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So, I've been lurking around here for a while and I've finally gotten around to doing some actual conlanging so I'm going to do stuff with my hopefully not too KSL firstlang here (Although I'm not sure if the endonym is long enough ).
So anyway, here's the Phonology
There are six vowels
Represented as following:
/ɑ ɛ e i o u/ <a e é i o u>
Represented as following:
/p b t d k g m n s z ʃ ʒ r ts dz tʃ dʒ l/ <p b t d k g m n s z sh zh r ts dz ch j l>
Stress and other things about syllables.
Stress is applied on the penult if the last syllable is an open syllable. Otherwise, stress is applied on the final syllable.
Rising diphtongs such as /ia/ and /ua/ gain hiatus following a liquid. Compare ankankuaphilosopher (lit. thinker) [ɑnˈkɑn.ku̯ɑ] and poluafish [poˈlu.a].
A bit of phonotactics
(C)(H)V(H)(C)
HVH is pretty rare. CHVHC is unheard of. (H is a glide)
Next up is stuff. I'm not sure if it'll be syntax or morphology.
Last edited by Wqtraz on Mon Mar 10, 2014 4:24 pm, edited 4 times in total.
Who stole /s/ and /z/? With all those other sibilants, one would expect them to be there.
...brought to you by the Weeping Elf Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A
I see the problem of not having /s/ or /z/, it's a sort of gap between the fricatives and affricates as well. Lemme edit that real quick.
The absence of /m/ also sort of annoyed me after I tried forming some words, doesn't sound right without it.
The H is a medial vowel, between the onset and the nucleus or between the nucleus and the coda, mostly because the syllables can only be monophtongs, diphthongs and triphthongs.
The allophones are complimentary for each other, although I don't know how well this works in natlangs.
(edit: I might also end up replacing /ʀ/ with /ɣ/ or /r/)
Solarius wrote:Having /ʀ/ in a smallish inventory isn't that weird, IMO- it's attested in Portuguese.
Yeah, /ʀ/ is fine. Attested in dialects of Portuguese, French, and Dutch, none of which have particularly large consonant inventories.
Also, I don't really get what cromulant's talking about. The language's consonant inventory isn't notably small. It's more or less average-sized, I think.
[ʈʂʰɤŋtɕjɑŋ], or whatever you can comfortably pronounce that's close to that
Formerly known as Primordial Soup
Supporter of use of [ȶ ȡ ȵ ȴ] in transcription
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a 青.
Chengjiang wrote:Also, I don't really get what cromulant's talking about. The language's consonant inventory isn't notably small. It's more or less average-sized, I think.
The inventory I was commenting on almost a month and four OP edits ago probably had 1516 consonants, which is a moderately small (i.e. smallish) amount.
cromulant wrote:The inventory I was commenting on almost a month and four OP edits ago probably had 1516 consonants, which is a moderately small (i.e. smallish) amount.
Ah, OK.
[ʈʂʰɤŋtɕjɑŋ], or whatever you can comfortably pronounce that's close to that
Formerly known as Primordial Soup
Supporter of use of [ȶ ȡ ȵ ȴ] in transcription
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a 青.
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