I’ve already said that I was creating Maanxmusht to borrow words into Nyjichun, but I was actually making two conlangs. The other is Tsako, which is vaguely Finnish inspired, at least for the phonology.
Tsako and Maanxmusht are what’s called “naming languages” – conlangs with just enough vocabulary and grammar to create names. Tsako has less than 250 words – some of those created just to show how to use the couple of derivational prefixes that I’ve invented.
Tsako has paucal and plural, phonotactics that strictly limit what can appear where while still being CVC, and vowel harmony. I really like how the plurals turn out.
You can see all of it on my Neocities site. Here are some words I especially like:
- nimerøl – to bake, which forms ɯtinimerø, a baker
- iirikogyl – to barter
- mørmøkottɑæd – ceramic, βottɑæd – clay (β changes to k medially), ætekottɑæd – potter
- ʦøpɣø – blanket, paucal – ʦøpɣɑt, plural – ʦøpɔkkɔ, which changes to tsepe in early Nyji
- to give – ɑɑreel, charity – ɑɑree
- salt – øʣ
- to shine – peippel
I could pick a dozen more, but how about I stop there.
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