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In my holiday tradition, I am composing a conlang sketch for a friend based on the visual and phonetic structure of her name. This is a game that stretches my intellect and provides limits that I cannot escape by the wave of a hand. After rejecting a pure Semitic structure and the C+basic V structure of Adunaic, I settled on the following schema: Roots are consonants or solid blocks of consonants. All grammatical variation is carried by a. vocalic superfixes in which the vowel is the same in both parts b. vocalic suffixes either between the root and the second part of the superfix or after the second part of the superfix. Further emotional and intonal information is carried by consonantal superfixes which surround the vocalic superfix and the vocalic suffix. Here the consonants do not have to be the same. Thus the structure is: A = vocalic superfix B = vocalic suffix C = consonant or consonant cluster ACBA - verbal ACAB - nominal Either of these patterns may become D, F = other consonants; D, C, and F may or may not be the same. DACBAF DACABF Thus: -l- ROOT: valley -ili- the valley (Definite Singular) ilia the valley (Subjective Case) m-ilia-s the valley (Subjective Case)! milias (Subjective) milies (Prepositional) miliis (Possessive) milios (Partitive) milius (Objective) Or verbally: -mpr- ROOT: shine -impri- will shine (future) imprui you (sg) will shine mimprui you (sg) will shine! Like vowels (ampraa I shine) are written double, but treated as a single long vowel. ampraa I shine amprua you (sg) shine amprea he/she/it/they shine(s) ampria we shine amproa you (pl) shine I am presuming that clusters such as -mpr- once had a vowel, but strong initial stress on the prefixed vowel of the superfix reduced it to schwa and then eliminated it.