conlang
oh gosh, this looks way more complicated on the screen than it does on paper...
(this is the table of endings for verbs, which indicate Evidentiality and Epistemic Modality)
conlang
(in this thread, any words that I put with a Capital letter at the start are ones that you can look up on wikipedia and get a fairly understandable explanation)
conlang | explaining that table [1]
the – before the letters just means that it's a suffix (they're all suffixes)
following that is the optional vowel. This vowel is inserted in between the verb and the rest of the suffix, but ONLY if the vowel's absence would break the pronounciation rules.
Each of the optional vowels has an acute accent above it, which means that it is associated with a high tone. Any vowels without an accent above them have a low tone.
conlang | explaining that table [2]
after the optional vowel comes the actual suffix, which (with the exception of the "surprised but believe it's true" form of the Reported evidential ending) is a consonant cluster.
tɬ and ʈʂ are single consonants rather than 2 (voiecless alveolar lateral affricate and voiceless retroflex affricate)
conlang | a very early draft
A very early draft describing the language is available here:
https://averylychee.neocities.org/languages/lang3/
(this link is not a permalink! Once I come up with a name for the language, it will move to a different address – if you're reading this in the future, scroll down this thread to find the more up to date link)
Let me know if I've made any mistakes or if there are any things that need clarifying ♥
conlang | request for resources/help
hmm... I'm concerned that my tense/aspect/mode system is unconciously tending towards the way Germanic languages work.
Does anyone have any good references for Tense and Aspect systems that aren't like English? Either from the perspective of creating a conlang, or from grammars of real languages.
conlang | "how do I make my own conlang?"
Since I was asked "how do you even manage to start a conlang?", here's my answer:
It's kind of like worldbuilding, in that you can either do a vague overview and just give the impression of a language, or you can delve into the depths and build a complex beast.
The way I started was with this guide: http://zompist.com/kit.html
(the first paragraph-ish is just an add for future books, the actual guide starts with the italics text)
conlang | "how do I make my own conlang?"
even though my current conlang is called "unnamed language 3", it's actually my 6th conlang in the past 5 years. If you start making your own and need some help, I'm very happy to help you out with anything!
conlang | naming
part of why my current language doesn't have a name is because it's very difficult to come up with a name that works in both the language itself and in English, since the sounds they have in common are:
/p/, /m/, /i/, /a/
And while I could name it something like "pami", I feel like this language would have a much longer name.
re: conlang | naming
@lizardsquid only those four? and to be fair you can absolutely just come up with a name for the language itself and have the English pronunciation for that be however closely you can approach it within English (ex. KXL "Kǁingarúp Úrtǃa" /kǁ͡kiŋaɻúp úɻʈǃ͡qa/ -> EN "Kǁingarúpese" /ˌkslɪŋəruˈpiːz/)
