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The consonants are fine, if a bit (a lot) Englishy.

In the vowels, it seems like the /a/ would pattern as a backer counterpart to /ɛ/, just like /i/ and /u/, and /e/ and /o/.
If not, why?

Ssīçēno. Qōruam' anē?
/sːiʃenɔ || qɔrʊ̯əməne/
ssīç-ēn-o || qōr-ua-mi=anē
understand-IND.PRF-1s.ACT || talk-OPT.PRF-1s.ACT=question.clitic
I understand now. Shall we converse?

Now that I've filled in the bones of the verbal morphology I can say things like this.
Now on to nouns...

Antequam moriar... orbem terram vincam!
antequam mori-ar orb-em terr-am vinc-am!
before die-1s.ACT.IND.FUT world-ACC.SG earth-ACC.SG conquer-1s.ACT.IND.FUT
"Before I die... I will conquer the whole wide world!"

If there is a labialized /nʷ/ there will be a plain /n/. What happened to the plain /n/? I don't know, I didn't think about this phonology much; as I said, I just sketched something up to revive this thread and make a contrast to European phonologies. Keep in mind that if you have interesting gaps,...

If there is a labialized /nʷ/ there will be a plain /n/. What happened to the plain /n/?

Is there a reason why you have as your only nasal consonant /m/? Usually it's /n/.

When I saw your name on the board, I went on this thread just to comment on how I knew what you were going to say. 8-)

Can you explain the strange gaps?

Plus you can't have both palatalization and velarization on a consonant.

Read the stickies.

A clitic is sorta like an affix, but it can attach to a phrase and is often not limited to only one part of speech. It operates syntactically like a separate word, but phonologically it acts like an affix. e.g. cats and cat's are phonologically the same, but the plural morpheme -s is an affix, where...

I just want to say:

FUCK YEAH ASPECT

So what exactly is the difference? Those English translations mean exactly the same thing to me.

Micamo wrote:

Sankon wrote:You're giving us a list of affixes without telling us what they do or how they act or how they interact with different things or how syntax works or how...

meh

It's a romclone.

It does everything that romclones do.

Yeah, but he should at least explain how this romclone works...

You're giving us a list of affixes without telling us what they do or how they act or how they interact with different things or how syntax works or how...

meh

Ah, ok. The use and meaning of the diffiditive is not solely that of an optative with negative polarity. This is especially apparent in if...then statements, where the optative conveys factual situations, where the protasis necessarily implies the apodosis: If it snows, I wake up late. If snow-OPT, ...

Most people are going to naturally view their native language as the standard upon which all other langs are judged. ..... That's the point. This shit is hard, because I have nothing to compare it to. I didn't even think of those different uses of "can" until you pointed them out--I just ...

And marking both negative polarity and optative wouldn't work because negative polarity isn't marked on the verb. Why does the negative polarity need to also be on the verb? I don't get the question. I just said that it doesn't mark negative polarity on the verb; the diffiditive case, while essenti...

See, that's my point. Having multiple particles to express one modal, is, for lack of a better term, idiotic. Laughable even, when the Germanic languages (Best Language family in my opinion) have shown that you need only one or two words for all those forms. I don't like having complicated systems ...

See, that's my point. Having multiple particles to express one modal, is, for lack of a better term, idiotic. Laughable even, when the Germanic languages (Best Language family in my opinion) have shown that you need only one or two words for all those forms. I don't like having complicated systems ...

Feayran doesn't morphologically mark tense (unless you count incorporating specific time-roots as locative arguments), but it does mark aspect . I just want to tell you how amazingly awesome that is and that I'm gonna steal it. Hope you don't mind. :-P Thanks! No problem. Do I get a footnote? I lov...