Zompist Bboard Again

Phonology
<p b t d c j k g q> /p b t d tS dZ k g ?/
<f s x h> /f s S h/
<m n ny ng> /m n nj N/
<w r l y> /w r l j/
<a e i o u> /a e i o u/

Phonotactics
(C1 (C2)) V (C3)
C1: Any consonant except ng
C2: /w r l j/
C3: everything besides vcd obstruents
Nouns
Nouns do not mark for number
ek serir
one lock
a lock

ar serir
two lock
two locks
Verbs
Verbs lack conjugation.
for person:
mi kome
1sg eat
I eat

ye kome
3sg. eat
they eat

Word Order
For sentences it is SVO.
gato jwe maus
cat chase mouse
The cat chases the mouse

Adjectives precede nouns
hong lata
red can
red can

Adverbs follow verbs

pau dire

run slow
run slowly

Lexicon
Words are chosen to be easy to pronounce regardless of origin.
For example, window is okno from Russian, money is paise from Hindi, meat is laham from Arabic and so on.

Words are also chosen for shortness e.g
grod for city, jauxo for professor

Food items are pronounced as in their 'source' language e.g jauja for 'dumpling', papa for 'potato', caxkali for 'taco' (a bit of a stretch), and separate items for lajang, salsa, catni

I appreciate that you didn't just make the phonology ptkmnsh (C)V like every other cowardly IAL.

One detail, though: most Koreans don't really pronounce the [w] in the word mouse. It comes out sounding more like /ts\i/ or dz\i/.
EDIT: Wait, it's SVO, not SOV. Whoops. Am too stupid for English-based pidgin.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:47 pm I appreciate that you didn't just make the phonology ptkmnsh (C)V like every other cowardly IAL.

One detail, though: most Koreans don't really pronounce the [w] in the word mouse. It comes out sounding more like /ts\i/ or dz\i/.
EDIT: Wait, it's SVO, not SOV. Whoops. Am too stupid for English-based pidgin.

That was based off of Justin B Rye's proposed inventory as an alternative to Esperanto, and trying to make it actually fit commonly spoken languages, instead of just Polynesian ones

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:47 pm I appreciate that you didn't just make the phonology ptkmnsh (C)V like every other cowardly IAL.

Rinkwa awkasi ma kowati???
My auxlang is cowardly???

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:11 pm

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:47 pm I appreciate that you didn't just make the phonology ptkmnsh (C)V like every other cowardly IAL.

Rinkwa awkasi ma kowati???
My auxlang is cowardly???

Mine is just closer to the global average phonetic inventory
Ni tok no jaban
2sg. language no coward

Questions are indicated as follows:
Polar questions are preceded with: si ya no that is "yes or no"
Si ya no cikitsak?
yes or no doctor
"Are they a doctor?"

Interrogative questions are indicated through the ma particle:
Ni pode dauda ma
2sg. be.able run Q
"Can you run?"

Interrogative pronouns are regular relative pronouns with ma after them:
xe ma Who?
wat ma What?
donde ma When?
komo ma How?

Xe ma marni ye
who Q kill 3sg.
"Who kill(ed) them?"

Names

Names of countries and people are adapted to fit the OTHER IAL’s phonetics e.g

Wiwek Codri
Vivek Chaudhry

Yaropolka Morosof
Yaropolk Morozov

Xe Baujai
Xie Baozhai

Direnci Girsel
Direnç Gürsel

Cenci Gintar
Zenzi Günther

Barat
India


Doiclanda
Germany

Names of technologies are formed by compounds.

faroko
far-eye
“Telescope”

masnatubo
bladder-tube
“Catheter”