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Modern Palethian aniogeriu [aɲogeˈri̯u] > Miwonša anjokiro [aɲɔ'kʲirɔ]

OK, since no one seems to care anyway, I decided to post some results. All in all, verbs can have up to seven slots in which you can place morphemes. Most morphemes, whether they are stems or affixes, can only go into one single slot. S7-S6=S5<S4>-S3-S2-S1-(S0) (I know that the presence of some null...

Some helpful vocabulary:

kwoníwa = come
maškíwa = go
mi = I
ši = you
woi/wai/sja = he/she/it
miká = we
šiká = you (pl)
woiká/waiká/sjaká = they (pl. of he/she/it)
kwa = to be

Hi there... Recently I created a big table just for myself to take an overview of how many verb forms each Miwonšan verb has. After spending so much time with it, I thought I should post it here as well: :) maziwa = to create http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/9817/miwonsaverbtable.png Here are some...

Hello people... I need to find names for two cases. Let's imagine that my conlang has a nominative case and an accusative case and that sentences with a transitive verb have this structure: NP NOM VP(V NP ACC ) Now, when we nominalize transitive verbs in Indo-European languages, subject and object N...

Any suggestions how I could romanize this without using (many) diacritics or letter combinations that contain more than three letters?

Duras tsuhiiseya [tsɨçiːse↑ja] > Miwonša: tihiseya (tɕiɕisɛja)

WeepingElf wrote:

Feles wrote:And /z/ > /l/?

If /ð/ can become /l/, why not /z/?

I was <=> ich war
periculoso <=> peligroso

Is this a universial that languages with ejectives tend to have glottal stops? But even if yes, it would still be easy to explain the lack of /ʔ/ by stating that Proto-Miwonšan /ʔ/ merged with another phoneme, for example /k/ or that it simply disappeared... The loss of /ʔ/ could also account for th...

BTW I'm planning to make a whole language family basing on Miwonša... maybe you have some suggestions for sound changes

Thank you very much for your comment, but I think that's rather a question of personal tase. I prefer using digraphs with <h>, as apostophes always give me the impression that they divide words into morphemes or that they indicate abbreviations like in English. And since aspiration is no distinctive...

Miwonša http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120512124704/conlang/images/thumb/1/11/Phonology-miwon%C5%A1a2012.png/708px-Phonology-miwon%C5%A1a2012.png Well, my conlang does not the biggest consonant inventory, but I think ejectives, tons of nasal vowels and many, many sibilants are one of the mo...

My nickname might have already given you a hint, but I have to admit that my native language is German, so I'm a little shocked about your impressions as I'm very sure that my phonology is not German at all. You can find details about the phonology here: http://conlang.wikia.com/wiki/Miwonsa I think...

OK I can understand why it could have reminded you of Korean, but German? What's so German in Miwonša?

Thank you very much, well, my opinion is that everyone has different ideas about what is pretty... but you're absolutely right - it was not my aim at all to create an extremely complex phonology (I would get pretty frustrated if I had to devote so much time on a conlang of which I can't pronounce tw...

Hey people, http://vocaroo.com/i/s0hqB1YMsQAd Today I've made a little recording. For the moment I won't publish any text or my phonology so that you can listen to it without being biased (which won't be possible anyway in case you've already read the Miwonša thread ;) ). You would really do me a gr...

OK, this is my consonant inventory: p b - t d - c ɟ - k g m̻p mb - n̻t nd - ɲ̻c ɲɟ - ŋ̻k ŋg m m̻ - n n̻ - ɲ ɲ̻ - ŋ ŋ̻ f v - s z w - l - j - ʀ n| n̥ǀ - ɳǃ ɳ̥! Orthography: p b mp mb - t d nt nd - c j nc nj - k g ŋk ŋg m mh - n nh - gn kn - ŋ ŋh f v - s z w - l - j - r x xh - q qh Now my question: I'm...

Once I wanted to create a Germlang based on Modern High German, but with a third consonant sound shift, ejectives and tones...

Looks like a SAE conlang to me, probably mostly because of the phonotactics. It doesn't look like a European lang per se, but SAE conlangs don't necessarily need to; zompist's langs don't, and most of them are SAE as hell. OK, let's check (green = true, red = false, blue = partly yes, partly no) ;)...

Thanks for the information:

http://conlang.wikia.com/wiki/Miwonsa

Miwonša sounds a bit as if a Navajo tried to speak Polish, I think... or maybe a Russian Quechua?

As many languages, especially our conlangs, have different morphological and syntactic ways to express comparatives and superlatives, I'd like to know whether there is a special term to refer to the elements of a comparison. Let me give you an example: "John is older than Peter." In English, it is c...

I proudly present my first conlang lesson. It is really easy and at the end you'll even find some exercises. Would be happy if someone tried out the exercises, maybe you'll even find some inspirations for your own conlangs

http://miwonsa.wikia.com/wiki/Lesson_1

... (not up to date anymore)

Wow, I really had to read your answer three times to understand it completely, but that was really helpful. In fact, Miwonša distinguishes between adjectives and adverbs, as only adjectives have declensions, whereas adverbs don't. Furthermore, there are no predicative adjectives, but adjectival verb...

By the way, I have a question about my participles... Somehow I got the impression these are rather converbs - at least in the first sentence - what do you think? ;) Swankai čwonišan š , nanšwimanča siwai. newspaper-ACC.SG read-2SG-NINF-X, drink-1SG-NINF-PAST-IMPRF water-ACC.SG. While you were readi...