New CBB

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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constructedlanguages.net

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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Native
Mutually intelligibile with native language
Almost fluent
Little
Little more
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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The language has /ɽ/ (the Japanese R).

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

i a ɯ ʌ ɛ
aː ʌː
i˞ ɯ˞ ɛ˞

Allophony:

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

Phonotactics:

C(C)VCC (Do you really mean C(C)VCC, or did you mean C(C)VC(C)? With a minimal structure of CVCC it would be hard to use certain sounds, and borrowed words that only ended with one consonant would require the additon of a second consonant.)
/ɥ/ cannot end a word.


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
no /p/
no /b/
no phonemic nasals (although we haven't ruled out nasals as allophones)
no phonemic rounded vowels

We've finished our phonemic inventory. We still have to work on allophony, phonotactics and stress rules.

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My Kankonian-English dictionary: 36,000 entries and counting

31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!

Vowel length is only contrastive in stressed syllables. Or, alternatively stated: the length distinction is neutralised in unstressed syllables.

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Question: do the long vowels count as separate phonemes in our lang?

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Phonemic vowel length for /aː ʌː/ only.




Yes. :D

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力在公蝦米????

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Plosives are realized as nasals word-finally and after rhoticized vowels.

Is this a green light for scrapping the requirement that all syllables end in two consonants? I can't imagine pronouncing /tʌsd̤/ as [tʌzn].

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31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!

Sure.
Perhaps (C)(C)VC(C) would work better? The stricter form C(C)VCC could be kept in verb stems.

Voiceless consonants are never aspirated - no [tʰ kʰ ʧʰ etc.)

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If you need a new verb, you form it with "to do", "to make", "to have", etc. and an object noun, so "to apologize" is "to make an apology" and "to explore" is "to do exploration".

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My Kankonian-English dictionary: 36,000 entries and counting

31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!

Vowels become rounded after labialized consonants and within stressed syllables. They are unrounded otherwise.