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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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CrazyEttin's Lair

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's Lair

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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CrazyEttin's Lair

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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CrazyEttin's Lair

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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Āā Ēē Īī Ōō Ūū ↗ Ṭṭ C̣c̣ Łł Ḍḍ Ṣṣ Ẓẓ Ṇṇ Ŋŋ e˞ o˞ ʷ ʲ ʰ ə

Thanks!

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CrazyEttin's Lair