Re: Gramaticalised phonology

I dunno about natlangs and I would be interested to know as well.
In my conlang (like in several other engineered langs) the sounds are
divided into the ones used to make the grammatical tags (the single or
combined vowels a, i, u and the sound [tS]) and the ones used to make the
root words (all other CV sounds). This is designed to know exactly were
words start and end--which is actually badly needed given the phonology :-)

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Peter Bleackley wrote:
> Has anyone else created a conlang, or is anyone aware of a natlang, in
> which certain phonemes or phonological features can occur only in
> particular grammatical contexts? This happens quite a lot in Magzhelyagon,
> which, as I've mentioned before, is intended to be an unpronounceable
> polysynthetic monstrosity. An example is the evidentiality system - the
> dubious evidentiality is denoted by all the stops in the word regarded as
> representing doubtful information becoming prenasalised, or a prefix [nde]
> if there are no suitable stops, and the certain evidentiality is indicated
> by lateralisation of all fricatives in the word representing certain
> information, or a prefix [Ke] if there are no suitable fricatives.
> Prenasalised stops and lateral fricatives do not occur elsewhere.