TriCons4

[qiihoskeh]

While working on P1 (the Pao-inspired one), I got the idea of doing a non-concatenative phonology for it from PB's Iljena. I decided it wouldn't go with the morphology I'd aleady outlined for P1, so it became a new project, TriCons4. I've been trying to make it more naturalistic than my previous tri-cons sketches by working out the phonological history of the vowels; this has gone well, but only up to a point: it seems to me it's just an umlaut system with some length gradation and various kinds of pitch-accent. I think to make it work, I'll have to do enough protolanguage for analogy to occur, which is a lot more work.

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[dedalvs.livejournal.com]

Do you have anything we can look at? I'm a big fan of triconsonantal morphology (my first language was a triconsonantal language, and my latest is also).

[qiihoskeh]

I don't have _any_ morphology yet; I have to figure out how much inflection the phonology will support. Most of my notes are on paper, but I've been working on the Phonology/Romanization HTML page, which might be attached to an email when a little further along.

I remember that Megdevi was Arabic-inspired, but which is the latest?

[dedalvs.livejournal.com]

I look forward to seeing it.

The new language is called Aaalis. If you search the conlang archives for that name, you'll see a lengthy discussion about the phonology. I haven't talked about the morphology yet, but it's an attempt to do right by triconsonantal morphology (Megdevi, of course, was far too regular, simple and unrealistic). I haven't been able to work on it very much, but, slow and steady, as they say.

[qiihoskeh]

I vaguely remember seeing that. I'd like to see the morphology when it's ready.

I've made some progress with TriCons4: a proposed writing system and
and outline of the historical development, but no details of the latter yet.