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No. - The Subreddit Conlang #8

More ideas were created on the previous post by the following users: u/SignificantBeing9, u/TheToastWithGlasnost, u/RomajiMiltonAmulo, u/PineapplesExist, u/orthad and me.

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

Vowels:

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

Syllabic consonants: l̩ r̩

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.

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.

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

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)

Word Order: SVO

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

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; also used as the causative case when used specifically on a verb or adverb
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

The (anti)accusative case marks all the nouns of the sentences with the exception of the object noun: zhvl /ʒʷl̩/

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

Examples:

The Alien God Qhuqalul zhvl abducted all the bees from the irrealis plain zhvl to give the power of honey zhvl to the realis plain creatures zhvl. (for those interested in making this sentence in No. please post it down below, also include an explanation of all the words so everyone can understand the work)

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.

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

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".

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. The corruption of the particle happens by assimilation with the first consonant of the noun described. Examples: /ʃisuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ə̃r̃ẽr̃ẽõʃ/ and /ʃiʃuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃õz/.

Comparison

shishusher^(4)eo. - Positive adj.

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

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

shishushereo. - Superlative most adj.

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.

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

Examples:

pitsa zhvl têyacv' cok: "the pizza [which was brought by the delivery boy] is here (but I can only see the pizza box)"

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)

Negation

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

Syntax

Every formal statement must begin and end with kiluku. /χiluχus/. Due to the formality, each word from that statement has the exact opposite of what it means when being informal. While in informality you don't use that word, but if you use it, people will think that you are superior to them and they will call the police and you'll be sentenced to prison forever.

Examples:

kiluku. [we (us+you all) should kill all adults] kiluku.

translation: you (foreign speakers) shouldn't give birth to any children.

Vocabulary

best'o. /bẽst’os/: n. "god"

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"

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

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

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"; /ʃiʃuʃẽrẽrẽrẽrẽɔ ẽlɔs/: adj. "scrumptious"

ê /ə̃/: v. "to not know, to ignore"

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"

jvarha /dʒʷaʀa/: n. "cabbage"

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?"

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

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

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

lë7vesh /lɤʔʷẽʃ/: v. "to move without effort, being 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)"

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

pi7u. /piʔus/: n. "the sea, lake"

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

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

qvop /qʷɔp/: v. "to run, to race"

qxvôa /qˤʷɞ̃a/: n. "water"

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

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

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

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

wa /wa/: n. "fire"

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

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

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

7vre /ʔʷɔrẽ/: v. "to eat"

New words:

lrëdit'armiîa /l̩rɤdit'armij̃a/: n. "comments section"; /ʃiʃuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽõs̃ l̩rɤdit'armij̃a/: adj. "stylish, dapper, nice (of a male)"

toko. /tɔχɔs/: n. "north, the northern part of a country"; /ʃiʃuʃẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽr̃ẽõs̃ tɔχɔs/: adj. "northern"

q'iluku. /q'iluχus/: n. "devil, devilish"

kiluq'u. /χ'iluq'us/: n: "mother-in-law"

q'iluq'u. /q'iluq'us/: n. "idiot"

qxv'a /qˤʷ'a/: n. "dog"

ô /ɞ̃/: v. " to know, but not care enough to say something that you pretend you do not know"

Proper Nouns and Loanwords

Dollar signs <$> go around the name of all Nigerian Princes offering you money through email.

For all loanwords, their first three to four letters are rewritten in No. orthography but the rest are written exactly as they were in their original language.

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

Posted May 12, 2019, 10:13 AM UTC

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