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akamchinjir wrote: ↑Fri Sep 28, 2018 11:39 am Next: jakikwai [ˌja.keˈkwai̯], clan hall

yagwigwai /jæg^wɪg^wai/ offering shrine

next: gwaaboon solid ground, floor

looks good!

evmdbm wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 6:19 am next: to understand.

eskabaskan: shuhahuchuk to know, understand, realize

next: enterprise

this is the most painful word i have ever analyzed
[skɹ̩^ʕɫ̩ː^ʕz]

Nice Mohawk knockoff Consonants /n/ /tʰ t d kʰ k g ʔ/ /s z x ɣ h/ /l j w/ vowels /i u/ /a a-rhotic/ syllable structure (C1)V(C2) C1: a consonant V: a vowel C2: one of /n tʰ t kʰ k ʔ s x h l j w/ allophony Nasals [n] persistently become non-retroflexed unrounded non-bilabial non-alveolar velar nasals...

Akangka wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:17 pm Where is the vowel?

there are no vowels.

Akangka wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 9:17 pm Also why you analyze the geminated consonant as separate consonant?

i'm not sure what you mean by this

more noun phrase order adjectives always precede nouns, except in the intellectual aspect wherein they must both precede and follow the noun. that should be the closest word to the noun. after that, prepositions must follow and precede the noun and must suffix and prefix onto the noun possessives p...

ok i don't know if this will be helpful since i'm having trouble following this conversation, but according to wikipedia, monogolian has a single uvular consonant /ɢ/

Dē Graut Bʉr wrote: ↑Wed Sep 26, 2018 10:43 am When I saw the word for "million", I first read "misdaad", which means "crime" in Dutch. Is it a criminal number?

nope, just a coincidence. but then again, monopoly cheater's edition exists...

number system eskaskan uses a base-8 system. the number system is very simple; you say the number of ones, then the “tens” (in this case, eights), then the “hundreds,” etc. e.g seven, one “ten,” three “hundreds” 207 numbers 1 izh 2 moozh 3 niish 4 sech 5 kwį 6 kwįzh 7 kwįįsh 10 kwech hundred wech t...

wow, pretty big, i like big phonologies. lot of plosives though. personally i’d add a /ts/ and maybe cut down on the uvular contrasts. i like your vowel system, but im curious as to why you went all-out with the diacritics instead of just writing the vowel twice (not that that’s a bad thing). lookin...

more morphosyntax more on the derivation system various anaphora exist which can exist as nouns, incorporated nouns and obliques. these can range from extremely general nouns-- e.g. thing -- to specific descriptions with considerable detail-- e.g. long, thin, flexible object . anaphora can be deriv...

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syntax word order word order comes in many shapes and sizes standard sentences are in OSV order if you're playing poker sentences must be in VSO order or else you will look like a hustler if you are mad the sentence must gradually decrease in volume (marked at the beginning of the sentence with a &...

Also have you worked out what your verb template is yet? yes, you can see it in the post titled morphosyntax Caus that's gonna affect how your applicatives work, because if it's anything like Athabaskan and Eskimo you're basically only gonna be allowed two arguments marked per verb, which limits ho...

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morphology nouns nouns have 29 cases ablative: -h-h-ú accusative: -h-h-ss addessive: -ccccc adupessive: -p allative: -swswswsw aversive: -hh benefactive: -fú causal: -ūū comitative: -qqcq dative: -qqcc delative: -tt-tk elative: -x equative: -u-u essive: -u-ū-u genitive: -!!!!!! illative: -ss-ss-ss-...

hello everyone this is my jokelang "phonology" consonants ʘ ǀ ǁ ! ǂ ʞ < b c x ! y g > pʰ pʰ : p' tʰ tʰ : t' kʰ kʰ : k' qʰ qh : < p pp p' t tt t' k kk k' q qq > ɸ ɸ: θ θ: s s: ɬ ɬ: ʃ ʃ: x x: voiceless uvular fricative voiceless uvular fricative: h h: < f ff θ θθ s ss ł łł š šš j jj x̌ x̌x̌ ...