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Number Vowels

Most grammatical number in Aegir are marked via vowels. these vowels correspond to the seven Grammatical numbers.

Singular: a

Homogenous Dual: e

Heterogeneous Dual: o

Paucal: ə

Even Plural: i

Odd Plural: u

Collective: æ

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Vowels

Closed

u ï ü i

/ï/ is the back unrounded vowel.

/ü/ is the front rounded vowel.

Mid

o ë ə ö e

/ë/ is the back unrounded vowel

/ə/ is the schwa or neutral vowel.

/ö/ is the front rounded vowel

Open

a æ

/æ/ is the front vowel.

All other vowels are pronounced as there IPA counterparts.

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Consonants

Plosives

d k

/d/ and /k/ are there IPA equivalents

Fricatives

f v þ ð s z c j x g h

/þ/ and /ð/ are dental fricatives.

/c/ and /j/ are palatal fricatives.

/x/ and /g/ are velar fricatives.

Nasals

m n ɲ ŋ

/ɲ/ is the labial nasal.

/ŋ/ is the velar nasal.

Approximates

ƿ r y w

/ƿ/ is the bilabial approximate.

/r/ is the alveolar approximate.

/y/ is the palatal approximate.

/w/ is the velar approximate not the labio-velar coarticulate.

Laterals

l λ

/λ/ is the palatal lateral.

All other consonants are pronounced as in English.

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Aegir: Demonstratives

this (thing)

al

el

ol

əl

il

ul

æl

that (thing)

la

le

lo

lə

li

lu

læ

This (person)

ar

er

or

ər

ir

ur

ær

That (person)

ra

re

ro

rə

ri

ru

ræ

Demonstratives are composed of a single consonant and number vowel corresponding to the seven grammatical numbers.

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Aegir: Tense-Aspect-Place marking.

Verbs in Aegir Conjugate for the present, non-present, and further non present tenses; Inchoative, Progressive, and Completive Aspects; and Aquatic and Terrestrial places. the full conjugations in the third person singular subject are as follows:

skadð - He/she/it is killing in water/on land.

skaldð - He/she/it was/will be killing in water.

skardð - He/she/it was/will be killing way back/much later in water.

sƿkadð - He/she/it begin killing in water.

sƿkaldð - He/she/it began/will begin killing in water.

sƿkardð - He/she/it began/will begin killing in water a while back/much later.

skadƿð - He/she/it finished killing in water.

skaldƿð - He/she/it has/will have finished killing in water.

skardƿð - He/she/it has/will have finished killing in water a while back/much later.

skalldð - He/she/it was/will be killing on land.

skarrdð - He/she/it was/will be killing on land a while back/much later.

swkadð - He/she/it begins killing on land.

swkaldð - He/she/it began/will begin killing on land.

swkardð - He/she/it began/will begin killing on land much later.

skadwð - He/she/it am finished killing on land.

skaldwð - He/she/it was/will be finished killing on land.

skardwð - He/she/it was/will be finished killing on land a while back/much later.

Some mnemonics:

non-present and further non-present in the are formed by inserting either /l/ or /r/ in for the aquatic or /ll/ or /rr/ for the terrestrial in P23. The subject third person and object first person number Vowels always comes before and after it respectively.

Inchoative aspect is formed by inserting /ƿ/ for the aquatic or /w/ for the terrestrial after C1. subject second person number vowels always come after it.

Completive aspect is formed by inserting /ƿ/ for the aquatic and /w/ for the terrestrial after C3. object second person number vowels always come after it.

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Aegir: Personal Pronouns

all pronouns are conjugations of the biconsonantal root X-X. number vowels go in P0 for first person, P12 for second person, and P3 for third person.

axx - I/me

xax - you

xxa - he/she/it

exx - we (dual)/two of us (homogenous)

xex - you two/two of you (homogenous)

xxe - those two/two of them (homogenous)

oxx - we (dual)/us two (heterogenous)

xox - you two/two of you (heterogenous)

xxo - those two/two of them (heterogenous)

əxx - a few of us

xəx - a few of you

xxə - a few of them

ixx - we/us (even)

xix - you (plural) (even)

xxi - they/them (even)

uxx - we/us (odd)

xux - you (plural) (odd)

xxu - them (odd)

æxx - we all/all of us

xæx - you all/all of you

xxæ - they all/all of them

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Aegir Consonant Root Overview

This post will serve as a reference for dealing with Aegirs root system. each root is composed of four consonants. to keep track of which morphemes go where, we will be employing this system:

P0 C1 P12 C2 P23 C3 P34 C4 P5

Cs 1-4 are the consonants of the root while Ps 0-5 are positions between said consonants. this should help keep explanations succinct as instead of having to read "put the vowel between the second and third consonant" I can instead say "put /a/ in P23".

This system is inspired by Mark Rosenfelder's system for his conlang Old Skourene.

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Aegir: Verbal Paradigm Idea 1

The idea right now is that, in addition to encoding tense and aspect, which is non-future and future for the former and Inchoative and Terminative in the latter, which I am not sure of keeping for now, the verbs of Aegir conjugate for whether the action happened in water or not, known respectively as Aquatic and Terrestrial.

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Ægir Grammatical "Number" System.

Ægir has a few grammatical numbers that not only mark the amount of a group of the nouns but also the composition of said group. In other words...

Singular applies when there is only one of such noun.

Balanced Dual applies when a pair of something is considered the same or equal.

Biased Dual applies when the two nouns are considered different or not equal.

paucal is for when you have a few of a noun regardless of composition.

Even Plural is for when a group is considered equally distributed in some way.

Odd Plural is for when the group is considered to be unequally distributed.

Collective is used for when referring to all possible types of that noun regardless of composition.

What is considered "balanced" or "biased" or "even" or "odd" is a subjective matter left to the speaker to decide therefore making it telling of what the speaker values through its usage.

In the person marking system these numbers are marked with a vowel that is which out of the eleven that the language has, this system uses seven of. placing the vowel in the place denoting the person in the consonant root (more on that later) determines the number of the person in the subject and/or object of the verb. there is a total of 441 possible combinations of person, number, and case without tense, aspect, mood, nor positional infixes (more on those later).

Overall, I am quite satisfied with the results. (though I was considering having the singular come in different genders. but decided against it as the numbering system with what I consider a unique twist on how nouns are marked for number).

That is all for now. as always, feedback is appreciated.

till next time... ;).

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Ægir conlang ideas 2

Just a thought dump of ideas I recently came up for the Ægir conlang.

The aesthetic of the script could be something like cursive, arabic writing, and/or the Vulcan script. linear with lots of curves and spirals.

The writing system could be an abjad due to the consonant-root system. with a twist. not only will there be a symbol for every consonant, but every pair of consonants as well. this could allow for words to be relatively shorter at the cost of having more glyphs to come up with. this system is inspired by the system employed Reddit-user very-original-user for the conlang Ҧ̄sṱӄ̌ .

Maybe a sort of Verb chaining in the grammar. perhaps when a noun has multiple verbs or something like that. the chaining could be good ol' concatenation or something more exotic like the consonants in the root get shuffled together like a deck of cards then conjugated. this feature is inspired by a conlang of u/Skåulg, Þvo̊o̊lð.

While on the idea of "root-shuffling" maybe there are certain roots that got incorporated into the main verb that now indicate tense-aspect-mood information. this could be used in addition to regular suffixes and vowel alternation.

the first two consonants of the verb root indicate information about the subject while the latter two consonants of the root indicate object. the placement of the vowel in either spot encodes the person while the type of vowel indicates number. e.g. Skadi's name could be sxaðði. where s-x-ð-ð is the root for "to kill". a is the singular vowel and i the plural. both are in the third-person subject and object position respectively in the root. all together sxaðði means "she kills them." I actually like this and will keep it.

this is all I got for now. feedback is appreciated, as always.

thanks for reading. Till next time... ;).

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Arknights: Ægir conlang

Seeing how my recent conlang sketch that takes place in the same universe is so well received, I might as well share my second most realized conlang. this one is for the aquatic goths at the bottom of Tera's oceans.

the language employs a four consonant root system. like any semitic language but with an extra letter. this was shamelessly lifted from a now-missing language of Lichen the Fictioneer's Skjor. because Ægir is such an old norse aesthetic, and skjor has such in its name alone, I just had to incorporate this feature somehow. (To Lichen the Fictioneer, if this post ever finds you, First of all, I hope this feature won't end up copying what yours would be doing, as unlikely as that may be. second of all really big fan of your work, keep it up).

There are no plosives, affricates, clicks, ejectives, implosives, nor any consonants that completely close the airway. the closest to those would be fricatives, of which there will be many of as explained in the tentative section of this post. this will mean that Skadi's name would be more pronounced [Sxa,.ðhi']. I really like the phonaesthetics of this choice and will not be changing it any time soon.

Now that we got the confirmed features out of the way, let's look over some maybe-inserted ones:

I was thinking that what consonants there are will have a three-by-three-way distinction via voicing and articulation. voicing would distinguish voiced, breathy voiced, and voiceless. while articulation would be plain, aspirated, and palatalized. though I'm on the fence about the palatalization.

I am honestly stumped about what to encode morphologically with the aforementioned features listed above. maybe the classic person-number-case seeing as the four-consonant root system and lack of plosives meets my self-imposed quota of "features I have yet to see in a conlang".

this is all I got for this one. hope you found this interesting. as always, your feedback is appreciated. till next time... ;).

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Aegir Master-post

General Progress Updates

Aegir Conlang Initial post

Aegir Conlang ideas 2

Introduction

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Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Morphology

Root Consonant Overview

Grammatical "Number" System

Number Vowels

Tense-Aspect-Place

Personal Pronouns

Demonstratives

Derivational Morphology

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Syntax

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Semantics and Pragmatics

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Sample Texts

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Lexicon

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