Yuin
Hey everyone. This is a conlang I've been trying to sketch out for the past couple weeks. Note that this is just a preliminary sketch, but I've hit a point where I can't seem to get any further, so I'm posting it before it is really ready to see if anyone has any thoughts that might help me get it moving further. . . Disclaimer: this is the first conlang I've done in a long time, and my memory of terminology may have failed me at some point. Feel free to point out any mistakes in terms that I use. . . Phonology I am aware that I break universals in this. . .please don't kill me, I made the choice purely based on what I think sounds good, not on what is linguistically probable. I also know that most of the sounds are found in English -- like I said, I just included sounds I like. <b t k d g c> /b t k d g c/ <th dh lh zh s z x> /T D K Z s z X/ <ts dz tl> /tS dZ tK/ <m n> /m n/ <l r w j> /l r\ w y/ <a á o i e u ou au> /A a o I E u oU Ao/ Allophony: Before another vowel, < I > and are realized as < i > and At the end of a work, are palatized After a consonant at the end of a word, is realized as a syllabic r (can't find the X-Sampa) Syllable Structure: Essentially (C)(C)V(V)(C)(C) For consonant clusters, the following combinations are the only ones allowed: Stop+Nasal Stop+Liquid Nasal+Liquid Stop+Fricative (of similar voicing) Nasal+Voiced Stop Grammar This is fairly faintly sketched. . .but here's what I have. Nouns fall on the nominative-accusative definition. These aren't declined in any way, but as sentence structure is fairly strictly OVS, that isn't an issue. Nouns can be singular, plural, or dual. Plural is shown by -n -- for example: yui - wolf yuin - wolves Dual is marked by the suffix -nr yuinr - two wolves. While no definite or indefinite articles exist, there are a number of ways to specify what (of the noun) you are referring to. For example: yui dzau - wolf yuin dzo - wolves yui dzr - wolf yui dzor - wolves Verbs Verbs can be marked to show past tense using -a. cou - sing coua - sang anno - own annoa - owned Mood is set by particles at the beginning of sentences. tsia vassau cou va I sing of rain ban tsia vassau cou va, shen I would sing of rain, if. . . bax tsia vassau cou va I do not sing of rain se tsia vassau cou va Do I sing of rain? This phrase "tsia " literally means "on the topic of " tsia yuin dzo, se xa anno zha? wolf-PL , question topic.referrer own you Regarding these wolves, do you own them? tsia vassau coua va Regarding rain sang I I sang of rain. So, yes, this is definitely just a short sketch, but I really want to keep working on it. Any critique is welcome, and look for updates to this thread as I continue to work on the grammar, vocabulary, and other stuff. Thanks!

Hi. I suppose I shant kill you. This looks pretty neat, though I am having trouble following your phonology. Did you switch which is SMAPA with the vowels? Or are some of your langs vowels always in caps? Also, you don't seem to have a 'c' in the phonology section but you do in the examples. Are 'c' and 'k' interchangeable? Or are there rules governing the usage? Or did I just miss something (a total possibility)? Are you going to have more grammatical markers for your nouns? And will there be instances where the topic marker isn't used, just implied? Also, are there more verb tenses? What more about verbs can you tell us? And what about adjectives / adverbs?

I don't know how or why I managed to overlook this conlang. As soon as my RL becomes a little less hectic I'll examine it better and come up with a better comment. Thanks, Thakowsaizmu, for bringing my attention back to heddkalal's conlang. @heddkalal; have you named it yet?