#malakawi

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you know what i'm a coward and i'm changing malakawi's /a i o y/ to a simple /a e i o u/. i find it difficult to be satisfied with small consonant and vowel inventories, i need more variety

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ough i think i might make a syllabary/logography type writing system for malakawi but just thinking about the amount of work thats gonna take is making me dizzy

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i'm not sure if malakawi truly counts as polysynthetic, i don't think i can be the judge of that, but it is certainly far up on that side of the morphosyntactic alignment spectrum, and it basically kind of happened on accident. at first i just wanted polypersonal agreement, then i played around with noun incorporation, and suddenly i'm at the point where an 11 word english sentence can be expressed with only 4 words in malakawi

[velaraffricate]

oh my new conlang is coming along so well. grins evilly

[velaraffricate]

my new conlang has a name, malakawi! mala means tongue or language, and kawi means... well. it'd be translated into english as "our", but it's a bit more complicated than that.

some nouns such as body parts and kinship terms are inherently possessed and have the possessive clitic affixed onto them. but there's no outright genitive, instead the locative gets used for alienable and the instrumental/comitative for inalienable possession. if you were to say "our fish", which is alienable, you'd say lyga kallos instead of *lyga kawis (the -s is a nominalizer which must be affixed onto the clitic so it can stand alone).

also, kawi is the first person plural - but besides the singular there's also a dual (2), a paucal (3-10) and a global plural (all). so kawi is the default, but there are also situations where the singular malakaxi, dual malakixi or paucal malakyxy would be more appropriate.

[velaraffricate]

for my last like 3 or 4 projects ive always thought "man this is my best conlang yet, how am i ever gonna improve on this" which is a good sign i think