Conlang Year: Week 4
Time marches on! We're through week four, at this rate, January will be over in another few days! Once again, the prompts can be found here.
Day 22 - Create five proto-forms for flora
The Jewelsea has a lot of flora that resembles that of earlier periods on earth, like tree-sized horsetails and abundant cycads.
horsetail - uzutu
Reed - tsɛɪ
conifer - quŋ.yɾ.ɪ
fruit tree - θaɪ.a
cycad - ʒɪt.ym.pat
algae - ʒɛɪ.qɪb
mushroom - ʌʃ.ɛɪ.ap
Day 23 - Create five proto-forms for fauna
I decided to start with the animals that farmers along the river are most likely to deal with. Pigs are generally not farmed in the river valleys where Thekkish first developed and cultivation of avians is dicey due to the sapient birds.
fish - uɢ.ɾuq
worm - ŋxa
flying arthropod - ʒʌð
crawling arthropod - aɪ.ʃɪz
goat/sheep - ʃβuŋ
cattle - ɢʌɸ
bird - βax
Day 24 - Create five basic transitive verb proto-forms
These seemed like some good daily activities for those engaged in farming.
to cook - sɸɪt
to build - ŋyʃ
to fight - aɸ.ʎaɢ
to plant - an.ɪ
to harvest - aɪt.βɾad
to flood - ɪx.qyʒ
Day 25 - Create five basic intransitive verb proto-forms
Once again, these are common daily occurrences.
to walk - βɛɪ
to sleep - syβ
to rain - saɪ.ʃaɪ
to laugh - xax
to stand - sɸɪt
to sit - ɸɪð
to lie down - pɾɛɪ
Day 26 - Explore assimilatory sound changes
I'm definitely going to be using voicing assimilation. It's hard to put voiced and unvoiced consonants next to one another without accidentally shifting them to match, so I'm just going to do my best to make sure that it doesn't happen.
Day 27 - Explore deletion/reduction sound changes
I don't think I'm going to use deletion sound changes - I like the sounds of ɸ, θ, and x, the weak fricatives currently in Thekkish and I particularly enjoy sounds ending in x.
Day 28 - Explore fortifying sound changes
I like how terminal v sounds become f in Polish, so I think Thekkish will often devoice the terminal consonant of a word.