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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
===Real Life History=== | ===Real Life History=== | ||
Kaidu is currently three years old as of August 2015. I started making this language when an older language of mine died. Kaidu is used mainly as a personal artlang, there is currently no specific conworld for it, but I use it in a number of stories. I have drawn inspiration from several languages, namely English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and some Bantu languages. Conlanging has been my hobby for many years. Kaidu’s grammar is simple for English speakers; the hardest parts are the verbs and adjectives because they are different from English. Kaidu’s syllable structure is simply (C)V(C). Kaidu has a lot of the basic consonants, but it has some unique consonants as well. For instance, it has prenasalized consonants that can occur in initial positions. I have designed Kaidu’s lexicon to be somewhat more minimal than English. Kaidu words are created in the style of Chinese compounds. | Kaidu is currently three years old as of August 2015. I started making this language when an older language of mine died. Kaidu is used mainly as a personal [[Artistic language|artlang]], there is currently no specific conworld for it, but I use it in a number of stories. I have drawn inspiration from several languages, namely English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and some Bantu languages. Conlanging has been my hobby for many years. Kaidu’s grammar is simple for English speakers; the hardest parts are the verbs and adjectives because they are different from English. Kaidu’s syllable structure is simply (C)V(C). Kaidu has a lot of the basic consonants, but it has some unique consonants as well. For instance, it has prenasalized consonants that can occur in initial positions. I have designed Kaidu’s lexicon to be somewhat more minimal than English. Kaidu words are created in the style of Chinese compounds. | ||
===Fictional Settings=== | ===Fictional Settings=== | ||
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Orthography in bold. | |||
====Consonant Allophony==== | ====Consonant Allophony==== | ||
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! style="" |Near-close | ! style="" |Near-close | ||
| | | [ɪ] | ||
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| [ʊ] | | [ʊ] | ||
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Rising diphthongs all are realized with the second element as nonsyllabic: [aɪ̯], [oɪ̯], [uɪ̯]. | Rising diphthongs all are realized with the second element as nonsyllabic: [aɪ̯], [oɪ̯], [uɪ̯]. | ||
Falling diphthongs work similarly, the second element is also usually nonsyllabic, but the realization of the /i/ in the diphthong depends on the preceding consonant. In most cases, it will be [ɨ], but in a few others it is different. /t/ /f/ have the /i/ be [j] and the second element is syllabic. With /ð̞/ the first element remains as [i] and the second element is nonsyllabic. | Falling diphthongs work similarly, the second element is also usually nonsyllabic, but the realization of the /i/ in the diphthong depends on the preceding consonant. In most cases, it will be [ɨ], but in a few others it is different. /t/ and /f/ have the /i/ be [j] and the second element is syllabic. With /ð̞/ the first element remains as [i] and the second element is nonsyllabic. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
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====Personal Pronouns==== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
! | |||
!singular | |||
!plural | |||
!Possessive | |||
!Plural Possessive | |||
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! First person | |||
| ka | |||
| kar | |||
| kai | |||
| kari | |||
|- | |||
! Second person | |||
| mpu | |||
| mpur | |||
| mpui | |||
| mpuri | |||
|- | |||
! Third person | |||
| se | |||
| ser | |||
| sei | |||
| seri | |||
|} | |||
====Nouns==== | ====Nouns==== | ||
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====Derivational morphology==== | ====Derivational morphology==== | ||
===Syntax=== | ===Syntax=== | ||
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