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La ti nimyeke. 1SG 3SG.F love-PV I loved/had loved/had loved her. Paletian does screwy stuff with aspects, so that in this case this is unambiguously past and perfective, but if we switch to negative we have to use the irrealis "aspect" and the verb could litterally be in any time and aspect and we...

Plains /ɭɑʈ'o/ Lakushan rāṭyau [ˈɭɑːʈjo] Romian lacjó [ˈlatɕjo]
Plains /ɭɑʈ'uɳ/ Lakushan rāṭyūṇ [ˈɭɑːʈjuɳ] Romian lacjun [ˈlatɕjun]
Plains /ɭɑʈʂoɳ/ Lakushan rāṭṣauṇ [ˈɭɑːʈʂoɳ] Romian lacon [ˈlatɕɔn]

Deal with my half-IPA-half-X-SAMPA. V'eng cazag [tʃadʒaɰ] :> Zamétule [tʃaˈdʒa] :> Paletan tyadya [tɕædʑæ] :> Eltian txadj [tʃɑdʒ] Voangh soidoigoa [siədiəgə] :> Zamétule [siˈdig] :> Paletan sidi [ɕidʑi] :> Eltian siddeg [ˈsɪdəg] Vynyi shyajya [ɕjadʑja] :> Zamétule [ʃjaˈdʒja] :> Paletan syadya [ɕæd...

Zan scratchpad bye rya tumi, no no posyoze utyo pi lo syu rota ge sa ito. [zaŋ səkəɹatɕəpadə bʲe ɹʲa tumi | no no poɕoze utɕo pi lo ɕu ɹota ge sa ito] That scratchpad is a good idea, it would let people learn more about your language and give you advice. La bezi tume sye nyeko pi TC dyoze ponyaryen...

Lo se gi rotyoze? What do people talk about? A, te mivene komuko. Ni nyesyeke fye po feso disai, ge boga no dyeke goso pukeli li taza. Ah, they talk about the weather. We had snow above freezing yesterday, and today it was actually pretty warm. La rise satunya. I want the spring. La tume sye lai ro...

Dize bye lai imyu.
[dʑi.ze bje la.i i.mju]
The world is my country.

To aisi bye lai sirye.
[to a.i.ɕi bje la.i si.ɹje]
All humankind is my siblings.

Ge figo rya bye lai ten.
[ge fi.go ɹja bje la.i teŋ]
And to do good is my religion.

(Need more interesting allophonyyyyy.)

Click wrote:Is unconditional PN → ⁿP plausible?

P and N is shorthand for plosive and nasal, and ⁿ is prenasalisation.

I've been dealing with the same thing for Niljavo. I think it is, but one might expect differences if you have multiple plosive series.

Thry wrote:Λο σιλησσίο κερ η βως όμνες έστες βήροι κηδήντες.
Lo silissio cer i vos omnes estes viry cidintes.
Silence indicates you all are true believes.

Ue, ga la beme daliso lai va pitio napeu.
Welp, now I have to give up my mostly secular life.

Mecongai enphensa [ɛ̃ˈpʰɛ̃.sɑ] > Zamétule empensa [ɛ̃pɛ̃ˈsa] > Proto-Maroinulic [eepéesa] > Niljavo ēpēs [ipis]

Ufedua! Tai pi satiji sie no tiori sopako!
Nonsense! There are more gods than one can count!

Sebui e Iseraeu, Sata bie nie Sati, Sata bie Kua.
Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.

Fita eu lai dije diajesa diojui.
Prayer from my conworld to come.

La ga rise fisio tumadilieji mi sagauji uatomovo mi guedia mai hangun rua lai rotuadi diajedi (rosie la nime viko romau biuji hadu li iliatua). No iru okui, ko jano ki la batui. I've always wanted to make ideographs or syllabic characters or something like Hangeul for my conlangs (because I love se...

Hoto fuomaledui!
Devil be praised!

No temai nieke jonali, teto jimai ki tedui li tyga kuirivo. No hile do goso kunibieme de la sie la tume sie no tiori do tajahi.
It certainly has vowels, they just don't exist at the phonemic level. It feels intuitive enough to me that it could be realistic.

Your post gave me an idea: storing the lexicon as a plain text file using markdown syntax, and using the text editor's regular expression search function for searching and to generate specific lists (eg all verbs), which could then be converted to pdf quickly (eg by pandoc). I'll confess to not ent...

I was working on a language a long time ago that was pretty much just Luganda with different words and a slightly different phonology. Other than that, I probably don't have much stereotypical "African-ness" in my conlangs.

I use html for my lexicon because I feel like it gives the nicest results, is easy to make pdfs from, and is easy to search. The major drawback is that it takes a lot of typing just to add one entry, even when I define my own tags for stuff. I'm not actually sure if I recommend it, but it works for ...

Talemai ki, ko kua eu jeno kinosi le sa raiditavo (sanua jano ki dui goso ria rua vonodo bu). No bie lai rotua su na jonali kuirivo.
I'm afraid not, but one of its descendants is triconsonantal (though that one isn't good enough to share yet). It's my new language without phonemic vowels.

Chipasic: viviya /ʋi.ʋi.ja/ [ʋy.ʋy.jæ] Zamétule vuvujai [vyvyˈʒɛ] Proto-Maroinulic [wiwijée] Niljavo (Neljěvo) vivjē (vevji) [vewʒi]

nm tlk-sp h mhk-l tly 'wl sk-hlt btqh-hlt 'yt-sp kwllhtyb -w bw tt-w pyk nh dwlk-h 'hnnwmhq Nem telksep he makl teli 'ul sekalt betqahelt 'itsep kulelatibu bu tetu pik na dulka 'annumaq. I am currently engaged in a fierce battle to make the Annumahan languages' correlatives and similar words suck l...

To be a bit more uplifting than Hallow, I would say that you don't necessarily need to give up on making a naturalistic non-concatenative language, but you should save it until you've had more experience with diachronics. It took me years of conlanging to understand language evolution well enough to...

(I'm remember kanji a lot easier when I do this, interestingly enough) pds nh khnsy -wy wp th-m (wh) n-qn hdl-wy wp bqs-m th' (wh) 'wl phlyt-k Peds na kansyuy wep tam (wa) neqn hedluy wep beqsem ta' (wa) 'ul palitek. [pɛdz nɑ ˈkɑnzjuj wɛp tɑm (wɑ) nɛqn ˈhɛdluj wɛp ˈbɛqsɛm tɑʔ (wɑ) ʔul ˈpɑlitɛk] maj...

I was thinking of an epenthesis where every consonant is followed by a vowel but certain vowels are ellided and then the sequences [Vw Vj Vh] become [u i ɑ] (except when adjacent to other /w j h/) and other remaining vowels become [ɛ]: wywh > wVyVwVhV > wVywVh > wiwɑ but twwnt > tVwVwVnVtV > twVwnt ...

Arrakum wiwa [wiˈwa] :> Unnamed Protolanguage wywh [ˈwiwɑ] :> Rākūṣar wīwā [ˈwiːwa] :> Ladasy viva [ˈvʲivə] I revived an old concept I had for a language with no phonemic vowels and am enjoying the challenge of working it in to be the parent of the parent of a major language family in my conworld.

Jano sá no o sa pone, Thry?
That's what you like, Thry?

Thai/Lao doesn't allow open syllables with short nuclei and adds a glottal stop.