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A daughter language now has a grammar!

Honskhardn is the first of several daughter languages to Pretistelen, set about 800-900 years and one major catastrophe after Classical Pretistelen.

What even is this phonology O.O

Is there a reason not to use dots on <i>'s and <j>'s? (Also what is <ȧ>? I can't seem to find it anywhere. Unless the dot is supposed to mark stress?)
I guess it just seems in general you make a few strange orthographical choices.

That said, it does look nice.

It is indeed part of a family. Though it's more of the mother of a family rather than anything. I've only made the vaguest of outlines as to this language's history. It's more designed to be the history than have one.

Brit here, and I don't believe I have ever heard the l pronounced in any of these words, except maybe "balm" I might insert an /l/ there because it's an uncommon word to hear in conversation and overpronouncing it would aid comprehension, but it's not there in my spontaneous pronunciation. I hear s...

How does something like [tʙ] feature into this homorganicism?

I don’t entirely know what you mean by ‘realistic.’ I tried to model it after the English vowel system, just variants on a, e, I, o, and u. You mean the English alphabet vowels, or the English phonological vowels? Because the two are very different. This is a really good summary of the vowel system...

3. Plosives The main issue here is /g/ and /ɉ/. As this will show, if a language is missing any plosives in the back (where /g/ hangs out), generally the one it'll be missing is /g/, rather than /k/. Personallly, if you're gonna put a palatal plosive in, I'd have put /c/ in over /ɉ/, (or better yet...

I don't know how natural you wanted this to be, or if there's something significant about the speakers that would change significantly how the phonology would manifest. Some points, in no particular order: 1. Vowels Generally, a 5-vowel system will use /i e a o u/. Indeed, often the /i/ and /u/ will...

Yeah, that's fair. Probably it'd be best just to cut out all the "borderline nominal cases" instances -- particularly since WALS fails to specify how many of these borderline cases the languages in question actually have. At least then categorizing a language with no cases as having 1 case makes a l...

So I've heard the accepted wisdom is that, generally, SOV-type languages have lots of cases, while SVO-type languages have few or none. So I did a small study a little while back to see just how true that was. This was the result. The attachment is a visual summary of my findings. Basically, most la...

Uh, hi everyone!

Longtime lurker, now posting that I have something to post.

Grammar

Probably some layout issues -- I wasn't quite sure where to put some stuff.

Uh, thoughts?

Those looking for more details on the briefly mentioned magic system can find it on my blog here.