Monday, December 17, 2007

Ntaske'ak [nd{s.ku."?ok]

Today I created a little excercise in zen conlanging: a conlang with 7 phonemes. It's only a short sketch, but I'll share it anyways.

Phonemes (I'll use Z-Sampa, since the explorer I use at work doesn't get along very well with unicode)

t k ' n s /t k ? n s/
e a /@ a/

Syllabic structure: (C)(C)V(C)(C)

Stress: falls on the penultimate syllable in it's closed and on the last syllable if not

E.g.
katenke /kA."din.kU/
kateke /kA.dI."gu/

Phonotactics

@[+str] -> i / [t,n,s]_(*C)@
@[-str] -> I / [t,n,s]_(*C)@
@[+str] -> u / [k,?]_
@[-str] -> U / [k,?]_
@[+str] -> e
a -> O / [k,?]_[k,?]@
a -> A / [k,?]_
a -> { / [t,n,s]_
nt -> nd / #_
nk -> Ng / #_
[t,k] -> [d,g] / V_V
[?t,?k] -> [t_>,k_>]
s -> 4 / V_V
n -> 4 / _t

Some examples:

nekente /n@."k@n.t@/ [nI."gu4.t@]
nka'esa /nka.?@."sa/ [NgO.?U."r{]
a'taseske /a?.ta."s@s.k@/ [a.t_>{."4is.kU]

That's it for now. I'll come back when I have some morphosyntax going on.

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