I decided to loosen up the stress rules for Shonkasika. While most words of all classes are stressed on the penultimate syllable, I'm allowing for nouns and adjectives to be stressed on the ultima and the penultimate syllable. I decided to modify my orthography and declension rules to account for the changes.
Spelling: If the vowel normally does not have a diacritical mark, it receives an acute accent: a > á If the vowel normally has a circumflex accent, it exchanged it for a grave accent: â > à If the vowel normally has a diaeresis, the vowel is written twice: ä > ää If the vowel is part of the diphthong, the non-high vowel (i.e, not <i/u>) receives the accent mark: ai > ái Declensions and stress types: Most nouns and adjectives are stressed on the penultimate syllable in all forms. The stress shifts to always fall on the penultimate syllable when suffixes are added for declension. Some nouns and adjectives are stressed on the ultima, or last syllable. The stress shifts to always fall on the last syllable, even when syllables are added. Other nouns and adjectives are stressed on the antepenultimate syllable. As suffixes are added, stress shifts to maintain the stress on the antepenultimate syllable.
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I made a phonological change to Shonkasika, differentiating series of identical vowels. This was always true for /i/ and /u/, but I added this for the other vowels. The result is sometimes a diphthong:
/ii/ > /je/ /uu/ > /wo/ /ee/ > /ej/ /oo/ > /ow/ /aa/ > /æa/ /ææ/ > /æa/ /øø/ > /øe/ /yy/ > /yo/ This changes two existing words: *saamo > säamo noodle *hinoo > hinóu respect I added a vocative particle, tsau, used with the nominative case: Deros tsau! O man! I also added a particle (determiner, something else?), prau, used for exclamations (also used with the nominative case): Deros prau! What a man! I have been participating in Lexember, when conlangers make a new word for each day of December, in various places online. I am going to put them on my blog as well.
1. ishdax, ishdaxa /iʃdax/, /iʃdaxa/ inter.; particle "yes indeed" [emphatic] from ish- intensive prefix + dax "yes". 2: ruminu /ruminu/ v. "to shine (brightly), to be bright" from rumi, "bright" 3: foa /foa/ n. dew 4: föska /føska/ n. dust 5. zhoryos /ʒorjos/ n. eagle 6: hirovnas n. hen (< hiros n. chicken) 6: hiroskos n. rooster, cock (< hiros n. chicken) 7: igzo n. lemon, sour fruit 7: neizmo n. sweet fruit 8: yorvizgo n. lime 8: igza n. lemon tree 8: dovo n. chair 9: pokom adv./postp. down (< po adv./postp. above) 10: pesi n. type, class 11. nushto /nuʃto/ n. shower (of water, a liquid) 11. nushtonu v. tr. to shower, to water 11. nushtodathi /nuʃtodaθi/ v. intr. to take a shower, to shower oneself 11. nushtodza n. shower (room) 12. hörra /høra/ n. mush, puree, mash, sauce 12. belohörra n. applesauce 12. ridahörra n. mashed potatoes 13. shonkova n. mountain range, from shonka mountain + -ove collective suffix (Thanks @HoskhMatriarch of CBB for the inspiration!) 13. duza n. cave 13. tokonu v. to cover 13. gimu pl. gimui n. seashell 13. masi pl. masie n. eyelash 13. toko pl. tokoi n. cover 14: zvole adj. warm 15: sfiyo n. mist 16: kserra n. herb, spice 17: guxe adj. poor 18: yekunu v. to do willingly 19: broganenu v. to predict, to forecast (etym. "before tell") 20: bromatanu v. to prevent (etym. "before stop") 21: droske adj. ugly, unattractive 22: hokradenu v. to think about (applicative + "think") 23: dweni adj. soft 24: hokredenu v. to think about 24: honuñanu v. to taste like 24: horeznanu v. to smell like I added some detail to Shonkasika's intonation and phonology. Two identical vowels in sequence are not coalesced into a long vowel, but are pronounced with contrasting pitch; if one of the vowels is stressed, it is pronounced with a higher pitch. Otherwise, the second vowel is pronounced with a lower pitch.
I'm using an acute accent for higher pitch and and a grave accent for lower pitch. Let me know if I should represent it a different way! saamo /sa'.á.mo/ noodle (nom. indef. sg.) saamomo /sa.à'.mo.mo/ of (a) noodle (gen. indef. sg.) I also introduced a passive verb with no active form: goteli to be born |
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