Pharos (Phare) - My Conlang

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Pharos is a language isolated spoken on an fairly large island that is part of the Japanese archipelago. For now, most of the language is still in its 'note' form; however, I have written a few notes in PDF format, albeit rather poorly, I have a lot more to do, though. I would love to get some feedback from the CBB community.

Here's the PDF link (Containing Phonology, Morphology and a bit on Nouns)
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3gqCqW ... sp=sharing

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Added some stuff about Pronouns and demonstratives; fixed a few errors and made it public.

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Revised the grammar, added some stuff about the verbs, prepositions, adjectives and adverbs; added some examples as well.

[nzk13]

Don't really have much to say, but it looks very well developed so far. I like it.

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Don't really have much to say, but it looks very well developed so far. I like it.

Well, thank you very much. I still have a lot to add, and to be honest, some of my ideas aren't really well fleshed out — that's why feedback is important.

Update: extra some stuff: more examples, prepositions and more on conjunctions.

[xijlwya]

Hey Blackscreen,

some good work in there. Actually, it's the only recent conlang on the board that really caught my interest.

Just from the quick glance at the new stuff: Is "He" oki or oshi? You used both forms in the document. I guess that Oshi is an old form you recently changed?

[nzk13]

On the last page, you speak about subordinating conjunctions and how they affect word order.

When a subordinating conjunction is used, the independent clause’s word order changes to SOV, rather than VSO.
Example: That man at the store, who is he?

Risono-jivori to stora, sokarâ oshi?
DIST-man at store, who he

Question: Earlier, you gave a simple example of a static adposition:

Static adpositions:

|He is at the store.
Oshi to *stora
He at store

Where is there SOV order in your example of a subordinating conjunction's ability to make the independent clause SOV? The word order looks identical in both examples. Also, in neither sentence are there any real verbs, due to what seems to be copula-dropping (zero copula?). Without a verb, SOV and VSO are both SO. Please explain. (The answer's probably terribly obvious, but I'm linguistically inexperienced.)

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Where is there SOV order in your example of a subordinating conjunction's ability to make the independent clause SOV? The word order looks identical in both examples. Also, in neither sentence are there any real verbs, due to what seems to be copula-dropping (zero copula?). Without a verb, SOV and VSO are both SO. Please explain. (The answer's probably terribly obvious, but I'm linguistically inexperienced.)

I apologize, it was an extremely bad example — I will rewrite it on next revision. And yes, the copula is nonexistent in Phare (to an extent).

Just from the quick glance at the new stuff: Is "He" oki or oshi? You used both forms in the document. I guess that Oshi is an old form you recently changed?

Yes, Oshi is the new form of the second person singular pronoun, oki, for me, did not sound right. it's a rather drafty revision — thanks for notifying me.