Now with a functional orthography!
This is so I stop clogging up the What Did You Accomplish Today thread. Things are likely to change drastically as time goes on in a general forwards direction; I would greatly appreciate feedback, as I'm a little out of practice in conlanging (Undercommon aside). This is half a place to introduce the existing grammar, half a place to provide updates of new additions/changes/whatever-I-happen-to-be-working-on-that-day, so do forgive me if I end up rambling on about second-order causatives and particle physics terminology before getting around to describing how nouns work.
A brief note on HyPry version 3, and why it's version 3:
Spoiler:
Phoneme Inventory:
p pʰ pˣ t tʰ tˣ k kʰ kˣ k͡p k͡pʰ k͡pˣ ʔ <b p ph d t th g k kh gp kp kph h>
tʷ tʷʰ tʷˣ kʷ kʷʰ kʷˣ <dw tw thw gw kw khw>
m n nʷ ŋ ŋʷ ŋ͡m <m n nw ng ngw nm>
p͡ɸ t͡s t͡sʷ t͡ɬ t͡ɬʷ <v z zw tl tlw>
ʍ r̥ r̥ʷ l̥ l̥ʷ j̊ j̊ʷ <w r rw l lw y yw>
i u e ø ɜ o æ ɑ <i u ë ö e o ä a>
The alveolars <d t th dw tw thw> are written <s s sh sw sw shw> when lenited, as described below.
The labialized alveolar affricates /t͡sʷ t͡ɬʷ/ are realized as [t͡ʃʷ, t͡ɭ̝̊ʷ].
The full range of phoneme distinctions is found only word-initially and in most medial CC clusters. Word-finally and intervocalically, oral stops lenite to fricatives, while approximants (and /r̥/) voice. Lenition also occurs to oral stops in a medial CN cluster, and those that are the second C of an initial CC cluster. Bilabial and alveolar stops with a velar release become velarized; this can lead to alveolar fricatives with two secondary articulations (/tʷˣ/ > [sʷˠ]). Lenited aspirated and tenuis stops merge (/k, kʰ/ > [x]). Lenited labio-velar and labialized velar stops merge (/k͡p, kʷ/ > [xʷ]). Lenited /tʷ/ is realized as [ʃʷ].
Syllable Structure:
(C)(F/L/G)V(L/G/S*)(F/N/A)
--- G = glide, L = liquid, A = affricate
--- LL/GG onsets are prohibited.
--- *Oral stops are permitted as the first consonant in a CC coda iff the second is a fricative.
Additional Phonotactic Things:
/j̊ j̊ʷ/ > /#_C
ex. /j̊-p͡ɸi/ > [ib͡βi] ivi vacation
/ʔP/ > [P']
ex. /ʔ-k͡pøl/ > [k͡p'øl] gbhöl table
/C[-LAB]ʍ / > [Cʷ]
ex. /kʰ-ʍɜŋø/ > [kʷʰɜŋø] kwengö the bogeyman
/ʔP/ > [P'] applies to any plosive + glottal stop combination, either initially (rare) or medially (marginally more common); one could say that there are phonemic ejectives, since they do show up initially in roots ([k'oʍ] <ghow> be still), but I've yet to find or make any minimal pairs, so for now they are non-contrastive and describable as the result of initial /ʔ/-stop clusters; they are written as the non-aspirated form of the stop followed by <h>.
Additionally, and rather importantly, C1V1# #C2V1# > C1V1C2. There are exceptions to this with the pronouns, where you get C1V1# #C2V2# > C1V1C2 whenever they're singular and directly followed by their (informal) classifiers, and also with classifiers and argument placeholders in general, since they tend to combine idiosyncratically. This is why why the argument string (n-ë na o t-o ta) "you make a thing happen to me" is realized as nën os ta while (t-o ta o n-ë na) "I make a thing happen to you" comes out as tos o nën.
(Though pronouns tend to drop anyway, so realistically these would be nas and tas.)
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Writing System:
In addition to the Latin orthography given above, HyPry has a handful of its own writing systems that I'll get around to describing eventually. I'll put a link to posts on the sun-form script as I make them; this is a logography based on intersecting circles. Here's one breakdown of Dräxw tlwum fih da, rën zwërz a "It was storming all day yesterday".
Next up: Nouns. Or maybe particle physics. Probably neither.