I made some changes to Shonkasika’s definite duals, and the definite plurals of inanimate nouns: For example:rida (a) potatoridari two potatoesridarza the two potatoes; both potatoesridasai the potatoes
Lexember 31
Since today is my birthday, here goes Shonkasika’s day 31: ronyawostro /ro.ɲa’wo.stro/ n. cel. anniversarykhochü /’xo.t͡ʃy/ n. neut. birthkhochüboz /xo’t͡ʃy.boz/ n. neut. birthdaychütenuz /t͡ʃy’te.nuz/ v. be born
Shonkasika Updates I
It’s been a long time since a post. I will try to update more frequently so I can keep up with changes via the blog. Here’s what I worked on today: I've work on both grammar and vocabulary today, so far!I changed the suffixes that form the middle and reciprocal voices to -da and -du …
Shonkasika nouns
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 …
Reorganization of noun genders/classes
In all of my conlangs with noun gender or class, I’ve used stem vowel (or lack thereof) to indicate gender. I am considering using some other ending not including the stem vowel to indicate noun class. My latest language, called Shonkasikas (“Mountain Speech”), has various patterns for noun declension patterns based on the ‘full stem’ …
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New Conlang
So Rayanese is on the back burner as I develop a new conlang based on new whims. I haven’t gotten rid of Rayanese; it still lives in digital suspension with other conlangs of mine.Like Rayanese, this new language, so far, it looking to be very European-ish in its grammar. This language will also be highly …
The -al declension
I have decided to add even more variation to the noun/adjective declension system. For nouns whose nominative singular form ends in –r, the plural morpheme changes to –al instead of –ar. We’ll use the noun ayndir light, to demonstrate it. Case Singular Plural nominative ayndir ayndiral accusative ayndirïk ayndiralga genitive ayndirïs ayndirazla dative ayndirïc ayndiralja …
Rayanese Determiners and Animacy
I am considering having some of Rayanese determiners differentiate for animacy, as the 3rd person pronouns already do: singular plural 3p animate ko* jo 3p inanimate so ho I have already decided to change the 3p animate singular pronoun from lo to ko. I think it would be neat to have these pronouns double …
Rayanese Vowel Inventory
Since I have been revising so much of Rayanese lately, I’ve been thinking about revising part of the phonology, specifically the vowel inventory. Previously, these were the vowels: Spelling X-Sampa a a e e i i o o u u ä { (American English cat) ö 2 ü y ï I ë E I want …
Possession
Rayanese possession isn’t anything special. Rayanese uses possessive determiners and pronouns derived from the genitive standard personal pronouns. I did change the personal pronouns mainly to have distinct plural stems for the 3rd person forms. Here is the new set of personal pronouns (leaving out the reflexive and reciprocal forms): singular plural 1st mo …