I'm playing with a bi-consonantal root-structure language, but I'm having trouble actually choosing the shapes the words will have, insofar as choosing how vowels will arrange around a given root to produce a given derivation.
I have 8 noun classes that follow an animacy hierarchy
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agent subj adj obj thm
h
hp
a
ap
i
ip
ab
loc
XVYV
XVY
VXVY
VXYV
VXVYV
(I've decided against any reduplication (for now)) ---- and vowels can be: a i u (and maybe the diphthongs au and ai)
However, having got this far I am now stuck as to which templates should correspond to which part of the grid, and furthermore which vowels to put around them! Any pointers as to where to go from here would be most helpful.