Zompist Bboard Again

Usually, a supershort vowel is written with a breve, so I don't see why you couldn't transcribe it as [j̆] or the whole thing as [j̆ʔ], though I admit I find [kinj̆ʔ] a bit difficult to articulate as a monosyllable, if I'm understanding how it's supposed to go. i would just recommend going with som...

I've been tearing my hair out for way too long for what this issue is worth, so I'm looking to you folks for a hand. I can't figure out the best way to describe the sound that plurals in my language make. To form plurals, a /j/ is appended to the end, but it has a rather abrupt glottal stop. So far,...

I particularly love this idea! I don’t know if you’ve considered this yet (it sounds like you may not have), but you could even incorporate this into your language’s noun paradigm rather than just giving a couple of affixes — so something like having nouns obligatorily be marked for, say, definiten...

Here's a late appendix. Using the advice given as well as some thinking, I've done something a bit experimental, probably over-complicated, but it's bound to happen on my first conlang (I've made the effort to moderate it, so it's not me being lazy and saying "Oh, it's my first one, better tras...

Quick question here: what do you mean by not having much ‘derivation’? Do you mean that there isn’t any derivational morphology (which sounds implausible)? Or do you mean that there isn’t any language evolution? (Which sounds equally implausible.) I meant it was a thing of little to no language evo...

man-ERG PAST-kick-EVID.VIS-3P.SNG dog-ABS The man kicked the dog. I make sure my core features will work, and I think about overall syntax like word order. Then, I start adding more elements that are the other, non-core features. I also start thinking about how to handle adjectives, adjunct/oblique...

Awesome responses, and thanks for the welcomes! Now - I can say that I'm quite relieved to see these various examples and how things work. I was definitely overcomplicating things, it seems. I think most of my main concerns stemmed from the fact that I was worried that coming back to something earli...

I'm brand new to this scene, so while I am (relatively) clueless when it comes to certain concepts in how this whole construction process works, I will say now that I'm aware that this process differs from person to person. Being fresh out of the gates I'd rather have at least something as my point ...