Englіsh

Not to be confused with English.

English is a conlang created by User:Coppersalts for CCC3.

Phonology

English (c.1550-) is notorious for its irregular spelling which is why there have been many a spelling reform suggested for it that change the spelling to more closely match the pronunciation. But few have been bold enough to suggest the opposite; to change pronunciation to match spelling. So that's what I'll be doing with this conlang.

Consonants

English's consonants are:

	Labial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal	m		n
Plosive	p	b	t	d	c		k	g	q
Fricative	f	v	s	z					x		h
Trill			r
Approximant	w		l		j

Vowels

English's vowels are:

	Front		Back
Close	i	y	u
Mid	e		o
Open	a

You may notice the distinct lack of special characters in these tables and that's no accident. These are just all the sounds represented by Latin characters in IPA.

Phonotactics

English has no strict phonotactics. It can have up to four vowels in a row in words like "queue" and up to four consonants in a cluster in words like "strength".

Stress

Stress is placed on the syllable with the coolest vowel (based on the ordering below). If a word has two syllables with the same nucleus, the nuclei must battle it out to decide who becomes the primary stress. The winner is not determined systematically and every word like this just has a stress pattern you have to memorize (I've decided them randomly since they're evenly matched).

y > e > o > i > a > u

Morphology

English affix spelling rules are applied.

Nouns

English has 5 numbers, 7 classes, and 2 cases.

Number	Affix
Negatival	co-
Singular	en-
<27631338	de-
>27631338	non-
Distributive	ante-

I'll probably want to workshop these classes.

Class	Suffix
Masculine	-dom
Feminine	-ify
Neuter	-ly
Rock (object)	-ent
Rock (music)	-ious
Inanimate	-tion
Space Rock	-ure

Case	Suffix
Ergative	-ible
Accusative	-ic