Wow! It’s been almost a year! I’ve still be working on Shonkasika (formerly Shonkasikas). I have made extensive changes to the morphology and syntax and have been slowly working on the lexicon.

For the first time, I have a conlang with 6 noun genders. They are classified by final stem vowel and the noun’s animacy (animacy distinction is an idea I have carried over from Rayanese). The genders are common, masculine, feminine, neuter, celestial and terrestrial.

Also, for the first time, I decided to do away with separate definite and indefinite articles. There are no indefinite articles and nouns are marked as definite not by a separate word, but a special declension pattern. Below are example declensions of an animate noun, dero (masculine) – man and an inanimate noun, rida (terrestial) – potato.

Declensions of other genders are very similar to those above. Inanimate e-stems (neuter nouns) have an indefinite nominative plural in –i, and definite nominative plural in –is. i-stems (both neuter and common nouns) have their nominative singulars in –ie and –ies.