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velaraffricate · 7 months ago

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another really cool thing: the plural suffix -saa ends up looking like an infix in some cases due to vowel deletion and metathesis. *inqwa, *inqwasaa > ivə, izva; *kwunkaa, *kwunkaasaa > kuga, kuzga; *khaari, *khaarisaa > kaale, kaasla. seeing irregularity arise spontaneously as a natural consequence of sound changes is neverending fun. i spend so much time just running random words thru the algorithm and seeing how they change with different affixes

#thats one thing that always bothered me abt my previous langs... how regular everything was #sometimes id throw in a random irregular verb or two but its not something you can fake convincingly i dont think #without actually evolving the conlang from a proto lang #like at this point theres more irregularity than not; ill probably have to put it thru a regularization phase at some point #at least for the most uncommon words #like how happened with a lot of english verbs #ramblings

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