I'm interested a lot in linguistics and want to invent languages for fun. So I decided to do a journal about the inventionprogress of my first language, Linkawit, as I call it, so it will be more fun.
Basicly I'm going to post any new ideas, vocabulary, gramatical rules, etc. for it in here when I come up with them and hope for criticism and suggestions for improvement by the other forum members.
The people who speak it: I'm imagining it spoken by nomadic tribes with low level of technology in a warm, flat savanna region with a lot of dangerous animals and plants. So kinda like the native north american tribes, and I'm also trying to lean it at their languages a bit.
Phonology:
vowels: i = close front; e = close-mid near-front; a = open central; o = close-mid back
no diphtongs, an h after another consonant means that it is esperated
consonants: b = voiced bilabial plosive; p = unvoiced bilabial posive; d = voiced alveolar plosive;
t = unvoiced alveolar plosive; g = voiced velar plosive; k = unvoiced velar plosive;
s = unvoiced alveolar fricative; z = voiced alveolar fricative; h = unvoiced glottal fricative;
j = palatal approximant; w = labiodental approximant
S-O-V word order, no articles, adjectives come after nouns, kinda agglutanive, the syllable are formed: cv, cvc, ccv or ccvc
Personal pronouns:
1st person singular: a
2nd person singular: si
3rd person singular: po for dangerous/unpleasent/bad things (I),
de for safe/pleasant/good things (II),
wa for persons/pets/neutral things (III)
1st person plural: thisa
2nd person plural: thisi
3rd person plural: thipo (I), thide (II), thiwa (III)
demonstrative pronouns: zipo for a near bad thing
zepo for a far bad thing
zide for a near good thing
zede for a far good thing
ziwa for a near neutral thing
zewa for a far neutral thing
for the plurals just as the prefix thi at the beginning, like in the personal pronouns