New CBB

Sorry, what? How? Why?

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Dotjen
Kotanese

Do hand gestures count as phonemes?

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You should probably try ignoring any suggestion that is aimed more at causing confusion than contributing.

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Ikasmu ati'uki nai uraiur.
Hinai nimuśim naimi nai sasamiur urukani. Śi'ama nai huhumiur na ni'amuśim nai sasamiur.
Pumaki nimuśim śima'a na ami nimuśim ara'a. Hini nihrasum i'aku tumra urukani na nihrasum sanik hraspir.

Let's say there are 16 noun cases, however they may be formed.

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One of the noun cases is partitive, used, among other things, to indicate atelicity

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Dotjen
Kotanese

There is no wh-movement.

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It's simply telicity.

The conlang has no definite article, but an indefinite one.

The language has a body-part based numeral system.

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The conlang has a NOM-ABSOL alignment.

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Banami bhjaddhos rafi mau cy vyaja cecerror.
Fools do not see the sun nor sail the seas
-Azenti Proverb

Oops, right on, I guess I had read that wrong Let's make that the fifth degree then.



I am shocked, appalled even, that you would insinuate such a thing In all seriousness though, I would be glad to elaborate on it if you wish; I guess I've spent too much time lurking the ZBB, with their quickly-escalating outlandish community langs (There was one I haven't been able to find, good Lord it was horrible).

I'll just count the edit I did of the one above my contribution for this post.

What?

Weird, I swear Nominative-Absolutive was a kind of morphosyntactic alignment.

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Banami bhjaddhos rafi mau cy vyaja cecerror.
Fools do not see the sun nor sail the seas
-Azenti Proverb

Looks like some kind of inconsistency here, but it can be solved:

The language is NOM-ABS for animates, and ERG-ABS for inanimates.

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Meaning that telicity is marked with another case, probably ACC or something, and that the partitive is used opposite that.

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Dotjen
Kotanese

Concrete locations are expressed with a noun with cases marked (behind = at the back of, on top of = at the top of, beneath = at the bottom of, etc.)

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31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!

Indefinite pronouns are based on interrogatives. (So, instead of saying 'someone' and 'something', one might say something like 'somewho' and 'somewhat')

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/ʎ̥/ cannot be labialized.

Review of the phonology so far:

t d̤ c ɟ̤ k g̤
tʷ d̤ʷ kʷ g̤ʷ
s ʃ ʎ̥ x
sʷ ʃʷ
ts tʃ cʎ kx
tsʷ tʃʷ
ɥ

i a ɯ ʌ ɛ
i˞ ɯ˞ ɛ˞

Allophony:

Voiceless fricatives become voiced (so /s/ becomes [z], etc.) before voiced plosives.
Possible allophonic glottal stop?

phonemic labialization on plosives, fricatives and affricates
no /cʷ/ or /ɟ̤ʷ/
only labialized affricates are /tsʷ/and /tʃʷ/
/ʎ̥/ and /x/ cannot be labialized
breathy voiced plosives
phonemic pharyngealized consonants
four affricates
3 POA for plosives and corresponding afficates. (fourth is perhaps a lateral affricate)
vowel length distinction
phonemic rhotacized vowels (the rhoticized versions of /i ɯ ɛ / are the only rhotic vowels)
36 phonemes in all (~31 atm)
no /p/
no /b/
no phonemic nasals (although we haven't ruled out nasals as allophones)
no phonemic rounded vowels

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31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!

a and ʌ can be long or short.

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Mutually intelligibile with native language
Almost fluent
Little
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Everybody can speak it!
Speedlang

/t/ and /s/ are the only consonants that can be pharyngealized.

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31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!

A word can't end in /ɥ/.

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