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Yes, [ɹ] & [β] are allophones of /ɰ/ (Or /ɯ/, if you prefer). /ɑ/ has no allophony.



The stress is realised as a dynamic accent. And yes, it's very finnish-y, i tried to avoid phonemic stress to keep the phonology ridiculously minimal, and first syllable just seems a good "default" position for the stress.



Lengthening of the syllable nucleus.

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Thanks, CrazyEttin.

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And Version 1 is finally here!

Why Version 1 instead of Version 0.2, you might ask.
Simple. I change major version number every time i have to scrap the whole vocabulary because of changes in the language.

...And yes, i will complete the parts about indefinite pronouns and subordinate clauses when i'm not so busy studying (=Trying to avoid studying).

Constructive criticism is very welcome.

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What does mean?
Does this mean all conjunctions are roots, or does it mean all roots are conjunctions?


What does mean?
How can something that's never marked on nouns, be marked by adding something to the noun suffix?

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Group "Root morphemes" contains the group "Free morphemes" which is identical to the group "Conjunctions".



What i meant with that is that since adverbs and adjectives are fully interchangeable, and word in absolutive, when used as modifiers, can modify both nouns (As genitive) and verbs (As locative), i wanted to say that ablative and lative can only modify verbs, and using them to modify nouns would just be ungrammatical. Now that you pointed it out, i see that i worded that very poorly in the pdf, sorry.

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Where is the phone(me) inventary table?
How does your assimilating "vowel" assimilate to the glottal stop?

Why do you say your syllabic nucleus is not a vowel (the not vowel one)?
ɰ, ɯ are the same sound. It's just about the position in the syllable. ɯ is a coda, and ɰ is an onset. I can be wrong.


Because you are making an odd phonology, I can't help suggesting the bilarial trill /ʙ/ (the horse stopping sound). It could be allophonic variation too, with [r] maybe.

There isn't a phoneme inventory table, everything is in the text of the phonology chapter.
The syllabic consonant doesn't assimilate to the glottal stop, it's just [ʔɰ]. It's the only exception to that rule.



I know, but since every other allophone of that phoneme is written in IPA with a "consonant letter", i thought it would look better if i used ɰ.



No, there's enough allophony as it is.
Also, for some weird reason trill consonants are extremely hard for me to pronounce, and i like to be able to pronounce my conlangs.

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You *can* be wrong, but not necessarily. According to the well-known online encyclopaedia, it may depend on the language:

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Made a script for Chángtagxmta:

•Example
•Font

The script is based on latin alphabet, modified to better suit carving on stone and wood, the primary writing media of the Antregabua, and it's used only very rarely when writing on paper or other media.

And yes, i consider this a form of latin alphabet. If blackletter counts as latin, then this one definitely counts too.

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What about a grammar of one?

Have to look!
I have a grammar of Dholuo. But it doesn't seem very interesting actually. Maybe that's better.

Version 2 is here!

I also updated the script and the font.

This is also the last change of name of the language. I changed it to Antregabua, since that's the english ethnonym of the speakers of the lang, and english likes to use ethnonyms for languages.

What do you think?

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I like it, but I think that the descriptions should be just longer. The conlang is very interesting and I'd like to see a little longer explanations.

BTW, i have a phoneme inventory which is smaller than that of Antregabua. It is /p t a ɔ/.

Also, what font did you use for the grammar? I think it's Charis SIL, but it just looks different than in MS Word on my computer.

I don't really know how to write any longer descriptions, since it all makes sense to me. What would you like me to write more about?

Also there's apparently not enough example sentences, i'll be adding more of them too.







You guessed correctly, it's Charis SIL (I love that font). And, of course, my own font for the Antregabua script.

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CrazyEttin wrote: 2-4 wrote: I like it, but I think that the descriptions should be just longer. The conlang is very interesting and I'd like to see a little longer explanations. I don't really know how to write any longer descriptions, since it all makes sense to me. What would you like me to write more about?

I'd like descriptions of irregularities and covering complement clauses in the syntax section (if they are permitted, of course).

There aren't really that many exceptions. There were of course exceptions in Proto-Antregabua, but the simplification of the phonology has erased nearly all of them, and the few of them that remain are vocabulary-dependent (Eg. with verb for going on a trading or war expedition (Yes i copied the concept from vikings) the destination is not in lative but in accusative).

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What is new compared to the later paper, or is that just a better description?

It's better description (At least i hope it is), and there are some changes. I got rid of the tone completely and changed the rules for clitics, which meant loss of tense conjugation (I could probably add it some other way, but i like it the way it is now). I also changed some stuff about the usage of oblique cases, especially what cases are used for possession. The indefinite pronouns are also an open word class in this version.

And then there's the script and the oddities of the literary standard of the language.

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Fine

I don't think I'll ever be able to read the romanisation fluently with the proper pronunciation, but I do love this language so much<3 I love how you've put so much effort into something that pretty much started out as a joke/challenge and actually made it interesting and, at least to me, æsthetically pleasing.

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