User:Schiaparelliorbust/Hunting's language
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Agreed on stuff
Phonology and phonotactics:
- Sounds are /aeiouy/ /ptck/ /fsʃçx/ /mnŋ/ /lwj/. Legal diphthongs are /ai/ /ei/ /oi/ /au/ /eu/.
- /ŋ/ is written as <ng> when not followed by /k/ and <n> otherwise. /ç/ is written with <h>, /ʃ/ is written with <z>, /tʃ/ is written with <tz>, and everything else is written with its IPA character.
- Syllable onsets can be::
- Any single consonant
- Any affricate (/pf/ /ts/ /tʃ/ /cç/ /kx/)
- Stop or fricative followed by /l/
- Fricative or nasal followed by /w/
- Syllable codas can be:
- Any single consonant other than /w/ or /j/
- Any affricate (/pf/ /ts/ /tʃ/ /cç/ /kx/)
- Nasal followed by matching stop or fricative (this can produce [ɲ] but only non-contrastively)
- Fricative followed by stop (not necessarily matching)
- Restrictions on inter-syllable clusters:
- Affricates cannot be followed by stops
- Nasals followed by stops must match the stop ([ɲ] appears again)
- Credit: fluffykitty
Affixes
| First person | -et |
| Second person | -o |
| Third person animate | -ei |
| Third person inanimate | -ein |
| Infinitive | -(m)ai |
| Simple present | -han |
| Present continuous | -(X/l)eihc |
| Simple future | -(S/l)uh |
| Future continuous | -(H/h)em |
| Fricative/stop | Nasal/approx | Monophthong | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | -e | -oi | -e | -(l)u | ||
| Accusative | -Sa | -e | -s | -n | ||
| Genitive | -Ha | -Si | -Ho | -oi | -ne | -noi |
| Dative | -Fu | -Foi | -Xu | -Xoi | -l | -(m)it |
| Instrumental | -Ho | -Si | -Ho | -oi | -ni | -ne |
| Locative | -Ha | -Ho | -Xoi | -ne | -(m)it | |
Words
| Food | Ngwe |
| Water | Pu |
| Unpotable water | Kets |
| Word | Mask |
| Table | Kala |
| Chair | Taj |
| Bed | Kejm |
| Air | Jil |
| Eye | Syk |
| Mouth | Lupom |
| Ear | Satil |
| Nose | Hlant |
| Arm | Wal |
| Leg | Klej |
| Foot | Fax |
Proposed changes and opinions
fluffykitty:
- Make the word for "good" the same as the word for "edible" (and maybe have more food metaphors while we're at it)
- SOV word order
- Split case marking across determiner and noun (like in German)
- Use auxiliary verbs
- Allow omission of subject pronouns by marking person and number on verbs
- Sandhi with grammatical affixes
- Affixes for deriving agent nouns and similar from verbs (eg English "-er", "-ee", but for more arguments like "receiver", "tool", "source", etc)
- Six-case system (NAGD, locative, instrumental)
Moosey:
- VSO word order
- /l/ as a nucleus shouldn't be next to "wacky consonant clusters".