User:Meschigene/Sandbox

The sound changes triggered by grammatical processes go from right to left - that is, from the end of the word to the beginning. Might lead to some wacky ablaut in Almikantian, e.g. (to be done) Ablaut triggered only in "simple" words? So kantī "island" > kinštū "island, islander" (adj.), but Almikantī > Almikanštū. *r changed to an alveolar/retroflex (probs will be retroflex after all) approximant that has a tendency to palatalize like it invented the very concept of palatalization and went fuckin' kopi luwak because of that. *rr changed to an uvular trill, because y nawt. The dative case is merged with accusative in Almikantian into one case. The instrumental case, ubiquitous in MK, was borrowed from an outside source. Might introduce definiteness, too. Which will become the lazy nerd's demonstrative pronoun. No less. Sound change time. PK: sīmà > A: sima > simā > səmā > smā > zmā || > zəma? - C (-voiced) > C (+voiced) /#_V, as illustrated by džaule (MK čavlle) ↳ MK: sīma But PK: sîmam > A: sìmam ↳ MK: sīmam /i:/ > /i/ > /ɪ/ > (-stress) /ə/ ! /i i:/ > /i:/ /_# -- /ə/ > 0 /C1_C2; I'll make a list of permitted consonant clusters eventually. /e e:/ > /œ/ /_# Proto-Kulashian didn't have a marked genitive, natch. Maybe it wasn't even marked by clitics. Indefinite genitive in Almikantian will be marked with a glottal stop in singular and unmarked in other numbers, while definite genitive is formed by strapping on a good ol' possessive clitic to the indefinite genitive. *almi is a nominative and there's no lengthening. Still not sure about the meaning of *almi, some gem maybe? Gem in general? Originally it was "jet", but since it (well, it's MK form, all) was technically the first Kulashian word I conceived that started with /a/, I want to use it in the alphabet, and I'm not sure what the letter will look like. So the declension table for the word zmā, "cat" will probably look something like this: Singular   (Dual)     Plural Nominative  zmā         (sìmat)    sìmam Def. nom. sìmā       (sìmāt)    sìmmō Genitive    sìma'       (sìmat)    sìmam Def. gen.   sìmaī       (zmàtī)    sìmalmī Oblique     sìme        (zmat)     zmam Def. obl. sìmiō      (zmiat)    zmìmō The definite forms have a secondary stress on the suffix. sìmmō < sìmimō < (ablaut) < sìmamō The forms starting with zm- originally had the stress on a syllable other than the first. Add some vowel reduction and assimilation and you'll get some funky fresh shiitake mushrooms.