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).