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The Þog of 2023-03-05 — Unnamed Nooby Conlang #1

Phonemes

┌───┬───┬───┬───┐
│  m│  n│   │   │
├───┼───┼───┼───┤
│p~b│t  │   │k  │ /g/ may have merged with /ɣ/
├───┼───┼───┼───┤
│   │θ ð│ç  │  ɣ│
├───┼───┼───┼───┤
│   │  ɾ│   │   │ /d/ may have merged with /ɾ/
└───┴───┴───┴───┘

┌───┬───┐
│i~ɪ│u  │  There are 3 tones:
├───┼───┤  Rising, falling, and flat.
│a  │   │
└───┴───┘

Orthography

┌───────┬─────┐┌───────┬─────┐
│  /m/  │  m  ││ /ɪ~i/ │  i  │
├───────┼─────┤├───────┼─────┤
│  /n/  │  n  ││ /ʊ~u/ │  o  │
├───────┼─────┤├───────┼─────┤
│ /p~b/ │  b  ││ /a~ã/ │  a  │
├───────┼─────┤└───────┴─────┘
│  /t/  │  t  │┌───────┬─────┐
├───────┼─────┤│  /a/  │  a  │
│  /k/  │  k  │├───────┼─────┤
├───────┼─────┤│ /a˥˩/ │  à  │
│  /ɣ/  │  g  │├───────┼─────┤
├───────┼─────┤│ /a˩˥/ │  á  │
│  /θ/  │  s  │└───────┴─────┘
├───────┼─────┤
│  /ð/  │  z  │
├───────┼─────┤
│  /ç/  │  c  │
├───────┼─────┤
│  /ɾ/  │  r  │
└───────┴─────┘

Syntax

• Free word order
• CV(N) syllable structure
• Some grammatical genders
• /ɾ/, /m/, and /n/ cannot appear at the start of a word
• /ɣ/ turns to /k/ when placed before a syllable containing /ɣ/
• /ç/ cannnot appear adjacent to /ɣ/
• /t/ cannot appear adjacent to /θ/
• /ð/ cannot appear adjacent to /ɾ/
• Rising tone cannot appear adjacent to rising tone
• Rising tone cannot appear adjacent to falling tone

Grammar

Roots concatenated onto eachother comprise a compound word that can be modified by markers. Each root that follows the previous is to be read as a modifier to the previous parts of the compound word.

Vocabulary Roots

Examples