cya soybufe?
language=what-ACC learn-IMPERF-2S

In the second sentence you can see Pazmat's unusual characteristic of using "what" as a sort of pseudo-case-suffix.

Is it plausible to treat "what" as an adjective modifying a noun? I've just come to realize that it sometimes can be viewed as one in English. For instance, in "what car are you driving", "what" is for all intents and purposes an adjective. I'm thus thinking of making P...

I am currently working on a story that uses some Sanskrit for flavor (mainly as a language for one character's magical incantations). From this, I've gotten an urge to use compounds more often in Pazmat. It sounds fun, does something I don't usually see in other conlangs, and would strengthen its Sa...

Japan's lack of well-spoken and attested relatives really hurts here. Japanese does have relatives, some with fairly reasonable documentation: see Ryukyuan Languages . Note that I said "lack of well-spoken and attested relatives". The Ryuyukan languages are all nearly dead and we have alm...

Is it plausible for a language to mark person only in realis verbs but leave it realis verbs unmarked for person? I am planning on doing this for Sunbyaku.

What I want to know was how the verbs became split into two classes in the first place. My experience in linguistics has taught me that languages never ever split things arbitrarily. I used to have an old gamer from the 20's on Old Japanese, but I lost the files. Well, yodan are roots that end in c...

What I want to know was how the verbs became split into two classes in the first place. My experience in linguistics has taught me that languages never ever split things arbitrarily. I used to have an old gamer from the 20's on Old Japanese, but I lost the files. This is one of Pazmat's biggest flaw...

It's hard. Very hard. I wouldn't recommend it for a beginner, especially since many conlangers, even venerable ones, have really skewed/incorrect views on how Semitic tri-literal roots actually work. However, one thing I do recommend is having a proto-language which is not non-concatenative and deri...

I suppose it will work. Before I got the sense that you were mixing the subject and the topic, but perhaps I misread or misremembered. I don't see a real problem having voicing dissimilation. Seems like an interesting idea. It isn't full voicing dissimilation; it only applies to voiceless consonant...

I'm not sure why I couldn't have both--it would just have different uses than the Japanese topic. A Sunbyaku topic would thus usually be translated as a literal "as for X/speaking of X/concerning X": cat=TOP very.much like-1S Speaking of cats, I like them very much As opposed to cat=DIREC ...

I've been getting heavily involved with anime, manga, light novels, and otaku culture recently. It's making me want to reboot Sunbyaku much as I did Pazmat. This hypothetical reboot will not be as extreme as Pazmat's was, but quite a few things will change nonetheless--both to make it more Japanese,...

Head-final compounds just make more sense to me, regardless of the actual branching of the language itself. I know this is only because I speak a language with head-final compounds, but head-initial compounds just break my brain. I can handle things like cases, free word orer, noun-adjective, etc. b...

I have a plan for a Pazmat script in place. The history of it was that the Paz borrowed a script from a small culture they had conquered (this culture being one of the few which had independently discovered writing). This script was a Brahmic-style abugida with an inherent vowel of /a/. The Paz enco...

If I ever make it, my planned script for Pazmat is a Devanagari-esque quasi-abugida (there are glyphs for each consonant, and diacritics for the vowels, but the consonant glyphs do not have "inherent" vowels like an abugida) where each consonant has a reduced form to be used in clusters. T...

Yup!

That's supposed to be "Maryusic", a Latinized term that ultimately means "sea-dwellers".

William Annis' "A conlanger's Thesaurus" gives get, obtain as a verb that is likely to have a semantic connection to the past tense and sit and stand have a connection to the continious aspect in some languages according to him. So, I guess in principle locational verbs are a naturalistic...

I have decided to take some time off Kirronga and Maryusic and return to Pazmat. My baby has been left alone for so long and it breaks my heart a little. I have several things I left alone even though they were nearly done: conditional clauses (including the conditional mood itself), and a new poten...

:con: Maryusic Maryusic is a PIE descendant, so it handles this pretty much exactly as one would expect. No funny stuff here. hąras atti man-NOM.SG eat-3S vanē dośatra woman-NOM.SG see-3S.MEDIOPASSIVE hąras yamų atti man-NOM.SG food-ACC.SG eat-3S vanē hąritas dośatra woman-NOM.SG man-ABL.Sg see-3S.M...