No. - The Subreddit Conlang #5

More ideas were created on the previous post by the following users: u/st-T_T, u/Neocoustic, u/CrosisBH, u/orthad, u/TheToastWithGlasnost, u/jarne77, u/SpinachMaid and me.

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Phonology (not definite and orthography needed)

Consonants:

	Labial	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Uvular	Glottal
Plosive	p b p'	t d t'		q qʷ qˤ qˤʷ q' qʷ' qˤ' qˤʷ'	ʔ ʔʷ ʔˤ
Affricate		tp db	tʃ tʃʷ tʃ' tʃʷ' dʒ dʒʷ	qχ'
Fricative	f	s z	ʃ ʃʷ ʒ ʒʷ	χ χʷ χˤ χˤʷ ʁ ʁʷ ʁˤ ʁˤʷ
Nasal	m	n
Approximant	w w̃	l	j j̃
Trill	ʙ͡r͜ʀ	r		ʀ

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Vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	ẽ	ə̃ ɞ̃	ɤ ɔ õ
Open		a

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Orthography (already definite)

/ɔ õ/ are both written <o>

/s/ when fulfilling the purpose of noun ending is written as a dot (-os <o.> and -us<u.>)

adjective particle is written as <shishusher^(4)eo.>

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Phonotactics (more stuff?)

Nasal harmony: Nasality spreads after a nasal vowel/consonant to all parts of a word until it reaches a plosive or an affricate.

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Syllable Structure (not definite)

(C)V(C)

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Morphology

Analytical language (complete ergative-accusative alignment) (isolating polysynthetic morphology) (quirky subject) (this could be possible with particles. please explain the concept better if you agree with this)

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Word Order: SVO

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Nouns

Nouns can only end in: -a, -ɔs, -us, -um. there's no grammatical meaning to the endings. To create nouns one of this endings must be applied to the root, without the endings the word is nonsense.

Rules for determining the noun endings, if the penultimate syllable ends in a consonant:

1-) If the penultimate syllable (including the ending) has /i/ or /u/, it has to end with -us;

2-) If the penultimate syllable has /ẽ/, /õ/ or /ɔ/, it has to end with -ɔs;

3-) If the penultimate syllable has /ə̃/, it has to end with -um;

4-) If the penultimate syllable has /a/ or any other vowels that may later be added, it has to end with -a.

If the penultimate syllable ends with a vowel, then the endings can be attached or just reduced. Example: pa-, pə̃-, pẽ-, po-, põ-, pi-, pu- becomes: pa, pə̃um, pẽos, pos, põos, pius, pus

Noun Cases (maybe???)

A massive array of locatives (something like Tsez), and maybe case expressed through clitics (plz if you agree with this idea give some examples or develop it)

• fɞ̃n "-is to the upper right of, -is under (causing it to do something unintended)"

A vocative case, but it can only be used on verbs and adverbs.

sa fulfils the function of "er" in English when it's used on a verb ("butcher, baker"). (if you know the linguistic term plz tell)

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Adjectives

Adjectives are created by prepending [ʃiʃuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽõs̃] to an unrelated noun.

Examples: blue = [ʃiʃuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽõs̃] + "cabbage"

spherical = [ʃiʃuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽõs̃] + "curtain"

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Pronouns

Salient/Obviative distinction on the third person.

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Possessives and Possession

You need to specify how you obtained it (you stole it, got it, bought it, found it (also specify where), chopped it (for trees and such), you made someone else do one of the things above for you. Etc.

-A godlike person, a spirit or the world gave it to you (also used for when a pizza delivery man brings you a pizza)

-You made it out of something else you owned (you, of course, also have to specify how you got the thing you made it out of)

-You borrowed it

-You steal-borrowed it (without asking)

-You exchanged it with something else

-You took it from someone (you think it is allowed)

- It was a special gift

- Someone threw or shot it at you so now it's yours

- You confiscated it because you felt like the person deserved it

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Verbs

- future participle (an action that you will do for certain, but it hasn't happened yet)

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Negation

Particle os negation: ə̃. Also used to turn a root in its antonym.

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Vocabulary

/jaqˤʷ'ɔbɔs/ [jaqˤʷ'ɔbɔs]: "cellar door, death, hell"

/bɤbɤnə̃li/ [bɤbɤnə̃l̃ĩ]: "to ride a bicycle, vespa or small non-car vehicle such that you traverse a whole neighbourhood or town, like a paperboy"

/dʒʷaʀas/ [dʒʷaʀas]: "cabbage"

/pifulus/ [pifulus]: "curtain, carpet, dress"

/ʙ͡r͜ʀinius/ [ʙ͡r͜ʀinĩũs]: "tickets (for a bus or flight), high explosives"

/ə̃/ [ə̃]: "to not know, to ignore"

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What other stuff do you want to see on this conlang? Crazy ideas are welcome. Hope you to enjoy it.