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selenicseasI think this is probably the longest I've gone without actually coming up with a name for a conlang. I've created more words since my last update, but none of them seem suitable to actually use as a name. If I don't come up with anything in the next month, I'm probably going to just start calling it samara, which is just the word for "language".
After deciding that syllables could end in /t/, I decided to remove that rule. I only had two words will syllables ending in /t/ and I didn't actually like how they looked.
I took the time to work on adjectives and verbs this past week. I decided that adjectives precede nouns, agree in case and number, and are declined like nouns – so they have different declensions depending on if they end in a vowel or consonant. I also worked out comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
For verbs, I decided they'd be marked for tense and mood. I originally wanted them to be marked for person and number, but then I decided there would be four different verb conjugations, and since this is a fusional language and not agglutinative, I'd have to create way too many verb endings if I marked person and number as well.
Yes, four verb conjugations. There's a conjugation for verbs ending in vowels, one for verbs ending in nasals, one for verbs ending in /s/, and one for verbs ending in approximants. I could have had separate vowel and consonant conjugations like with nouns, but I thought that would be too boring.
The thing I'll be working on next is the pronouns system, which will probably end up being fairly complicated as the culture attached to this conlang has a pretty strict caste system. After that, it's on to numerals.
After deciding that syllables could end in /t/, I decided to remove that rule. I only had two words will syllables ending in /t/ and I didn't actually like how they looked.
I took the time to work on adjectives and verbs this past week. I decided that adjectives precede nouns, agree in case and number, and are declined like nouns – so they have different declensions depending on if they end in a vowel or consonant. I also worked out comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.
For verbs, I decided they'd be marked for tense and mood. I originally wanted them to be marked for person and number, but then I decided there would be four different verb conjugations, and since this is a fusional language and not agglutinative, I'd have to create way too many verb endings if I marked person and number as well.
Yes, four verb conjugations. There's a conjugation for verbs ending in vowels, one for verbs ending in nasals, one for verbs ending in /s/, and one for verbs ending in approximants. I could have had separate vowel and consonant conjugations like with nouns, but I thought that would be too boring.
The thing I'll be working on next is the pronouns system, which will probably end up being fairly complicated as the culture attached to this conlang has a pretty strict caste system. After that, it's on to numerals.
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