Terrabalt's Shack

-- PROJECT (C)HOCOMINT --

This part of this website are for documenting my conlang; an as-of-yet unnamed constructed language, created as an experiment and playing around with linguistic subject i've learned around the net. There is no other ultimate goal in mind, no direction, and probably will end up as a frankenlanguage monster, lost in the frozen arctic of novice conlangs.

Riveting, i know. But hey.


PHONOLOGY

Sounds

For the sounds of this language, i have chosen this inventory, notated in IPA:

Consonants
Labial Coronal Palatal Velar
Nasal m m n n ny ɲ ng ŋ
Plosive p [b-p] t [d-t] c [d̠ʒ-t̠ʃ] k [ɡ-k]
Fricatives f [v-f] d [ð-θ] y ʝ g ɣ
Tap r ɾ
Vowel
Front Central Back
Close i i u u
Mid è e e ə ö ɔ
Open a a o ɒ

As you can see, it is pretty small and compact. They're also can be pretty familiar for the english speaker amongst you. Of course, there's already hint on some morphology trickery going on, but we'll get to that later. In the meanwhile...

Writing System

The native writing system, named [...], is the main writing system used to write this language. It is a hanacaraka derived directly from Kawi, in which the oldest texts were written on.

Syllable Structure

The main syllable structure are (c)cv(c), with weight on the onset. So for instance, [...].

Stress

There is no word-level stress; a phrase are prototypically spoken "flatly", with a dip in tone on the antepenultimate, raising it on the penultimate before ending on the normal tone.

MORPHOLOGY

-- TO BE CONTINUED... --