First things first:

cósecúre-jen-i      rónata-sa       tese        reti-waicőmai
consecuar-lang-INS  write\IRR-PSV   seemingly   more-heavy
What is written in Consecuan sounds more important.

The height of wit, I know. (New grammar point, though: seþ and seis, i.e. ‘it’, are often left out, as they are here.)

For some reason I’ve got another urge to make some damn languages (though I’m sure it’ll be gone by tomorrow), and since its wiki page just stops in the middle of a section, Consecuan is as good a candidate as any. (Also, I have a few ideas, which I find helps.)

The main problem I have is the same as everyone, I imagine: not enough words. It takes a surprising amount of effort to come up with something that doesn’t sound absolutely retarded (though maybe that part’s just me), so I get like three words in and just give up. (A word generator is cheating, and at any rate it’d be far more effort than it’s worth to come up with one that gives good results. Still, it could be interesting I suppose?)

So yeah. I’m probably not going to actually make many Consecuan-related posts here, since that’s what the wiki’s for, but I just felt like mentioning it.

Edit: the wiki actually has some sort of a logo now (as does here). Let’s see if anyone notices. (I already know that answer to that, but still.)

For some reason, my host’s MySQL server keeps dying recently.

Also, index.php had the wrong permissions until just now which stopped it from being displayed. Which was strange.

edit: umask! :fist:

Edit: It is ‹ae› now, I’m told.

Just a bit of phonology for now. Also note that the entire motivation for this language’s existence is so that Scaermongaer¹ is pronounced as it should be: as scaremonger. :toot:

Vowels

Edit: I did write a diagram generator after all.

/ɑ ɛ e i o u/ are, um, what they say they are when stressed. When unstressed, though, the first three become [ə], /i/ becomes [ɪ], and /o u/ become [ʌ]. The vowel with the group’s primary stress is slightly longer. There are no diphthongs (well, there are, but they use /j v/ as the glide).

The vowels are spelt ‹a ae² e i o u›.

Consonants

/p b t d k ɡ f v s z x j m n l r/, spelt as the IPA, except /x/ is ‹c›.

/r/ is actually [ɾ] but the former is easier to type. :v At the end of a syllable before another consonant, it drops out; if the syllable is stressed it lengthens the vowel more, otherwise it’s just silent.

The plosives are actually realised as, e.g., /p b/ = [pʰ p].

After /s/, /f v x/ become [p w k]: /sk/ = [skʰ], /sx/ = [sk]. /n/ becomes /ŋ/ at the end of a syllable before one of /k ɡ/, or at the end of a word. /v j/ become [ʊ̯ ɪ̯] at the ends of syllables.

/sj xj fj sr/ are [ʃ], /tj kj/ are [tʃ], /dj ɡj/ are [dʒ], and /zj vj/ are [ʒ]. /lj/ is just [l].

Syllable structure

If you like regexes, then assuming $C contains the consonants and $V the vowels it’s /s?$C[jv]?$V([jv][ns]?|vl|[nrls]|v?m$)?/. If not:

• Maybe /s/
• A consonant
• One of /j v/ or neither
• A vowel
• Optionally one of /j v n r l s/, or /jn vn js vs vl/
  • At the end of a word, this also includes /m/ and /vm/

You can’t have a labial followed by /v/, nor can you have any of /vv jv jj lv rv rj/ in the same syllable. (/vj/ is fine though.) /s/ can’t be followed by voiced plosives or /s z/.

More to come, perhaps. But I have more than enough for Scaermongaer: /sxɛrmongɛr/ = [skɛːmʌŋgə]. ^_^