Zompist Bboard Again

sotonaken kaza?
ANP-1s-NOBJ where
Where can I do that?

Now would'ja look at that Consonants Nasal /m n ŋ/ Stop /p m b t n d k ŋ g ʔ/ Affricate /t͡θ̺ n d͡ð̺ t͡s n d͡z/ Fricative /f s/ Resonant /ɾ w/ Vowels High /i u/ Mid-high /e o/ Mid-low /ɛ ɔ/ Low /a/ Syllable Structure (C)V C: a consonant V: a vowel Allophony Non-back vowels other than [a], i.e. [i e ...

ÜberBen wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:22 pm Oh, and for all those who are interested, I made the sample sentences with Zompist's gen and ran them through the allophony changes manually.

ah, that makes sense. i was wondering where all my "sample sentences" were.

Damn look at dem vowels Consonants Nasal /m n/ Stop /p b t d k g k͡p g͡b/ Fricative /ɸ β s z xʷ h/ Trill /r/ Approximant /l ʟ w/ Vowels High /u/ Mid-low /ʌ ʌ̃ ɔ ɔ̃/ Syllable structure (C1)V(R)(C2)(C3) C1: a consonant V: a vowel R: a sonorant other than /h/; i.e. one of /m n r l w ʟ/ C2: one of /m n ...

affix order -- big formality issue for one of my languages. or the tiny, minor rules about adverbs and conditionals

cafau'uku khomon? onyusaken ma iŋtanu
diacritic-PL which / be-3p-NOBJ VIS beautiful
Which diacritics? They look fine to me.

or for each form/prefix/suffix, discusses formation, allomorphs et al. and immediately goes into usage for that particular form - which I've seen plenty of scholarly reference grammars do? this could just be an enormous chapter titled "morphosyntax." I'd say it's a bit more reader friendl...

i feel like the translations take longer to make than the actual music