Thread:KnaboKnehtaz/@comment-36631690-20180913122452/@comment-28254399-20180914203818

Greetings, Animus745!

I do not about Dawetidish (Dávḕtʹə́dŋà) until you've introduced that to me. However, the language is only 4% constructed, so I can't tell much. The sound inventory looks good; & the fact that one letter can stand for several sounds, like V for [w][ʋ][β] suggests that these three sounds are of each other, still, without any examples to show me the environments, I can't work out Dawetidish sound-laws.

From the table in the Grammar section, I think Dawetidish is an isolating language without inflections & derivatives. So Dawetidish vocabulary will have a vocabulary rich of function words (adpositions, free standing tense words, etc.). However, those languages actually work in real-life, like Vietnamese & Chinese.

(well, Vietnamese & Chinese actually descend from proto-languages which actually produced new words by means of derivation: e.g. Proto-Austroasiatic t͡ʃɛ:ʔ > Vietnamese xáy meaning ow a rare dialectal word "to dig, to hollow" > reduplication t͡ʃ.t͡ʃɛ:ʔ > xay to grind & with r nominative infix t͡ʃ.rɛ:ʔ > ɟɛ: > chày "pestle").

Also, QHsD has not revealed anything about Dawetidish syntax yet, so I will await further updates!

Again, many thanks!