So I Invented Another Language...

Yep, I did it again... | Start speaking a new language in 3 weeks with Babbel 🎉. Get up to 55% OFF your subscription here: https://www.Babbel.com/klein Vowel harmony video:    • Vowel Harmony Is Very Interesting (In My O...   Previous Dycratus video:    • So I Invented a Fantasy World...   Thanks to my patrons! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=73482298 [Note 1] We’re talking on the phonemic level here, bear in mind – Arabic vowels have loads of different realisations depending on the surrounding environment, as is the case in most languages with small vowel inventories, but still [u] in Zollbara Archipelagan is a true gap in the vowel space: there are no allophones which result in this realisation. [Note 2] Sentences without objects tend to be ordered SV, however, and in certain subordinate clauses the word order goes a bit crazy. [Note 3] Originally, Group 7 looked like Group 6, but the one form that still had a short vowel also got lengthened, so there’s no vowel gradation anymore. G7 now always has a long vowel in the stem. The -ole suffix, an agentive marker, is spelt -ole in the singular indefinite but pronounced -ōle (thus the romanisation -ǒle); the other forms are both spelled and pronounced -ōle. [Note 4] There are some counterexamples which suggest that o was also affected by vowel harmony, like “ŕeppo”, which comes from “ŕapponil” (could be analysed as analogous to the chain reaction in “Peteri”), but in most cases, vowel harmony was blocked by /o/. /j/ also sometimes triggered front gradation, but sometimes not: “qaj” and “taj” didn’t become “qej” and “tej”. Maybe because of the specific phonology of being single syllable words with this /j/ in coda? [Note 5] Doubling of the consonants in the “-a”-ending, from “-at”, was produced by analogy with the doubling before the “-it”-ending in Late Larak, when the rule against overheavy syllables had already ceased to be productive in the language. Thus, group 2A also does not undergo depalatal gradation. Resources used: Arabic Varieties Map-2023 by Goran_tek-en. Available from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... License: CC BY-SA 4.0 Kluender, K., Diehl, R. & Wright, B. (1988). Vowel-length differences before voiced and voiceless consonants: an auditory explanation. Journal of Phonetics, v. 16 (2), p. 153–169. The conlang presented in this video, its constructed script, its history within the world of Dycratus, any further facts about Dycratus, and the script and content of this video are created by myself, and are therefore my intellectual property and subject to Copyright. The digitalisation of the script and the maps of the fantasy land of Dycratus were created by kvd102 – this is his intellectual property and is also subject to Copyright. YOU MAY REFER TO THE CONTENT OF THIS VIDEO IF YOU WISH, AND USE THE SCRIPTURE, AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT TRY TO PASS ANYTHING OFF AS YOUR OWN. Written and created by K Klein Art by kvd102 #linguistics #language #conlang