Expanding upon the verbal system, I ensure that I provide Degosktiyenk’s verbal system and pronunciation before proceeding to the nouns and more advanced sample sentences.
Sounds
Borrowing from the inspired languages’ phonologies, I made sure to develop Degosktiyenk’s phonology that would figure in the conlang.
The consonants would be described thus:
| Labial | Dental/Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | |||||
| Post-Velarized | Post-Palatalized | Post-Velarized | Post-Palatalized | Post-Velarized | Post-Palatalized | Post-Velarized | Post-Palatalized | |
| Nasal | m | n | nʲ | |||||
| Plosive | b, p | bʲ | d, t | dʲ | j | jʲ | g | gʲ |
| Thrill | r | |||||||
| Affricate | ch | chʲ | ||||||
| Fricative | f | s, sh | sʲ | x | ||||
| Approximant | w, ɥ | l | y | |||||
Since vowels are the most central part of any language, they borrow heavily from Somali phonology. These are the sounds for the vowels:
| Front | Back | |
| Close | i, i: | u, u: |
| Close-Mid | e, e: | o, o: |
| Open | æ, æ: | a, a: |
Continuation Of Verbal Lenition
| Past | Past Continuous | Present | Present Continuous | Future | |
| _d/_t | _t | _tu:x | _d/_t | _du:x | _jʲ |
| _k | _x | _xu:x | _k | _ku:x | _kw |
| _m | _mf | _mfu:x | _m | _mu:x | _mb |
| _n | _ng | _ngu:x | _n | _nu:x | _nk |
| _sh | _s | _su:x | _sh | _shu:x | _x |
| _ts | _y | _yu:x | _ts | _tsu:x | _j |
| _y | _h | _hu:x | _y | _yu:x | _ch |
The aspect and mood of the verbs do not conjugate in terms of affixes, rather through the lenition of their ending consonants.
How Would These Features Play Out?
This expansion results in more sentences I can sample. I also expanded upon the enclitic pronouns, such as the 3rd Person Feminine Plural and the 1st Person Inclusive Plural.
To ta:domfa:bʲ.
[They [the women] did not move all of you here]
I also added “when” which literally means “what time.”
Kwomin baɥicha:sʲ?
[When will you need us here?]
Sources
- Hughes, A.J. (2008). Leabhar Mór Bhriathra na Gaeilge – The Great Irish Verb Book (in Irish and English). Béal Feirste = Belfast: Clólann Bhean Mhadagáin = Ben Madigan Press.
- Liddicoat, Anthony (1994). A Grammar of the Norman French of the Channel Islands The Dialects of Jersey and Sark. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 103–140.
- Nilsson, Morgan. Beginner’s Somali Grammar. University of Gothenburg. 2020.
- Wikipedia.
- Irish conjugation.
- Jèrriais.
- Somali Grammar.