I think that since /ʃ/ is spelled <x>, /t͡ʃ/ may be spelled <tx>, but I think I will stick with <ch> for now. My next step has been to work on personal pronouns: Although Old English had lost its reflexive pronoun, Kastixex redeveloped one from borrowing from a local Iberian Germanic language. Here is the …
Iberian West Germanic / Kastixex – WIP
Kastixex /kas’tiʃeʃ/ from “Castilish” from Old Spanish Castiella This new project is based on an alt-history in which a group of mostly Old English speakers ended up on the Iberian peninsula and then their language underwent sound changes similar to those that led to the development of Spanish and Galician. I would imagine that there …
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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 …
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 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 …
Still working on morphology
I wonder if working on morphology is my favorite part of conlanging – I seem to spend a lot of time on it! Anyway, I worked a bit on Rayanese verb and noun morphology. For verbs, I decided to add several aspects, to give more information on a singular verb form. This is what my …
Still working on Rayanese Noun Plurals
I’m continuing to work on Rayanese noun plurals. I have gotten to having two main noun (and adjective) declensions, one with plurals in –ar (basically nouns whose nominative singular form ends in a consonant) and one with plurals in –n (nominative singulars end in a vowel). I’ll use the nouns huz male twin and deru …
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Noun Plurals–Revised II
I posted thoughts on possible revisions to the plural forms of nouns (and adjectives) that end in vowels. In this post, I will take a look at those that end in consonants. I will use the masculine noun huz male twin in these examples. (Excuse the formatting. This post is copied from another page). Here …