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Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: October 10th, 2020, 5:54 pm This thread came from a post in BokaBB's thread.

Entity Valkyrie 2 wrote: October 9th, 2020, 9:24 pm I'm working on a language called Mercfalk. It would be romance-based and reminds of auxlangs.
By the way, the profile says that I come from Hijuatl, Zumaland. This "Zumaland" fictional island will use Mercfalk (as it's auxlang).

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Vowels:
a, e, i, o, u (same as IPA)

Diphthongs:
ai, au, ei, eu, oi, ou

Consonants:
b, p, f, v, t, d, z, ts, r, l, j, g, w, h (same as IPA)
digraph ds makes /dz/ sound
letter s makes /s/ sound
digraph sh makes /ʃ/ sound; digraph ch makes /tʃ/ sound
digraph jj makes /ʒ/ sound; digraph dj makes /dʒ/ sound
digraph hh makes /x/ sound
letter c makes /k/ sound before a, o, u; makes /s/ sound before e, i
letter k is only used before e, i; makes /k/ sound
digraph qu makes /kw/ sound before vowel
digraph gu makes /gw/ sound before vowel

Parts of speech:
Two letter words are special (example la = the, de = of, si = yes). There is no indefinite article.
Pronouns have two letters (example me = I, tu = you, il = she)
Possessive pronouns add -an as if adjective (example mean = my/mine, tuan = you/yours etc.)
Nouns end in -a; plurals end in -as; there is no nominative or accusative, nor masculine and feminine
Adjectives end in -an; adverbs end in -ali
Verbs can conjugate to infinitive (-e), present (-es), past (-ed), future (-en), conditional (-el); perfect uses "av" for the "have" part in English; there is no continuous.
Prepositions end in -i
Correlatives (words like "what", "there", "somewhere") end in -u: Questions (e.g. where) start with "qu", Definite (e.g. there) start with "t", Indefinite (e.g. somewhere), universal (e.g. everywhere), negative (e.g. nowhere) undecided.

Haven't finished vocabulary yet, but will be borrowed from French, Italian, and Spanish.
If you have any suggestions, please tell me.

However, his thread was only used for BokaBB's language, not for other conlangs.

The IPA chart for anyone to copy (if they want to create a language):

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Vowels:
i y • ɨ ʉ • ɯ u
ɪ ʏ •     •  ʊ
e ø • ɘ ɵ • ɤ o
 ø̞  •  ə  •  o̞
ɛ œ • ɜ ɞ • ʌ ɔ
 æ  •  ɐ  •
a ɶ •  ä  • ɑ ɒ

Consonants (had no time to copy) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA_pulmo ... with_audio)

BokaBB wrote: October 11th, 2020, 6:01 am I don't like how this began evolving.
Have a good day!

BokaBB