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Solved about 90% of the problems emerging in my artlang by restricting root words to a single syllable. Now to revise about 20,000 words of grammatical definition...
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Decided to add humble consonant gradation to my Uralic lang. It only appears when the root vowels is a single sonoric consont. In Strong grade the consont is prestopped. The preceding syllable is still open and can have a diphtong.

Éna 'woman'

NOM éne [eine]
ACC édne [ei.dne]

Kóle 'school'

NOM kóle [ku:le]
ACC kódle [ku:.dle]
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I originally indicated the construct state for biconsonantal roots through the pattern ʾeCC, but this created too many illegal consonant clusters so now Vrkhazhian indicates it with the removal of the gender endings and inverse voicing of the final consonant:

šada "mouth" > šat "mouth-of"
šuḳi "king" > šug "king-of"
bala "path" > baś "path-of"
hazi "man" > has "man-of"

The construct state can also be used predicatively, like the Akkadian status absolutus:
ḳa tuhas.
2ms-NOM ACC-man\CONS-SG
ḳa tuhazi yu.
2ms-NOM man ACC-man-MASC.SG be\ACT.PRES.SG
He is a man.

Vrkhazhian now has an instrumental case, mostly to indicate the theme of a ditransitive verb. Vrkhazhian also no longer has progressive tenses but still makes a distinction between realis (factual) and irrealis (counterfactual) tenses.
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Omzinesý wrote: 26 Mar 2018 10:51 Decided to add humble consonant gradation to my Uralic lang. It only appears when the root vowels is a single sonoric consont. In Strong grade the consont is prestopped. The preceding syllable is still open and can have a diphtong.

Éna 'woman'

NOM éne [eine]
ACC édne [ei.dne]

Kóle 'school'

NOM kóle [ku:le]
ACC kódle [ku:.dle]
Loan words also have prestopped sonorants word-initially.
Tran, trande 'beach, coast' <- Swe. strand
Kňyt, kňytte 'guy'

All plosives cannot precede a sonorant word-initially and reduce to prestopped sonorants.
Trize 'crisis'
Trop, troppe 'body' <- Swe. kroppa
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I figured out how to do causatives in Otvei. They use the word un, meaning simply "cause, make," followed by the subordinating particle ek, followed by the action that was caused to happen.

Ex:
Ro unai ek sep amzeai.
fire.NOM cause-3SG SUBORD ice.NOM melt-3SG
The fire melts the ice. (Literally: The fire causes that the ice melts. Amze is always intransitive, which is why a causative construction is needed.)
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A Kankonian rule I've had for a while:

A noun one of which belongs to each of many is kept in the singular if each has only one of them. For instance, you would say:

Geteres Dantonik alushen hothos na mem hair heshra.
soldier-PL Danton-ian sacrifice-PST life of 3p for heshra
The Dantonese soldiers gave their life for the heshra.

Instead of:

Geteres Dantonik alushen hothas na mem hair heshra.
soldier-PL Danton-ian sacrifice-PST life-PL of 3p for heshra
The Dantonese soldiers gave their lives for the heshra.

Today, a new twist on it:

The exception is with a noun like "shakti" (house) for which more than one possessor could be ambiguous. In such cases, the singular is used if the multiple possessors share a single unit, and the plural used if the multiple possessors each have their own unit:

Is shahemden shakti na Zhoya mui Vrandi.
1s go_down_to-PST house of Zhoya and Vrandi
I went down to Zhoya and Vrandi's house.

Kam sayup spas is adiros shaktas na Mark mui Asha.
on next week 1s visit-FUT house-PL of Mark and Asha
Next week, I will visit Mark's and Asha's houses.

Wiri mui mopiga retelen shakti na mem.
man and woman paint-PST house of 3p
The man and woman painted their house. [They live in the same house.]

Wiri mui mopiga retelen shaktas na mem.
man and woman paint-PST house-PL of 3p
The man and woman painted their houses. [They live in the different houses.]
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Why not just use /hal/ to emphasize that each person has a house?

E.G.

Is shahemden shakti na Zhoya mui Vrandi
1s go_down_to-PST house of Zhoya and Vrandi
I went down to Zhoya and Vrandi's house.
(They both own the same house which I visited)

BUT

Is shahemden shakti nahal Zhoya mui Vrandi.
1s go_down_to-PST house of=each Zhoya and Vrandi
I went down to Zhoya and Vrandi's houses.
(I visited the houses of each of them)
:?: :wat: :?:

Or mebbe the other way around, since /hal/ is a root that seems to mean 'every' or 'all' (collective) , yet you have that little idiomatic usage where is can mean "each"

…Or mebbe not.
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Ahzoh wrote: 26 Mar 2018 11:20 I originally indicated the construct state for biconsonantal roots through the pattern ʾeCC, but this created too many illegal consonant clusters so now Vrkhazhian indicates it with the removal of the gender endings and inverse voicing of the final consonant:

šada "mouth" > šat "mouth-of"
šuḳi "king" > šug "king-of"
bala "path" > baś "path-of"
hazi "man" > has "man-of"

The construct state can also be used predicatively, like the Akkadian status absolutus:
ḳa tuhas.
2ms-NOM ACC-man\CONS-SG
ḳa tuhazi yu.
2ms-NOM man ACC-man-MASC.SG be\ACT.PRES.SG
He is a man.

Vrkhazhian now has an instrumental case, mostly to indicate the theme of a ditransitive verb. Vrkhazhian also no longer has progressive tenses but still makes a distinction between realis (factual) and irrealis (counterfactual) tenses.
What would the historical cause for inverse voicing be?
I see final devoicing is very common, but what causes the final voicing?
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Omzinesý wrote: 06 Apr 2018 20:36 What would the historical cause for inverse voicing be?
I see final devoicing is very common, but what causes the final voicing?
Probably the same ones as Dholuo.
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Ahzoh wrote: 06 Apr 2018 22:50
Omzinesý wrote: 06 Apr 2018 20:36 What would the historical cause for inverse voicing be?
I see final devoicing is very common, but what causes the final voicing?
Probably the same ones as Dholuo.
WTF moments! It really happens somewhere! Wow!
That was interesting to know. Does anybody know a historical explanation for such a phenomenon?
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Not for this language, but there was some other language where intervocalic voicing for some reason almost only affected the consonant between the penultimate and the ultimate syllable, if the last syllable was open. This was followed by deletion of the final vowel and there you go. It looks like final voicing. This was probably somewhere on (northern) Eurasia, but I forgot which language it was.
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I saw a thread asking about a conscript that was designed for digital media such as stock tickers etc .... I cant find the thread now but this is my entry:

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/me2y60d53m84by ... ript10.png

Each row is a diff version of the same alphabet, which has only 30 syllables.
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Pabappa wrote: 11 Apr 2018 03:48 I saw a thread asking about a conscript that was designed for digital media such as stock tickers etc .... I cant find the thread now but this is my entry:
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/me2y60d53m84by ... ript10.png
Each row is a diff version of the same alphabet, which has only 30 syllables.
I like it.
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Today I was able to embed Instagram videos on my new LCS-sponsored website. It's still a work in progress, but it's coming along.
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I like it
thanks. https://dl.dropbox.com/s/auawgeyar51tlv ... L-bw-3.png <----- another one.... a HYPER-minimalist script of 100 letters thats about as small as it can be. There are actually 400 letters, depending on whether the bottoms are drawn in or not. These are for tones.thus can be considered as diacritics.

I know the img is ridiculously small... I will post something better when I have the labels on. For now, in Photoshop, it's easier to just work pixel by pixel.

This is the same language as the other scripts... I think that this script would be difficult to rread, since almmost every detail matters and it's a syllabary so context won't help either... But this is just the minimalist "bare bones" form of the script, whereas in proper use some lines would be curved, lengthened, etc. Also, the number of syllables quickly dropped below 100.
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I had resolved to arise by noon today, and I did! Success!
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I re-wrote my folklore story which showcases the new modified version of the Lorthoan script.
The Unlucky Fox

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ˈʃadaɾ lhaˈɾanɛ ˈdasat dʰaˈɾakʰinat ˈhaɾlikʰi ˈnupʰi.
kʰaˈbalikʰi ˈnupʰi dalˈhotamɛkʰon dʰaˈhaɾlikʰa ˈhalhadaɾ a.
kiˈlikʰikʰi ˈikʰi ˈmolha kanˈsapumɛ.
ˈhaɾlikʰa diɾdʰaˈlama lidalˈhota mokanˈsapɔɪna.
kʰaɾ ˈkʰɛsikʰi ˈnupʰi kanˈsapumɛ dɛˈnalikʰu kanˈsapu luˈkʰotʰumɛ ˈhana tuˈʃadikʰu ˈkʰaʃumɛ ˈnupʰinalo.
ˈtʰaɾikʰu ˈbonhan ˈmonu sauˈɾamːu ˈtʰasamɛ ˈnupʰinalo.
Romanized Text
Spoiler:
shadar lharane dasat dharakhinat harlikhi nuphi.
khabalikhi nuphi dalhotamekhon dhaharlikha halhadar a.
kilikhikhi ikhi molha kansapume.
harlikha dirdhalama lidalhota mokansapoina.
khar khesikhi nuphi kansapume denalikhu kansapu lukhothume hana tushadikhu khashume nuphinalo.
tharikhu bonhan monu saurammu thasame nuphinalo.
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shadar  lhara-ne dasat      dharakhi  -nat harl-ikh-i    nuphi
ago.ADV year -PL beyond.ADV mountain.M-ABL be  -PST-3MSG fox.M
Once upon a time, there was the fox

khabal-ikh-i    nuphi dalhota-me -khon dha-harl-ikh-a    halhadar a
search-PST-3MSG fox.M food.N -ACC-but  NEG-be  -PST-3NSG much.ADJ PN.3NSG
The fox searched for food, but there was not much of it

kilikh-ikh-i    ikhi molha  kansapu-me
see   -PST-3MSG one  huge-N tree.N -ACC
It saw a huge tree

harl-ikh-a    dir     -dhalam-a li          -dalhota mo   -kansapo-ina
be  -PST-3NSG SUPERL  -good  -N PN.POSS.3MSG-food.N  that -tree.F -SUBL
Its favorite food was in that tree

khar khes   -ikh-i    nuphi kansapu-me  denal-ikh-u    kansapu lu          -khothu-me  hana tushad-ikh-u    khashu-me  nuphi-nalo
when scratch-PST-3MSG fox.M tree.F -ACC close-PST-3FSG tree.F  PN.POSS.3FSG-wall.F-ACC and  bury  -PST-3FSG head.F-ACC fox.M-GEN
When the fox scratched the tree, the tree closed its wall (here it means bark) and buried (trapped) the fox's head

thar-ikh-u    bonhan mon  -u saurammu thasa -me  nuphi-nalo
eat -PST-3FSG twenty other-F animal.F head.N-ACC fox.M-GEN
Twenty other animals ate the fox's body
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I divided the continent of Ashrna into its language families. My new language family, Bolu-Swto is a member of the Ashrnic language family.
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nice Ahzoh, and also other people (:
I prefer to not be referred to with masculine pronouns and nouns such as “he/him/his”.
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bbbourq wrote: 20 Apr 2018 01:09
Spoiler:
I re-wrote my folklore story which showcases the new modified version of the Lorthoan script.
The Unlucky Fox

Image

IPA
Spoiler:
ˈʃadaɾ lhaˈɾanɛ ˈdasat dʰaˈɾakʰinat ˈhaɾlikʰi ˈnupʰi.
kʰaˈbalikʰi ˈnupʰi dalˈhotamɛkʰon dʰaˈhaɾlikʰa ˈhalhadaɾ a.
kiˈlikʰikʰi ˈikʰi ˈmolha kanˈsapumɛ.
ˈhaɾlikʰa diɾdʰaˈlama lidalˈhota mokanˈsapɔɪna.
kʰaɾ ˈkʰɛsikʰi ˈnupʰi kanˈsapumɛ dɛˈnalikʰu kanˈsapu luˈkʰotʰumɛ ˈhana tuˈʃadikʰu ˈkʰaʃumɛ ˈnupʰinalo.
ˈtʰaɾikʰu ˈbonhan ˈmonu sauˈɾamːu ˈtʰasamɛ ˈnupʰinalo.
Romanized Text
Spoiler:
shadar lharane dasat dharakhinat harlikhi nuphi.
khabalikhi nuphi dalhotamekhon dhaharlikha halhadar a.
kilikhikhi ikhi molha kansapume.
harlikha dirdhalama lidalhota mokansapoina.
khar khesikhi nuphi kansapume denalikhu kansapu lukhothume hana tushadikhu khashume nuphinalo.
tharikhu bonhan monu saurammu thasame nuphinalo.
Leipzig Gloss
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shadar  lhara-ne dasat      dharakhi  -nat harl-ikh-i    nuphi
ago.ADV year -PL beyond.ADV mountain.M-ABL be  -PST-3MSG fox.M
Once upon a time, there was the fox

khabal-ikh-i    nuphi dalhota-me -khon dha-harl-ikh-a    halhadar a
search-PST-3MSG fox.M food.N -ACC-but  NEG-be  -PST-3NSG much.ADJ PN.3NSG
The fox searched for food, but there was not much of it

kilikh-ikh-i    ikhi molha  kansapu-me
see   -PST-3MSG one  huge-N tree.N -ACC
It saw a huge tree

harl-ikh-a    dir     -dhalam-a li          -dalhota mo   -kansapo-ina
be  -PST-3NSG SUPERL  -good  -N PN.POSS.3MSG-food.N  that -tree.F -SUBL
Its favorite food was in that tree

khar khes   -ikh-i    nuphi kansapu-me  denal-ikh-u    kansapu lu          -khothu-me  hana tushad-ikh-u    khashu-me  nuphi-nalo
when scratch-PST-3MSG fox.M tree.F -ACC close-PST-3FSG tree.F  PN.POSS.3FSG-wall.F-ACC and  bury  -PST-3FSG head.F-ACC fox.M-GEN
When the fox scratched the tree, the tree closed its wall (here it means bark) and buried (trapped) the fox's head

thar-ikh-u    bonhan mon  -u saurammu thasa -me  nuphi-nalo
eat -PST-3FSG twenty other-F animal.F head.N-ACC fox.M-GEN
Twenty other animals ate the fox's body
I love your script. Already saw some examples on your site.
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