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>I do not think I've ever seen you on the list, so welcome
>to the list! :))
>Please tell us more about your conlangs! :)))
Okay, but you'll not find anything surprising here. They are toys for my own
amusement. The examples below make no attempt to use SAMPA.

Palu f'Thule [word of-people] was an experiment to see if I could create a
workable language. It is primarily SOV with some flexibility, and uses 46
phonemes: 6 pure vowels plus 2 dipthongs, 34 initial consonants, 3 clicks
(indicating aspect), and 3 final stops (indicating tense). Syllables of all
roots are CV. Post positional free phonemes mark subject, object and
questions. The set of prepositions is minimized, and are applied as
prefixes. There are 3 classes of nouns: sentient, living, and nonliving,
plurals of which are indicated by a shift of the final vowel of a root.
Adjectives are treated as verbs. Nouns and verbs are relatively freely
interchangeable, function being determined by marker and/or placement in a
sentence or phrase. Stress falls on the penultimate syllable of the root.
There are no articles.
Example
"Will you give me the book which you wrote?"
"tatapwi hu shato ho wh’li tyofatwi h’."
[write-past-you (modifier) book (object) to-me give-future-you (question)]


Bez Dis’z [people words-belonging-to] was an experiment in agglutination. It
is rigidly SVO, and uses 62 phonemes: 11 vowels plus rhoetic forms thereof,
40 consonants plus 14 consonant clusters, and 3 tones. Syllables of all
roots are CVC or CCVC where CC is a valid cluster. Postpositionals, tenses
and aspects are suffixed to roots. Plurals are indicated by voicing the
initial consonant. Roots can be nouns (normal tone), verbs (high tone) or
modifers (low tone). Pronouns show degree of relationship with the root:
incidental/acquired, frequent/habitual, and intrinsic. The definite article
is reflected in the suffix.
Example
"Will you give me the book which you wrote?"
"ròt setón’l sik pil’n tàng tekáf’sh san."
[askingly you-give-will me-to book-the (modifer end) you-write-complete it]


Nenshar was an experiment to see if an assertion by Jack Vance in Languages
of Pao was viable: an agglutinating language consisting of objects and their
associated states. It is primarily OSV, with some flexibility, and uses 34
phonemes: 5 pure vowels plus 4 diphthongs, and 29 consonants. Syllables of
roots can be CV, VC, CVC, or VCV.
"Will you give me the book which you wrote?"
"koned nepu shunesa akop shuneth konesir shunesev akal."
[book-in-focus pen-in-use hand-your-active time-indefinite-past
hand-my-in-anticipation book-your-in-motion hand-your-in-volition
time-indefinite-future]


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