Conlang I've been working on

Highlander

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Just wanted to share some progress on a conlang I have been working on. This one is being created with the goal of making one or more manuscripts, similar in style to the Voynich manuscript. I wanted to pull inspiration from several languages; Ojibwe, Massachusett, Turkish and some others to name a few.

To begin with, here is a quick overview of the phonology.

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Acceptable consonant clusters: -ms, -msl-, -tl-. -sk-, -sg-, -ssp, -sst-, -ssk-, -mb, -nd-, -ng-, -nj-

Affricates are c (ts) and tc ([FONT=&quot]tʃ)

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[/FONT] Acceptable vowel clusters: au (ʉ), ai (a:), iu


Here is an overview of what I have down for grammar.

ORDER OF WORDS
Verb Subject Object
"ate Samual oranges"

STRESS
Typically the second to last syllable is stressed, unless otherwise indicated. (this is hazy right now as I will be following an iambic meter system)

PHONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS
Typically consonantal clusters don't occur at the beginnings of words.

AGGLUTINATING, in that each affix typically has one meaning.

PARTS OF SPEECH
Nouns, verbs, postpositions, adjectives, others

INDICATING PLURAL, CASE AND GENDER FORMS OF ADJECTIVES AND NOUNS
CASE
Nominative
Object
Apudessive (next to something)
Inessive (inside something)
Intrative (between something)
Locative (location)
Temporal (used only with time expression, spec. time)
Instructive (means, answers question how?)
Vocative (O World!)

TENSE
Far past
Near past
Present
Near future
Far future
Unspecified

GENDER
Masculine
Feminine
Transgender
Neuter
Animative

PLURAL
Singular
Dual
Plural

PoV
First person
Second person
Third person
Fourth Person

VERB INFLECTION
GENDER
Masculine
Feminine
Transgender
Neuter
Animative

PLURAL
Singular
Dual
Plural

PoV
First person
Second person
Third person
Fourth Person

Here is a chart for Pronouns:

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Some basic vocabulary:

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And the first two lines of a creation story I am working on.

In the beginning He and She created
talcjuuliinidhuku'a jut i jot oxaid lem

Their first child
bossac'ii ucata'la oxa
 

Highlander

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Ganesha said:
That's very impressive work. Why did you choose those particular languages?
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Mainly because I wanted something that had a high morpheme-to-word ratio, was highly polysynthetic and sounded at the same time somewhat Native American but also Fino-Turkic (so far a lot of the vocab has taken Turkish inspiration).
 

Keenir

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Animative?

you may be confusing Gender with the broader Class.

other than that, its interesting.
(though i fear you're trying for too much complexity right out of the starting gate - even Tolkein didn't make Quenya on his first or fiftieth tries)
 

Highlander

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Keenir said:
Animative?

you may be confusing Gender with the broader Class.

other than that, its interesting.
(though i fear you're trying for too much complexity right out of the starting gate - even Tolkein didn't make Quenya on his first or fiftieth tries)
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Lots of languages have Animate and Inanimate, namely Basque.

And I'm trying to make it naturalistic; natural languages are complex.
 

Highlander

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I don't know, I don't think it is too complex; maybe I got carried away with grammatical cases though . . .
 

Highlander

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Some updates:

CASE

Nominative Sste-
Object P'a-
Apudessive -xauja
Inessive -xaute
Locative Und- if followed by a vowel or /s z j w/ otherwise /d/ is silent
Temporal Tceve-
Instructive -hanju
Vocative -o'ai


GENDER

Masucline -u-
Feminine -o-
Transgender -iu-
Neuter -u-a-
Animative -e-


PLURAL

Singular -'a
Dual -'la
Plural -k'a


TENSE

Far Past -id
Near Past Ucii-
Present None, considered normal
Near Future Ida-
Far Future -aci
Unspecified -ul


POINT OF VIEW

First Jazta-
Second -skiuzz
Third Ujazta-
Fourth Mbauwu-


I translated that origional passage wrong. This is correct:

In the beginning he and she created

Sstetalcjuuliinidhuku'a jut i jot oxaid lem

Their first child

bossac'ii ucata'la p'aoxa
 

Ganesha

I don't think you got carried away with cases; it's about the same as Latin, and Latin isn't too complicated.
 
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