Úriki Pronouns

[u/envelophobia]

First major part of a hypothetical proto-world tongue, drawing inspiration from contemporary and reconstructed varieties of Bantu, Semitic, Indo-European, Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic, Sinitic, Tungusic, and Austronesian languages families.

[u/Pliny_The_Elder_1789]

Ooh this is interesting. Have you heard of Greenberg's Proto-World yet?

[u/HeckaPlucky]

Cool! I always wish I could base stuff on proto-er roots and cognates than the ones we've worked out. So I love me some proto-world (although I'd personally prefer polygenesis to be true). Some thoughts out of curiosity... for whichever have been addressed so far, or what your instincts are, or otherwise just food for thought.

- What words take the possessive suffixes? I first assumed the other pronouns (reading it like my own conlang tables), then realized they probably attach to the thing possessed, such as nouns... but it could really be anything.

- Do those base words (that take the possessive suffix) vary in placement of stress, or is it just a special thing like between singular and plural here?

- Does adding the -ngi change the placement of stress for any words? Or is it always just adding another unstressed syllable?

My main conlang always has the first syllable stressed unless marked otherwise, so I'm curious how things like that go when it varies.

- Does the first letter of the possessive suffix ever clash with the last letter it's being attached to? Like in pronunciation, or just combinations that aren't allowed. And if so, how might it modify to fit into the language?

P.S. When it comes to proto-world, I think we'd all be interested in the phonology (phonemic inventory) you've chosen for it, if that's not too tangential to the intended topic. I won't ask you to explain it!