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New auxiliary attempt

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So I'm trying to make an Auxiliary Language. It's not going to catch on, I know, but that's not really the point... The point is more to be able to have something I can speak with my friends and to have something that I can improve my language making skills with.
So because its an auxiliary, the phonology is very simple.
-Consonants-
Nasals: /m/ /n/
Plosives: /p/ /pʰ/ /t/ /tʰ/ /k/ /kʰ/
Fricatives:/s/ /ʃ/
Affricates:/t͡s/ /t͡ʃ/
Approximants: /j/
Tap or Flaps: /ɾ/

-Vowels-
Close: /i/ /i:/ /ɯ/ /ɯ:/
Open-Mid: /ɛ/ /ɛ:/ /ʌ/ /ʌ:/
Open:/a/ /a:/

-Phonotactics-
Onset, all consonants and affricates
Nucleus, all vowels and elongated vowels
Coda, all consonants EXCEPT unaspirated plosives and /ɾ/


that's basically it for that. I don't really have any diphthongs, so you could call it a CVC or a CCVC depending on how you look at Affricates and how you look at the sound /j/.

-NOUNS-

So I made it so that all nouns end in /ʌ/.

for noun cases, I made a weird system up. To make it easier to learn for others, I did something similar to the similarity between the suffix 's and the word of in english, but for almost all of my noun cases.

So here's the full chart:

Nominative: noun ends in /nɛ/

Accusative: noun ends in /mʌ/

Genetive: EITHER noun ends in /ɾa/, or the word /nɛɾa/ comes before the noun (like 's and of)

Locative: EITHER noun ends in /t͡ʃɯ/ or the word /nɛt͡ʃɯ/ comes before the noun (like at in english or ni in japanese (I think))

Ablative: Either noun ends in /kʌ/ or the word /nɛkʌ/ comes before the noun (from)

Dative/Allative:Either noun ends in /tɛ/ or the word /nɛtɛ/ comes before the noun (to)

Perlative: Either noun ends in /t͡si/ or the word /nɛt͡si/ comes before the noun (via)

Benefactive: Either noun ends in /ʃʌ/ or the word /nɛʃʌ/ comes before the noun (for)

Instrumental: Either noun ends in /sɯj/ or the word /nɛsɯj/ comes before the noun (with/using)


So those are all those... Some may say a lot, but I mean there's an english equivalent for quite all of these (just not an english equivalent suffix)

-VERBS-

So for all infinitives, after the root of the verb comes /as/

the root should end in a consonants, but the infinitive should end with /as/ as stated above.

to give an example, I have the word that I may or may not keep, /sɛɾas/, which means to jump.

for the present tense, there are no prefixes. but for the past, future, and future-relative-to-past, there are. same with progressive, perfect, and perfect-progressive aspects.

So here's the chart:
----------------------------------------------Past(t͡ʃi)--------Present--------Future(kɛ)--------FRTP(ʃɯ)
-------------------------Simple(a)-------t͡ʃisera------------sera-------------kɛsera---------------ʃɯsera
----------------Progressive(aj)-------t͡ʃiseraj-----------seraj------------kɛseraj--------------ʃɯseraj
---------------------Perfect(asa)-------t͡ʃiserasa-------serasa---------kɛserasa----------ʃɯserasa
Perfect Progressive(asaj)-------t͡ʃiserasaj------serasaj--------kɛserasaj----------ʃɯserasaj


I really would like opinions.


EDIT: I'll change the verb conjugation like this, fix some errors, and give some more info:

----------------------------------------------Past(t͡ʃi:)--------Present--------Future(kɛ)--------FRTP(ʃɯ)
-------------------------Simple(a)-------t͡ʃi:sɛra------------sɛra-------------kɛsɛra----------ʃɯsɛra
----------------Progressive(aj)-------t͡ʃi:sɛraj-----------sɛraj------------kɛsɛraj-----------ʃɯsɛraj
---------------------Perfect(asa)-------t͡ʃi:sɛrasa-------sɛrasa-----------kɛsɛrasa----------ʃɯsɛrasa
Perfect Progressive(asaj)-------t͡ʃi:sɛrɯ-----------sɛrɯ----------kɛsɛrɯ-------------ʃɯsɛrɯ

For commands, instead of using the present simple like in english, I have a different conjugation where after the verb root you add /ɛ/. for example, if I were to tell you to jump, I would say /sɛrɛ/.

I understand that there are some sounds that I really am not using very much and might use later, but they could get cut and replaced or just removed. The most obvious being elongated vowels and aspirated plosives.
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Re: New auxiliary attempt

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Did you ever attempt this project with your friends?
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