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Verbal Morphology Verbs in Caascis are mostly fusional. The first inflection is always plurality, which is dependent on root form class. Other inflections are added after that, but these are all almost entirely fusional, often indicating both tense and mood. Each of the ten root classes has a differ...

Morphology: Morphology is key to Caascis, because just about any root can be modified to form a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb. There are ten regular form classes of root in Caascis, grouped together by the way they decline in noun form and the way they conjugate in verb form. Additionally, irregu...

All right, enough introduction. Let’s start with phonology! <t k> <t c> <s z ʃ ʒ h> <s z š ž h> <ǀ ! ǁ> <x q k> <i ɛ ɑ> <i e a> There are ten consonants and three vowels, for a total of thirteen phonemes. In the Roman orthography, I just couldn’t resist writing /k/ as c. *Kaaskis looks very intimida...

Okay, I’m kinda new to the board, and I’m a tiny bit intimidated by how extremely technical and critical this board can sometimes get. (I mean, I was kinda harassed in my introductory post so........ yeah.) On the other hand, I feel like I have a relatively solid background in linguistics, and I’ve ...

Thank you for Caascis.numbers. Could you please tell me for pronounciation some letters: c in ci (as English c in church?), cia (ch + a?), sci (shi?) Caascis has very regular orthography. c = /k/ (I know, I know, I should have used a k, but I will always think c is aesthetically more pleasing than ...

Okay, this is for Caascis. I've actually worked it out fairly far (mostly because numbers interest me - and because I have important numbers in my stories.) It's base seven, as you can probably work out. 1. hi 2. ti 3. ci 4. seci 5. eci 6. teci 7. ha 8. ha ehia 9. ha etia 10. ha ecia 11. ha esecia 1...

next: an adverb(ial phrase) describing that a task was performed poorly. Like, "He swept the floor [....]ly." In Caascis: Atetiae haatisa tiiti [ɑtɛtiˈʔɑʔɛ hɑˈʔɑtisɑ tiˈʔiti] like-adv.v flies.s frog.nom.s "Like a frog flies." Because a frog may jump very high and far, but he's not actually flying. ...