New CBB

A language for a conworld I'm working on.

Orthography

Aa Bb Dd Ðð Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk K̈k̈ Ll Mm Nn N̈n̈ Oo Pp Rr Ss Tt Ŧŧ Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz

Accented and circumflex characters are used, but are not part of the alphabet.

Some extra characters can be replaced with digraphs if not appearing on keyboards.

Ðð-Dh dh
K̈k̈- Kh kh
N̈n̈- Ng ng
Ŧŧ- Th th

The names are as follows;

A Be De Edh E Ef Ge Ahha I Ej Ke Ekh El Em En Eng O Pe Er Es Te Eth U Ev We Ex Ye Ez

Phonology

Vowels:

/a aː ãː ɛ ɛ̃ e̞ː ɨ ɨ̃ iː ɔ ɔ̃ o̞ː ʉ ʉ̃ uː/ a a an e en e i in i o on o u un u

The vowels shown above come in tense and lax pairs. The distinction is not entire phonemic, however as words with similar spellings (nensar, /'nɛ̃saʁ/ "village" vs. nensâr, /'nɛ̃saːʁ/ "limit") gain a circumflex or accent to differentiate, yet the markings are also used for true homophones like (zuːl /'zuːl/ "coin" vs. zûl /'zuːl/ "chair").

All vowels are nasalized before nasal consonants <n>,<m>, and <ng>; which are changed to <nn>,<mm>, and <nng> to disallow the nasalization. No diphthongs or tense consonants are nasalized.

Diphthongs:

/ai̯ ɛi̯ ɔi̯ au̯ iu̯ uy̯/ ai ei oi au iu ui

The diphthongs are shown above in the standard dialect. A trema or accent may be placed on the first vowel to separate the phonemes.

Consonants:

/m n ŋ/ m n ng
/p b t d k g (ʔ)/ p b t d k g -h-
/θ ð s z ʃ ʒ χ ʁ (h)/ th dh s z x j kh r h-
/w f~ʋ̊ v~ʋ j l/ w f v y l

The phoneme /h/ is present only before vowels, if between two vowels it is realized as /ʔ/. The digraph <hh> is used in a limited number of words to represent /h/ between vowels.

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

What do you mean by 'not entire phonemic'? (Whether the contrast between two sounds is phonemic or not has nothing to do with how they are spelt.)

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As in, they are in free variation with another (for the most part).

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

If /h/ appears in the same environment with /ʔ/ why do you analyse them allophones?

Can a nasal vowel appear if it's not followed by a nasal consonant? May the oral vowel appear in a very nasal ensironment as in a word like /mam/ <mamm>?

Nouns

Nouns are divided according to gender, number, and case.

Masculine (-u,-wa,-we,-wi,-wo,-wu,-o,-u(consonant))

Lazu "quartz"



Feminine (-i,-ya,-ye,-yi,-yo,-yu,-e,-e(consonant))

Yagi "town"



Neuter (-consonant, -a)

Fosa "seringe"

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

So, you have four cases representing agent, voluntary experiencer, direct object and indirect object.

I suppose that in a canonical transitive clause (like "A hits B"), there is an agent and a direct object. What about intransitive sentences? Is the only participant normally treated as a "voluntary experiencer"? Or does it differ, from verb to verb, so that some intransitive verbs may take an agent, others a voluntary experiencer, and yet others have their only argument in the direct or indirect object case?

What case(s) is/are used for possessors/genitive constructions? With adpositions?

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Nasal vowels can appear before nasals if they're doubled.

I never said /h/ and 'alef were allophones. Medial /h/ appears in loanwords, and non-standard dialectal terms.

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

If a phoneme Y realizes as X, doesn't that mean X is an allophone of Y?
But well they aren't.
You should make a different phonology section and a different ortography section.
But the ortography seems interesting, however.

Does 'before vowels' mean 'word-initially'? Or can /h/ occur in syllable onset, within a word? You have no section on phonotactics yet, so I don't know what kinds of syllables are allowed.

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Yes

The possessive/genitive is formed using adpositions.

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

/h/ is only [h] natively word-initial (before vowels only), the <hh> digraph represents [h] intervocally in substandard words and the letter name Ahha. 'Ayin appears between vowels as an allophone of /h/. /h/ does not

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ

What is Yionreg sandhi like? How does the phonontactics work? For instance, can you say something /xpknapt/?

What determines a noun's gender? In some languages, the shape of the inanimate determines its gender. Is this true of Yionreg? Or is it entirely random?

Is it possible to alter the grammatical gender?

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Gender is random and semivariable.

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Áá Āā Ää Åå Ææ Ðđ Ēē Ĕĕ Éé Ëë Əə H́h́ Īī İi Iı Íí Ïï Łł Ññ Öö Øø Ōō Ŏŏ Óó Œœ Ŕŕ Śś Ŧŧ Üü Ūū Úú V̄v̄ Ÿÿ Źź Ξ Φ Ϙ Ϻ