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here's some grammar for Resmus Word order Though Resmus has a number of grammatical cases, there is a preferred word order of Verb-Object-Subject. Bērurr jērps emrēbip Narssisus Love-3-PAST REFL ACC-reflection Narcissus Narcissus loved his own reflection Dependent phrases follow the order Modifier-M...

that's pretty close. just a few vowels and consonants off. but i won't tell which ones

nothing, i just wanted to show only the branches than descended straight from Memeyk for comparison purposes.

just for you, Janko. one through ten in Resmus, Rebe, and Griets: one haːr har hɛːʀ two pəm pəm fam three zdet dɛːt zdʲat four nirm najm dɨ̃rm five ɟeːʔs ʤˠøːsp kʲɛːf six prit prɛt frɨt seven meːrt mjɛːjt mʲɛːrt eight muːd moːn bũːd nine tswek stˠɛːk θʷʲak ten pʉb pyːm fʲub

hey guys. been working on a new language. this one's called Resmus [rəʔs.mʉsː], descended from Memeyk. the phoneme inventory is as follows /aː æː e i ə ʉ oː u/ <a æ e i ə y o u> <e i ə y u> can be lengthened: <ē ī ə̄ ȳ ū> /k p t c g b d ɟ/ <k p t c g b d j> /s ʔs z ɕ ʑ h/ <s ss z ś ź h> /m n/ <m n> ...

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Puthe: jąt, from Rebe jambət

next word: prepare

yeah, i didn't realize the Griets notes had no phonlogy. here you go: stops <k g p b t d c> /k g b p t d c/ fricatives <s z x ğ v þ h> /s z x ɣ β θ h/ nasals <m n> /m n/ trills <r rğ> /r ʀ/ approximant <j> /j/ vowels <a i e ē ə u> /a i e ɛː ɨ u/ * Vowels can be nasalized, taking a tilde. * Consonant...

ok, here's some more cognates for yinz: sleep, gather, wander, laugh, wash, freeze, grind Griets: fɨrzd, xʀʲat, θotwarb, çɛːs, kʀɨθ, zuç, θud Rebe: pajd, krɛːt, totˠajm, xʲɨːs, grɛst, hosk, ston Puthe: paː˥˧t, kɛ˧˥t, tɒ˧˩p, xis, ɛ˧˥t, fɒ˧˥k, stɒn man, woman, fabric, herd, tribe, leather, farmer kʀʲɛ...

piraha has a lateral linguolabal double flap (according to wikipedia), so i don't see why not. it doesn't seem particularly outlandish, if unpronounceable to my English-speaking brain

you are correct about the macrons. the acute accent is rising tone (high to mid), grave is falling (mid to high). as for the additional cognate sets, i shall provide if i have time after work tomorrow

low tone. it appears under the <s> in my browser, but it should be under the <u>

sure, i've got 500+ words for Rebe and Puthe and almost 400 for Griets, so i'll give you a sampling. here's one to ten in Puthe, Rebe, and Griets: ha, pɯm, fjét, nàm, śœ́p, pet, jèt, mon, stok, pum har, pəm, dēt, najm, ĝ̣œ̄sp, pret, mjējt, mōn, sṭēk, pym hērğ, fam, zdjat, dǝ̨rm, kjēf, frǝt, mjērt, b...

and finally, Griets: Griets is an agglutinative language descended from Memeyk. Its word order is usually VSO. Nouns Nouns in Griets have no gender, though they can be given number, and, with the exception of the nominative, must take a prefix for case. nom. - - acc. freb- pafrũ- dat. bãþ- babãþ- in...

here's Rebe short vowels ĕ /ə/ e /ɛ/, /aː/* i /i/, /eː/* o /o/ long vowels a /aː/ ē /ɛː/ y /yː/, /øː/* ō /oː/ * pronunciation before <r> diphthongs aj /aːj/ ĕj /əj/ ej /ɛːj/ yj /øːj/ oj /ɔj/ consonants bilabials p /pʰ/, /p/ b /b̥/ m /m/ w /w/ dentals/coronals t /tʰ/, /t/ d /d̥/ n /n/ s /s/ þ* /θ/, /...

here's the most well developed of the langs from my new confamily, Puthe Phonology Puthe has 14 consonants phonemically: labials /p m f w/ alveolars /t n s/ alveo-palatal /ʃ/ palatals /c ɲ j/ velars /k ŋ/ glottal /h/ appearing in the following series: stops /p t c k/ nasals /m n ɲ ŋ/ fricatives /f s...

Puthe: meğc < West Rebe mʼaget < Memeyk mʼēget < mʼēgi "fiber" + kəjt "to bind, fix"

next word: leverage

òm in New Puthe, ŋormmʼ in Old Puthe. Rebe has ŋomjēm. all originate from the Old Rebe compound gorbjēm (gor "out" + bjēm "mind").

next word: sawmill

Yeah, I'm pretty fond of them too. Maybe a daughter lang that loses the tonality but keeps the clusters

acute is rising (35)
grave is falling (53)
underdot is low (2)
grave + underdot is low falling (31)
accute + underdot is low rising (13)

so i toned down the tones (no pun intended, though very much enjoyed) originally created in Puthe, leaving more room to grow for the tones in the next stage of the language. the result is a fair bit more streamlined, and resembles the original Memeyk, but with tones and nasal vowels. here's Drinking...

There is a lot of information on there, even though the presentation on the website itself is hard to follow, and the author seems to eschew any kind of standard transcriptions for a relatively idiosyncratic system (but one that that is similar to one I have seen Labov used to describe North Americ...

i'm from south central PA myself, and i say [ʌʊ̯]. about 40 minutes to the southeast near Lancaster i know some [ɜʉ̞̯]-speakers.

MrKrov wrote:

citation needed

The bible should be good enough

Japanese has ii "good", which comes from an earlier form yoi which is still used for conjugation, so:

ii "is good"
yokatta "was good"
yonai "is not good"
yonakatta "was not good"

though not sure if that really counts