latest conlang problems

[qiihoskeh]

I'm not satisfied with the rhythmic structure; the stress and pitch accents often end up at different places and word sequences are choppy. I may replace the whole phonology if changing some of the verb endings doesn't work. Otherwise, progress has been made; I added verbal nouns, which are also impersonal and an existential copula to go with them. This helps with relativizing indirect objects.

Comments

[dedalvs.livejournal.com]

Can you give some examples of running text? It doesn't even need to mean anything: Just show some plausible phonological forms and mark the stresses.

[qiihoskeh]

Here are a couple sentences I found, with _pitch_ accents marked.

'liburin si'gamix 'kumpiluu ju'hanis. ci'nari ju'hanin si'tabun 'guorin.

I'll see what else I can come up with that I don't like. One that works a little better is:

si'nari 'guorin cix'taba.

[dedalvs.livejournal.com]

Okay. What governs stress placement? Or how does the stress system work? Or is it something different from a stress system?

[qiihoskeh]

Since I used ' for pitch accent, upper case is stress:

'LIburin SI'gamix 'KUMpiluu JU'hanis. ci'NAri JU'hanin SI'tabun 'GUorin.

si'NAri 'GUOrin cix'TAba.

The main problem is the heavy ultima with the light penult. I'm looking at changing SI'gamix to si'GANhi and SI'tabun to si'TAUni (and JU'hanis to ju'HANnis).