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Ah, thanks for alerting me to those typos! They are fixed now. The reason there are only voiceless geminates is because they actually descend from an earlier 'fortis' series, which contrasted with the plain voiceless obstruents as well as the voiced ones. In some dialects they were realized as ejec...

I have a bad habit of creating a project and abandoning it. Anyways. Sakha language is a language spoken in a world. In my universe, there is not one, but thousands of worlds. Each one is interconnected and is accessible via the portal. The world is rather small. The biggest world is smaller than in...

Ah, thanks for alerting me to those typos! They are fixed now. The reason there are only voiceless geminates is because they actually descend from an earlier 'fortis' series, which contrasted with the plain voiceless obstruents as well as the voiced ones. In some dialects they were realized as ejec...

Does morphological alternation/apophony count? My language has heavy morphological alternations, from consonant assimilation, consonant harmony, to vowel harmony.

Usually, the applicative is derived from verb meaning to give. Do you have something you can suggest to read about that? It seems plausible, and could certainly explain how one and the same marker can represent both applicatives and causatives, which is supposed to be fairly common, but I mostly re...

Kamu is singular. You may want to use kalian.

Indonesia have word "am", that means "not limited to certain person or race"

Do you know how a telic marker evolved from?

Been thinking of doing a language with verb serialization to indicate lots of functions. Here's an idea: motion verbs 'come' and 'go' grammaticalized as expressions of mediopassive and transitive derivation. For the first thing I feel like English is a good precedent ('it came to be done', 'it beca...

So, in your conculture, there's a tribe that is so afraid of forest, so it uses avoidance language when entering forest. Sounds realis... wait a second, why did you place your culture inside the forest, then? Why even you resort so far to add forest theme to your culture? https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Well, Kabardian, you might like Vertical Vowel System. However, in all other languages that have it, they also have extensive palatalization and/or labialization. However, aside from labiovelar and labiouvular, I don't see anything in your consonant inventory.

Is this sound change realistic?

d > r / V_V
[+plosive]d > [+plosive +voice]r

My language previously doesn't have r. Also, the cluster occurs both word initially and word medially.(The first one is rather obvious, but how about the second.)

Is it more realistic to turn payt͡se > pat͡ʃːe or peːtse instead? Sorry, that was a typo: I meant pajt͡se > pajːe. That's not what I meant. I mean, Is it more realistic to turn pajt͡se > pat͡ʃːe or peːtse instead? Also, never in my mind this change is good: hat.su > hat.tu. It's more likely to turn...

consonants next to each other turn into geminates (e.g. inkɨ > inːɨ) I'm not sure what you mean by this. If anything, this seems too extensive - it applies to all consonants next to each other! I mean your description is not extensive enough. What does the consonant collapse enough. Mistyping. I me...

ej > i / _# i > ɨ / j_ or _j æj ej > i ɨj /_# sounds strange to me. I think they should both collapse into /i/ Does this matter as much though? There's plenty of examples of sets of perfectly sane changes which do weird things together. Now that you say that, you're probably right. and I'm probably...

Thank you. In my conlang, noun is declined into free singular, free plural, bound, and copular. And if the noun is declined as copular, it can then receive verbal affixes. Example: fkhød (girl) = a-fkhør-és (3SG-girl-be) (she is a girl) The problem is how to translate sentence like that. So I think...

How does Nahuatl handle sentence like: "I am a brave soldier." or "You are a smart girl" Generally with compounding, i.e. "1sg-brave-soldier", "2sg-smart-girl". It's also possible to have two predicates, i.e. "1sg-brave 1sg.-soldier", "2sg-smar...

w > v / V_C or V_# I bit suspect this is not that realistic. For example, phoneme like /iwk/ can turn in /ivk/ which is harder to pronounce. Probably it's better if w>f b > v / _C happened in Neo-Punic. w > v unconditionally is so trivially common as to be not worth mentioning. /ivk/ is not at all ...

How does Nahuatl handle sentence like: "I am a brave soldier." or "You are a smart girl"

How do you make a poll?