Concordia 2.0: Collab World

Cochlea

We could, if we have rain more or less concentrated around the lake, due to elevation casting a rain shadow over the surroundings, we could easily have a flood cycle with outflow being mediated by shallow and wide watercourses, perhaps losing a bit of water into the ground.

I think the elevation setup should be somewhat like that around lake Tanganyika.
 
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Codae

Handy latitude reference: red lines every 15 degrees, orange ones every 5. Note that the lake we're talking about is significantly less equatorial than Lake Tanganyika. It's fairly well approximated by Bolivia or Niger.

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Codae

A patch for the rest of Southern-Hemisphere Mu. Note that it supersedes some of my previous work in order to ensure a sufficient catchment for the big lake.

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Codae

A rough outline of the Northern Continent, in azimuthal equidistant projection. Bear the actual shape of the place in mind when designing terrain.

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Fox-Fire

It doesn't look too bad to me. it could be much worse. Plus after seeing landmasses like Sulawesi it doesn't seem so odd after a little while.
 

Cochlea

Codae said:
Handy latitude reference: red lines every 15 degrees, orange ones every 5. Note that the lake we're talking about is significantly less equatorial than Lake Tanganyika. It's fairly well approximated by Bolivia or Niger.
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What do you think about giving it massive seasonal floods?
 
Chrzęścimir

Chrzęścimir

Hi, I'm invited to this project for creating a conlang(s). I have something "African" here; language named by me Proto-Swaai:

Phonology

Consonants:

/p t k/ [p t k]
/pʰ tʰ kʰ/ [ph th kh]
/b d g/ [b d g]
/ⁿb ⁿd ⁿg/ [mb nd ng]
/t͡ʃ/ [c]
/t͡ʃʰ/ [ch]
/d͡ʒ/ [ġ]
/ⁿd͡ʒ/ [nġ]
/f s h/ [f s h]
/m n ŋ/ [m n ŋ]
/r l/ [r l]
/j w/ [j w]

Vowels:

/i ɯ u/ [i y u]
/e ɤ o/ [e ə o]
/ɑ/ [a]

/iː ɯː uː/ [ii yy uu]
/eː ɤː oː/ [ee əə oo]
/ɑː/ [aa]

Tones:

mid, high, low, rising, falling

Syllable structure:

CSV

C = any consonant
S = any sonorantal consonant
V = any vowel

Accent:

Stress accent on penultimate syllable.

Nouns

-four classes (Human Masculine, Human Feminine, Non-Human Animate, Inanimate)
- hierarchical morphological alignment related with classes.
- no cases
- plurality marked with free particle (in Human classes), partial reduplication of root (Non-Human Animate) or results from a context (Inanimate).
- Definiteness cliticized to nouns (Indefinite, Definite proper, Definite distant)
- personal pronouns pro-cliticized to nouns mean possessors.
- nominal tense clitized to nouns (three tenses; past, present, future)

[Plurality] + [Possessor + Class + Root + Root's extension(s) + Definiteness] + [Nominal tense]

Verbs

- classes prefixed to verbs
- two aspects: imperfective, perfective
- three tenses: past, present, future
- transitivity: intransitive, transitive (unmarked), causative
- evidentiality (witness vs non-witness)
- four deontic moods (Indicative, Conditional, Optative, Imperative)

[Person + Class + Root + Root's extension(s) + Transitivity + Aspect + Tense + Evidentiality + Mood]

Adjectives/Adverbs

They are one part of speech in Proto-Swaai.

Degrees of comparison:

Positive
Intensive

Numerals

1. caka
2. ndua
3. tele
4. angoe
5. anoro
6. onona
7. finda
8. warika
9. juŋoa
10. patana
11. patana caka
20. ndua patana
21. ndua patana caka
100. tebina
1.000. binana

Pronouns

- N-M personal pronouns

Adpositions

- Postpositions.

Syntax

- SOV
- Describing word - Described word
 

Cochlea

Could you try for an ergative lang (like Australian languages) with modern English phonology and phonotactics?
 
Chrzęścimir

Chrzęścimir

Proto-Rumaic

Phonology

Consonants:

/p t ʈ k q/ [p t ṭ k q]
/pʰ tʰ ʈʰ kʰ qʰ/ [ph th ṭh kh qh]
/b d ɖ g ɢ/ [b d ḍ g ġ]
/bʰ dʰ ɖʰ gʰ ɢʰ/ [bh dh ḍh gh ġh]
/s ɬ ʂ h/ [s l ṣ h]
/z ɮ ʐ/ [z ł ẓ]
/m n ɳ ŋ/ [m n ṇ ŋ]
/mʰ nʰ ɳʰ ŋʰ/ [mh nh ṇh ŋh]
/ɾ/ [r]
/ʋ j/ [v j]

Vowels:

/ɪ ɨ ʊ/ [i y u]
/ə/ [e]
/a/ [a]

/iː ɨː uː/ [ī ȳ ū]
/əː/ [ē]
/aː/ [ā]

Phonotactics:

CVC

Accent:

Stress accent on penultimate syllable.

Nouns

- ergative alignment
- secundative ditransitive alignment
- eight cases (Absolutive, Ergative, Genitive, Allative, Ablative, Instrumental, Commitative, Locative)
- three genders (Masculine, Feminine, Neuter)
- three numbers (Singular, Dual, Plural)
- possessive suffixes

[Root + Root's extension(s) + Gender + Possessor + Number + Case]

Verbs

- all subject, agent and patient are suffixed on verbs (tripartite verb alignment)
- gender suffixed
- three aspects (imperfective, perfective, resultative)
- two tenses (past, non-past)
- two main voices (active and passive)
- suffixed causative
- three moods (Indicative, Conditional, Jussive)

[Root + Root's extension(s) + Voice + Causative + Aspect + Tense + Mood + Person + Gender]

Adjectives

Adjectives have the same forms as nouns, but also have three degrees of comparison; Positive, Comparative, Superlative.

Adverbs

Similar to adjectives, but distinguished by their own ending.

Pronouns

- M-T pronouns

Adpositions

Prepositions.

Syntax

- SOV
- Describing word - Described word
 
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Falkanner

Falkanner

I haven't made any conlangs in a long time, but now might be a good time to get back on the horse. Let me know how this is.

Proto-Dakipe

Consonants:
/m n/ [m n]
/p t t͡s k/ [p t ts k]
/b d d͡z/ [b d dz]
/θ̺ s/ [th s]
/ɾ/ [r]

Vowels:
/i e ɛ/ [i e è]
/u o ɔ ɑ/ [u o ò a]

Syllable structure:
(C)V

C: any consonant
V: any vowel

Nouns:
-no gender
-suffix for case and plurality
-12 cases
- Nominative, Accusative, Possessive, Comitative, Benefactive, Causal, Translative, Allative, Ablative, Illative, Inessive, Adessive

Verbs:
-no imperative mood
-no perfect aspect
-future and non-future tense

Numerals:
1. dibari
2. muti
3. òpè
4. tòtso
5. kokisa
6. nutsènòtso
7. sasètu
8. òrèsèdzi
9. othobeme
10. dzòdòmo

Pronouns:
- gender distinction in 3rd person
- Nominative, Accusative, Possessive, Comitative, Benefactive, Causal, Allative, Ablative

Adpositions:
- postpositions

Syntax:
- SVO word order
- genetives go before nouns
- adjectives, numbers, and demonstratives go after nouns
 
ElectricSheepNo54

ElectricSheepNo54

Proto-Erzatsku

A language originally spoken in the midway along the large mountain range in *Africa

Consonants:

/p b t t͡s d k g/ [p b t ts d k g]
/p' b' t' d' k' g'/ [p' b' t' d' k' g']
/m n ŋ ɲ/ [m n ń ñ]
/r/ [r]
/f ð s z ʃ ʒ d͡ʒ ʐ ç ʕ h/ [f th s z š ž ź ż hh c h]
/j ʎ/ [j gl]

Vowels:

/i y u/ [i y u]
/e o/ [e o]
/ə œ ɔ a/ [é ë ó a]

Syllable structures:

(C)V(C)
(V)C(V)

Accent:

Stress on last syllable

Nouns:

Four classes (male, female, inanimate, hypothetical)
Four numbers (singular, dual, plural, unnoted)
Twelve cases (ergative, absolutive, adessive, apudessive, inessive, superessive, initiative, allative, lative, perlative, temporal, benefactive)

Verbs:

Four tenses (present, past, future, far future)
Six aspects (progressive, perfective, imperfective, pluperfective, gnomic, resumptive)
Five moods (indicative, subjunctive, imperative, optative, potential)

Numerals:

Proto-Erzatsku uses a base 9 numeral system.

One: Ëp'
Two: Érż
Three: Sós
Four: Bezix
Five: Desem
Six: Dotóst
Seven: Élasto
Eight: Ka
Nine: Ezastan
Ten: Ezastan ëp'lo

Syntax:

OSV verb order
Adjectives and numbers after nouns
I intend the lexicon to be inspired by Basque. I might develop the proto-Erzatsku culture later.
 
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