Quiet Words

TCR4 is starting to shape up. I don't know if I like the shape though. I'm pretty sure it's a failure as triconsonantal root language, which means that nobody will be interested in it. Here's a list of forms, anyways:
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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.

I'll continue to edit this.
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TriCons is a constructed language sketch, still very sketchy. Some features are:
* Most roots are triconsonantal, with stem vowels used for inflections.
* Noun phrases distinguish proximal from distal, and these are cross-referenced on the verb.
* Direct and Inverse voices rather than Active and Passive, at least in non-finite forms.

Links to the other entries:
Phonology
Thematic Morphology
Temporal Morphology
Actant Morphology
Pronouns and Determiners
General Syntax
Auxiliaries
Interrogatives
Comparison Syntax

These pages are still being updated.

I'll continue to edit this post. It covers case suffixes, personal affixes, and additional voices.
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I'll continue to edit this post. The phonetic symbols are some version of CXS.
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I will continue to edit this post.
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