Old Sumrë has no stress as the stress of Proto-Sumric developed into the pitch accent.
My own first language has pitch also. Like Old Sumrë it developed from stress but unlike Old Sumrë it developed two different possible patterns.
No worries, this is a place for sharing conlangs afterall ;)
Well spotted! Old Sumrë has pitch accent where the high pitch falls on the penultimat syllable except for definite nouns which always places the high pitch on the last syllable of the root e.g dwísga "ocean" > dwisgá "the ocean"
The only "domestic" animals that the Sumnë have are dogs. When Old Sumrë as spoken dogs had only been kept for several millenia so they still resemble wolves a lot. Dogs are seen as very important in Sumric culture as they are useful for hunting, pulling sleighs over tundras, keeping watch out for large predators (humans aren't at the top of the food chain!) and also companionship. Dogs mostly stay with the families that they were born in and are rarely given new owners except to family friends or new families that don't have dogs. As such they are seen as inalienable.
Pet crows aren't domestic as each one is taken from a next as a wild hatchling and raised by a human. The bond between crow and trainer lasts for life and crows are never traded or passed on and they are trained to be loyal only to one human. If the trainer dies then the crow goes back to the wilderness.
Any other animal is alienable. The animist Sumnë believe that every being is its own soul, especially wild animals. Hunted animals are alienable as the meat is typically shared with the hunter's family.
Thank you :). Old Sumrë is a highly synthetic language that has fusional properties in its nouns, adjectives/adverbs and verbs but tiny hints of agglutination in its mood marking enclitics. The underlying word order is SVO yet a form of topicalisation uses an OSV word order (although this is restricted to women as topicalisation differs between men and women). The verbs conjugate for person, number and tense of which there are "far past, near past, last night, yesterday, present, immediate future, near future and far future". I don't have any registers that mark politeness but I have a spiritual enclitc -olc which can attach to verbs if the subject is divine or is taking part in a ritual of sorts e.g sianá eménsolc "the spirit is" vs arsté émens'"the mouse is".
There are four genders and ten noun declensions. The genders are "Buzzard, Deer, Animate and Inanimate". Originally in Proto-Sumric there was only the animate and inanimate genders and the buzzard and deer genders split off from them. Of note is the fact that the Buzzard and Deer genders are purely phonologically based as a noun ending in a vowel is a deer noun and a noun ending in a consonant is a buzzard noun. Yet the animate and inanimate genders are purely semanticslly based on whether the noun is a living being or not. Animate/inanimate nouns tend to appear irregular on the surface with telg "shrew" taking the plural télhë but these alterations were due to sound changes that occured way way back in Proto-Sumro-Naukl.
I have a WIP site which goes into much more detail :) https://sites.google.com/site/upwolast/golden-age-of-malomanan/old-sumree
Thank you! I have a site for the whole culture including the language. I'' still in the process of transferring my data onto it so it is yet an incomplete site.
https://sites.google.com/site/upwolast/golden-age-of-malomanan/mythology/creation-and-settlement



conlangAnother recording in Old Sumrë: Part two of the Four Settlements.Dec 01, 2016 at 7:49 PM