dhoklang scratchpad 2.0 (NP: Turkish but ergative)
dhoklang scratchpad 2.0 (NP: Turkish but ergative)
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In recent months, all of my conlanging efforts have been either a) Algonquian thinly disguised or b) a posteriori. I'm starting to get bored with those, so I'm going to start an a priori family that's a bit easier to handle.
Consonants:
Vowels and diphthongs:
The orthography should be pretty self-explanatory. Palatalization is written with a following <ь> unless before any of /i e æ/; before those vowels palatalized consonants are unmarked and unpalatalized ones are written with a following <ъ>, unless they're labials. /æ~ä/ is written <æ>, /j/ <y>, /ɸ/ <f>.
Roots are generally of the form C(R)VC, where R may be any of /w l lʲ r rʲ/: *mratь, *pwær, *gedz, nъis, *dlьus. (мрать, пвæр, гедз, ныс, длюс?)
Allowed consonant clusters are CR, RC, and NC. Palatalization is not contrastive on the first member of clusters.
Proto-Thingy is strongly suffixing, with initial stress: *mratь 'dog', *mrátik 'dog.GEN', *mrátikъæn 'your dog.GEN'. The mid vowels /e o/ are only allowed in word-initial syllables.
Nouns have no gender; the case-number paradigms are very nearly completely agglutinative, except for the ablative plural.
There is an ergative case of sorts, identical to the genitive of animate nouns and the instrumental of inanimates.
Possessive paradigm:
These attach to the case endings: mratæwirtsik 'away from our two dogs' ['mɾɒtʲæwiɾtsʲik], ogъændik 'in their city' ['ogändʲik].
I'll have to go find some inspiration from something other than Turkic/Uralic for the verbs...
Consonants:
*p *t *tʲ *k *kʲ *b *d *dʲ *g *gʲ *m *n *nʲ *ts *tsʲ *dz *dzʲ *ɸ *s *sʲ *x *xʲ *w *l *lʲ *j *ɾ *ɾʲ
Vowels and diphthongs:
*i~ɨ *u *e~ə *o *æ~ä *ɒ
The orthography should be pretty self-explanatory. Palatalization is written with a following <ь> unless before any of /i e æ/; before those vowels palatalized consonants are unmarked and unpalatalized ones are written with a following <ъ>, unless they're labials. /æ~ä/ is written <æ>, /j/ <y>, /ɸ/ <f>.
Roots are generally of the form C(R)VC, where R may be any of /w l lʲ r rʲ/: *mratь, *pwær, *gedz, nъis, *dlьus. (мрать, пвæр, гедз, ныс, длюс?)
Allowed consonant clusters are CR, RC, and NC. Palatalization is not contrastive on the first member of clusters.
Proto-Thingy is strongly suffixing, with initial stress: *mratь 'dog', *mrátik 'dog.GEN', *mrátikъæn 'your dog.GEN'. The mid vowels /e o/ are only allowed in word-initial syllables.
Nouns have no gender; the case-number paradigms are very nearly completely agglutinative, except for the ablative plural.
SG DUAL PL ABS -Ø -æ -ær GEN -ik -ikъæ -ikъær DAT -at -atъæ -atъær INST -us -usъæ -usъær ALL -in -inъæ -inъær LOC -ænь -ænæ -ænær ABL -(æ)wi -(æ)wiyæ -(æ)wir
There is an ergative case of sorts, identical to the genitive of animate nouns and the instrumental of inanimates.
Possessive paradigm:
SG DU PL 1 -(æ)k -(æ)bæk -(i)tsik 1+2 -(æ)kъæn -(i)tsir 2 -(æ)n -(æ)bæn -(i)rik 3 -(æ)d -(æ)bæd -(i)dik
These attach to the case endings: mratæwirtsik 'away from our two dogs' ['mɾɒtʲæwiɾtsʲik], ogъændik 'in their city' ['ogändʲik].
I'll have to go find some inspiration from something other than Turkic/Uralic for the verbs...