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Subordinate clauses whose tenses are relative to the main one.

Adari's subordinate clauses have tenses, but they are not set in stone snd are in fact relative to the main clause's tense.

For example, if a main clause is in the past, and its subordinate clause in the present, the subordnate clause actually refers to the past as well. If the main clause is in the future, and the subordinate clause is in the past, then the subordinate refers to the present, actually. Both clauses in the past would mean that the subordinate was in the past of the past (in other words, sinilar to Latin's pluperfect).

Basically, Adari tenses can be arranged on a line: Past--Present--Future. For subordinate clauses, their tense is more along the lines of "going back one tense, staying in the same time, going foward one tense".

You may notice that this means that a sentence referring to the past and the future is impossible in Adari: the sentence "If he did it, we will be in trouble" wouldn't be possible. But it is, in an odd way. Both "If he did it, we will be in trouble" and "If he did it, we are in trouble" would both translate to the exact same sentence in Adari. Context must be used to figure it out.

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

Double post, I know, but I got another idea.

I have the idea of having NO verbs in Adari express aspect. They express just tense and mood. How do Azenians express aspect then? A style very similar to what I just described above is used. The verb is used with "Ariça" (to be) for motion verbs or Noiça (to do) for action verbs. The main erb is kept in the infinitive (infinitives in Adari mark for tense as well) and use the auxillary gerb as a normal one. Various combinations of tenses can mean different aspects:

The main verb in the present with the auxillary in the future is present progressive/imperfect. The main verb in the past and the auxillary in the present would be past imperfect. Both verbs in the Future would be future imperfect

Main verb in the present and auxillary in the past would be present perfect, while both in the past would be past perfect.

There's other combinations available, obviously, but I'm working out all the different possibilities.

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

Chagen, that's what I did with Ríhannen. Basicly, there are two sets of tenses, absolute and relative. The absolute set is used in main clauses; the relative set is used in subordinate clauses and has the meaning before/simultaneously/after the main action depending on the tense chosen.

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UNUS•ET•UNICUS

I'm thinking of having Adari scrap all/nearly all verbal conjugation related to number. That mogut make it too Japanese, though.

Pro-drop is cool, but I'm not feeling it for this lang.

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

An idea popped into my head today about a 'Representative' number, where someone speaks on behalf of others.

For example, if a Prime Minister were to attend a summit and say 'We of X country believe Y,' the 'We' would be in this person/number/something.

It would differ from your bog standard 3PP as it's used when you're not talking to the 'We'.

Has this been used before?

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초보

It looks to me a bit like an associative plural; might it be?

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You know, I think you might be right. I'll have to remember that.

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I would too because that interpretation is impossible.

Can I get a tie-breaker?

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Up in blue sky silly blimp goes by
Where it come from where it go
Ziggy-Zaggy it fly high

I think having one a prefix and the other a suffix sounds most interesting.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Should I add an interesting case irregularity?

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"Wait for the starvation of glaciers, chicken hamburger Noel Weber Arthur."

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Do you have cases in your lang?
What do you mean by irregularity?
I suppose most of time irregulariti is good, and if it's even interesting, wow.

Do you have some case laxative?

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I am not responsible for the accuracy of my sources; they're responsible for their own mistakes, if any, and also responsible for defending their own statements if you disagree with them.

Jon mii rjom njoskjò jùsxo skjo, ʒo ònno ʃìu om faj ʃìurowojn.
Ive been thinking to create a new conlang, in which all words are monosyllabic.

njòsxo do ʃìurow/syllable structure:
(C1)C2C3V(C4)

C1= f ʃ s x
C2= p b t d k g m n ts dz tʃ dʒ Ø
C3= v r l Ø
C4= t p k s ʃ f n m z v ʒ
V=(j or w) + ɑ ɒ æ ɛ œ i u ø ɨ ɤ + (ː) + (j or w)
C1 djo C4 faj rej sèjso mifajx djo ʃòriifajx
C1 and C4 will be prefixes and suffixes respectively

Nu jon rjow pudè on?
Should I go for it?

Diminutives and emphatics on verbs:

Sufort: "to jump"
Sufirort: "to hop" (diminutive )
Sufweort: "to leap" (emphatic)

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

Yay!

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I am not responsible for the accuracy of my sources; they're responsible for their own mistakes, if any, and also responsible for defending their own statements if you disagree with them.

Yay!

How are formed? Prefixes? Suffixes? Some other kind of -fixes?

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constructedlanguages.net

Ogonek or tilde in nasalization?

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"Wait for the starvation of glaciers, chicken hamburger Noel Weber Arthur."

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Tilde. Only I get to use ogoneks.

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PROTO-ONURE: Jutésa coconóco ga zuntús, na en rógcag ma pohús.

Should I throw in pharyngeals in one of my conlangs?

I was thinking of having them in either Mii or Nibmel.

Mii has only 9 phonemes:

/a i o p t k m n l/, so it could need some more. I could have <h> representing either a voiced or a voiceless pharyngeal.

Nibmel has more phonemes - a seven-vowel system, ejectives, contrastive aspiration, and some other stuff.

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Yes, although you should make them epiglottals.

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"Wait for the starvation of glaciers, chicken hamburger Noel Weber Arthur."

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