The CBB

Word-initial clusters are quite rare in Qutrussan, but so are vowel-initial words. In fact, no roots are vowel initial and this only occurs due to certain inflections. However, if a word ends in a consonant and the next word begins with a cluster, there is an epenthetic vowel. I'm thinking of makin...

Shonkasika

22: shach /ʃɑt͡ʃ/ n. neut. skill, ability
23: hânicha /hə'nit͡ʃɑ/ n. terr. omen
24: kolikh /'kolix/ n. neut. smile
25: jokaf /'d͡ʒokɑf/ n. neut. wound, injury

Shonkasika

19: levjezho n. wisdom
20: legiges n. teacher
21: letroges n. student

I've long been fascinated with PIE and the more conservative IE languages, which have influenced my own conlang, Shonkasika. All of this is to say, I love what I'm seeing so far! I look forward to seeing more!

Shonkasika

14: káviyo n. vice, bad habit
15: livma n. core, pit (fruit)
16: farranu v. rinse
17: kuha n. doubt
18: kuhanu v. doubt

I came up with a solution for representing hiatuses in Shonkasika that I'm satisfied with. The sequence, <hh>, which otherwise does not occur, will now be placed between two vowels that would otherwise form a diphthong. I didn't want to use diacritics since those are used to mark vowel quality or st...

Shonkasika day 13:

tawongá n canyon, gourge

Shonkasika day 12

maponu v brew

Shonkasika day 11:

sega n curl
seganu (< Shk. sega curl ) v curl
segaste (< Shk. seganu curl) (der. of seganu, -ste, see under seganu) adj curly
efa cf: efo . n wave (liquid)
efo cf: efa . n wave (hair, physics)

Shonksika day 10:

ilonu 1) v suffer 2) vt endure
pemunu v last
popemunu (der. of po-, pemunu) vi endure
pso- (< Shk. psodenu fail) 1) pfx involuntary 2) pfx accidental
psoganenu (der. of pso-, ganenu) v 1) spoil (plot) 2) reveal (accidentally)

Shonkasika

day 7: foste /'foste/ adj. equal, same, even (number)
day 8: cope /'t͡sope/ n. neut. bump, lump
day 9: fískola /'fiskola/ n. terrestrial advantage, use, aid

Shonkasika

day 5: wimó /wi'mo/ n. celestial soap
day 6: hleká /hle'kɑ/ n. terrestrial shoulder, top edge

Lexember 3rd: :con: Cissian троiца f/inan - trinity, a group of three, (rarely) trio trójica /ˈtro.ji.t͡sa/ ; gen. singular: троiцэ trójice /ˈtro.ji.t͡se/ ; nom. plural: троiци trójici /ˈtro.ji.t͡si/ From Proto-Slavic *trьje "three", suffixed with *-ica . доiцi verb, 4a - to milk, to expl...

I did some reorganization of Shonkasika's lexicon (I use SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer to manage it). I basically decided to treat middle, passive, and causative senses of a verb with notes about which voice to use rather than separate head entries. Here is an example: https://i.imgur.com/i2afnZV...

Shonkasika

day 3. fösu /'føsu/ n. rhythm, beat (music)

Shonkasika

day 1. hrädo /hrædo/ n. flake
day 2. jinyohrädo /d͡ʒiɲohrædo/ n. snowflake

I decided to loosen up the stress rules for Shonkasika. While most words of all classes are stressed on the penultimate syllable, I'm allowing for nouns and adjectives to be stressed on the ultima and the penultimate syllable. I decided to modify my orthography and declension rules to account for th...

After a significant period with out much work on Shonkasika (too much going with my job and other life), I have added an additional adjective class to the language. It is a basically a catch-all for adjectives that don't inflect for all six genders present in the conlang: https://i.imgur.com/Cl1Qh3n...

So Windows 10 Creator's update caused some issues with SIL FieldWorks, which is my main way of managing my lexicon. Basically, it crashed for me when I wanted to add multiple senses to an entry. While a fix is in the pipeline from Microsoft, I've found a workaround for the meantime: Run FieldWorks u...

Re-worked Yélian's mood system regarding permission, prohibition and obligation. There are three moods for that kind of stuff, the permissive mood (marked with prefix meg- ), the propositive mood (probs to Lambuzhao for that! marked with ra- ) and the necessitative mood (marked with ian- ). The pos...