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They'll be independent phonological words. Some of them will also be able to show up as complements to other verbs, if that makes a difference. (There are languages with a reduplication pattern that's also used in some compounds---like, instead of using the whole word for the second element of the ...

How your language express relative clause and subordinate clause?

Can the reduplication be separated? If not, I suggest you to write it in a single word, likeː

ijaujaku, suwasuwasu, maihwikihi.

To be fair, This is not how reduplication work in Indonesian either. But I personally don't like a orthographical word that doesn't coincide with grammatical word.

Dunno if this would go better in linguistics since it deals with realism based on natlangs, but it is for a conlang so: How realistic would it be for a language to go from SOV to VSO, possibly by fronting the verb for some kind of emphasis? What other parts of grammar would be likely to change earl...

As inverse of Linguistcat, how does a language switch from VSO to a SOV word order. Probably it starts from VSO to SVO first (topicalization by fronting it before verb is common). But then how a language switch from NOUN-ADJ to ADJ-NOUN?

To be honest, at the moment I don't know yet what a verbal slot table is. :oops: It is a table that describes how to order an affix. Like -3 -2 -1 0 Person Number TAM Root I'm not sure that I really understand what you mean. Just mark either of them. Either you can have definite article, topic prom...

I don't like how you put presentation on your prefixes. It should be tr(e)-, z(i)-, etc. Since your language is agglutinative, please give me verbal slot table. it's very uncommon for a language not to fuse number and personal marking. Where is pronoun and voice marking? I also want to know how you...

I appreciate the work that went into this. Cases are limited only by your imagination and don't fit into neat boxes, as Sal said, but your spreadsheet is useful for finding names for cases. I still can't quite figure out the best name for Iliaqu's case meaning "about X", "on the topi...

IIRC a syntactic change from S Aux O V or Aux S O V to S O V is fairly common, typically with an intermediate S O V-Aux stage (so that the inflected auxiliary, which originally appeared early in the clause, eventually ends up suffixed to the clause-final verb). I suppose such a change can and does ...

Is grammatical change included here? Is it possible that an S-Aux-O-V isolating language turns into S O V polysynthetic language? The PAR language is fusional-isolating language that have V2 word order, except that object pronoun (but not regular noun) is put before auxiliary verb. I it is possible ...

Nonconcatenative morphology isn't exactly vastly common in natlangs, don't forget. And loads of people at least attempt triconsonantal root conlangs. Wrong, there is loads of it. If the language is tonal (which is very common), there is a good chance that they have nonconcatenative morphology. In f...

Nonconcatenative morphology isn't exactly vastly common in natlangs, don't forget. And loads of people at least attempt triconsonantal root conlangs. Wrong, there is loads of it. If the language is tonal (which is very common), there is a good chance that they have nonconcatenative morphology. In f...

In sound changes, are names of things or entities considered sacred more resistant to sound change than other words, or is there no difference? Are there sometimes "irregular" sound changes that are really just unusual sound change rules for names of things or entities considered sacred? ...

Is there any language with tone that work like this: mǫą́st (cow) > mǫąstókh (cows) daík (fly) > daikókh (flies) sur (well) > surokh (wells) táód (frog) > táódókh chêék (pant) > chéekókh (pants) So, each word is assigned 5 tone group. H, L, HL, LH, and HLH. However, if the word contains more than on...

Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:08 am Next question: what about having the same word for "to give birth" and "to be born"? That is, one word for the act of participating in a birth as either the mother or the baby?

Ergative language?

Consonants Labials Alveolar Palatals Velars Glottal Plosives p t c k Fricatives f~v s~z ɕ~ʑ x~ɣ~h Voiceds b~m d~n ɟ~ɲ Liquids r j w /c/ and /ɕ/ is alveopalatal. /ɟ/ is true palatal. Fricatives is voiced between vowel. /x/ is pronounced /h/ word initially. Voiced consonants becomes nasal if the adja...

Newbie question: When coming up with a romanization scheme for a conlang, is there an easy and not-too-confusing way of indicating that a vowel is both accented and long? Can you double the vowel for the length and acute accent for the first letter for stress? Thank you for your reply. I could do t...

What does i and in mean?

Raphael wrote: ↑Tue Jan 08, 2019 1:17 am Newbie question: When coming up with a romanization scheme for a conlang, is there an easy and not-too-confusing way of indicating that a vowel is both accented and long?

Can you double the vowel for the length and acute accent for the first letter for stress?

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Mon Jan 07, 2019 11:40 pm is /anː/ -> /ãn/ plausible? and can it be generalized to any vowel/nasal?

By the way, I have similiar but at the exact opposite direction.