No. - The Subreddit Conlang #7

More ideas were created on the previous post by the following users: u/orthad, u/TheToastWithGlasnost, u/your_inner_feelings, u/st-T_T, u/RomajiMiltonAmulo, u/jarne77, u/Ah-SoThatsHowItsDone, u/anidnmeno, u/PineapplesExist, u/Mirabeau1 and me.

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Phonology (not definite) (creaky nasals as allophones?)

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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Syllabic consonants: l̩ r̩

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Orthography

p b p' t d t' q qʷ qˤ qˤʷ q' qʷ' qˤ' qˤʷ' ʔ ʔʷ ʔˤ ---- p b p' t d t' q qv qx qxv q' qv' qx' qxv' 7 7v 7x

tp db tʃ tʃʷ tʃ' tʃʷ' dʒ dʒʷ qχ' ---- th dh c cv c' cv' j jv qh

f s z ʃ ʃʷ ʒ ʒʷ χ χʷ χˤ χˤʷ ʁ ʁʷ ʁˤ ʁˤʷ ---- f s z sh shv zh zhv k kv kx kxv g gv gx gxv

m n ---- m n

w w̃ l j j̃ ---- w û l y î

ʙ͡r͜ʀ r ʀ ---- bh r rh

i u ẽ ə̃ ɞ̃ ɤ {ɔ õ} a l̩ r̩ ----- i u e ê ô ë o a l r

/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.>

When /ə̃/ is used as a particle, it must always be written as capital digraph <ÊÊ>. It always comes after the words it modifies.

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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

(C)V(S)(L)(F)(P)

C - consonant; V - vowel; S - y, î, w, û (causing diphthongs?); L - l, r, m, n; F - fricatives; P - plosives, affricates

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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:

• If the penultimate syllable (including the ending) has /i/ or /u/, it has to end with -us;
• If the penultimate syllable has /ẽ/, /õ/ or /ɔ/, it has to end with -ɔs;
• If the penultimate syllable has /ə̃/, it has to end with -um;
• If the penultimate syllable has /a/ or any other vowels that may later be added (ɞ̃ ɤ), 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

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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)

• Erectosuperessive: χˤɤʀ = on top of (standing)
• Cubantosuperessive: siʀ = on top of (laying)
• Quaerendative: tʃɔχ = you think or know it is somewhere around or in ... but you can't see it
• Inessive: inmi = in
• Volative: aʀfɞ̃ = somewhere in the air without touching anything else
• Fossative: rant' = burried in the ground
• Subessive: ɔnt = under
• Superaquative: siʀwa = on water
• Subaquative: ɔntwa = in/under water
• Extrative: qχ'uʔẽ = out (if used with the word: disfɔ = nature, it means outside)
• Sinistrive: lẽft' = left of (there is no word for next to, so you have to specify if it's left or right of ...)
• Dextrative: ʀuχʷt = right of (there is no word for next to, so you have to specify if it's left or right of ...)
• Dextravolative: fɞ̃n = to the upper right of
• Subinvolative: õtaʁ = under (causing it to do something unintended)

wer7 /wẽr?/ = it’s basically everywhere: you can’t tell where it is. it is just everywhere around you (used for words like: qas (air), bẽst’ (god, I), ə̃talfp (dead))

7elp' /ʔẽlp'/ = standing or sitting so close to someone/something that it is awkward, there is sexual tension or it looks weird (first two meanings used for persons and animals the third for objects)

terhf /tẽʀf/ = you don’t care where the fuck it is. You just hope you never see it again and it will: burn in hell, die, get destroyed, break or whatever bad fucking thing can happen to a person or thing.

kva[…]rant' /χʷa[…]rant'/ = the ground that [pronoun] is standing on

An accusative case, but it marks the subject of the verb so you know what isn't the object: zhvl /ʒʷl̩/

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

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Partikel-aufnahme: a process by which a related noun phrase (e.g. indicating possession) takes on the case of the main noun in addition to the case indicating the relation (e. g. Genitive). a better explanation: Suffixaufnahme.

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sa fulfils the function of "er" in English when it's used on a verb (agent nouns)

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Reduplication (Partial reduplication at the last syllable?) (use both concepts or just one?)

Should be used to indicate the size, plurality or intensity of a noun, and it is up to context to indicate what you mean. Also there are three degrees of reduplication.

Wa means "fire", so wawa can mean either "slightly big fire", "two fires", or "slightly hot fire."Wawawa, of course means "medium fire", "three fires", or "slightly hotter fire."Wawawawa is as many reduplications as possible, meaning "large fire", "four fires", or "intense fire."

Another thing that could be added is the concept of inherent unit. Qxvôa means "water", and the inherent unit for the word "water" is "drop". then qxvôa means "one drop", qxvôaqxvôa means "two drops", qxvôaqxvôaqxvôa means "three drops", etc.

you can use classifiers to change the unit to bigger quantities to have words such as "waterfall", "rain", "river" as any other word associated with "water".

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Adjectives (what should the corrupted pronunciation of the adjective particle be?)

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

Examples: blue = [ʃiʃuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽõs̃] + "cabbage"

spherical = [ʃiʃuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽõs̃] + "curtain"

Corrupted adjectives, that instead of ending with the normal ending, end with a mispronunciation, and by making it corrupted the adjective has a completely unrelated meaning to both the uncorrupted adjective particle, and the root noun

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Comparison

shishusher^(4)eo. - Positive adj.

shishusher^(3)eo. - Equative as adj.

shishusher^(2) eo. - Comparative more adj.

shishushereo. - Superlative most adj.

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Pronouns

bẽst’ -> first person singular pronoun (for when you feel like you're better than the person you're talking to)

ʔʷ -> first person inclusive pronoun;

lɤlp -> exclusive first person plural (us);

-> first person singular + second person singular (me and you)

-> first person singular + second person plural (me and you all)

-> first person plural + second person singular (us and you)

-> first person plural + second person plural (us and you all)

-> second person No. speaker

-> second person foreign language speaker (No. ê speaker)

ʔi -> salient third person pronoun;

ʃi -> obviative third person pronoun.

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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.

tɤjatʃʷ' -> 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

- the perfective of each verb is the verb but backwards

- 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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Syntax

Every statement must begin and end with /χiluχus/

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Vocabulary

yaqxv'obo. /jaqˤʷ'ɔbɔs/: n. "cellar door, death, hell"

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

jvarha /dʒʷaʀa/: n. "cabbage"

pifulu. /pifulus/: n. "curtain, carpet, dress"

bhiniu. /ʙ͡r͜ʀinius/: n. "tickets (for a bus or flight), high explosives"

ê /ə̃/: v. "to not know, to ignore"

lë7vesh /lɤʔʷẽʃ/: v. "to move without effort, beeing carried (in a literal sense, but also in a videogame), to get stunned by the beauty of a mountain-goat (which may also carry you in a videogame)"

kikash /χiχaʃ/: v. "to drown while looking for your cat"

kikash ÊÊ /χiχaʃ ə̃/ v. "to act like a selfish twat who won't even look for their cat; what in god's name is wrong with you?"

tapkikash /tapχiχaʃ/: v. "to drown while feeding your cat"

kikashshapkikash /χiχaʃːapχiχaʃ/: v. "to drown while intending to feed your cat (but it got missing :()"

7vëqva /ʔʷɤqʷa/: n. "cat (between 11 and 27 months old, black fur and brown eyes, but could be used affectionally for every cat)"

kikashshapkikashvëqva /χiχaʃːapχiχaʃʷɤqʷa/: n. "an affectional term for people that drowned while searching their lost cat to feed it"

rhirorhi /ʀirõʀi/: v. "to turn or spin in place, to deliberate"

elo. /ẽlɔs/ n. "'poop nuts', a type of tree nut cultivated by the speakers of this language that contains an entire day's nutrition but strongly tastes of faecal material"; /ʃiʃuʃẽrẽrẽrẽrẽɔs ẽlɔs/: adj. "scrumptious"

pi7u. /piʔus/: n. "the sea, lake"

wa /wa/: n. "fire"

7vre /ʔʷɔrẽ/: v. "to eat"

qxvôa /qˤʷɞ̃a/: n. "water"

qa /qa/: n. "air"; /ʃiʃuʃẽrẽrẽrẽrẽɔs qa/: adj. "solid, hard"

qa ÊÊ /qa ə̃/: n. "deadly gas, fart"; /ʃiʃuʃẽrẽrẽrẽrẽɔs qa ə̃/: adj. "cute"

talfpa /talfpa/: n. "live"; /ʃiʃuʃẽrẽrẽrẽrẽɔs talfpa/: adj. "dead"

talfpa ÊÊ /talfpa ə̃/: n. "dead"; /ʃiʃuʃẽrẽrẽrẽrẽɔs talfpa ə̃/: adj. "living, alive"

fudirh /fudiʀ/: v. "to go to a restaurant and eat a hamburger after you took part in a protest to get attention for climate change"

best'o. /bẽst’os/: n. "god"

kiluku. /χiluχus/: n. "hello, goodbye"

qvop /qʷɔp/: v. "to run, to race"

bhiu. /ʙ͡r͜ʀius/: n. "car, car death, onion"

way7emsieyo. /wäj.ʔẽm.si.ẽj.os/: "savior, prophet"

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