Well, with a lot of help from folks in the skype chat (particularly Salp and Gwaur), I've gotten Kilänki to a stage where I'm happy enough with what I have to share it with everyone on /r/conlangs!
Kilänki is my first conlang, and my goal with it is to largely capture the "feel" of Finnish from an English speaker's perspective - as such, the phonemic inventory is almost identical to Finnish, and about 80% of the vocabulary so far (excluding function words) is derived from Finnish and/or Estonian, though the grammar is extremely different.
Kilänki is a verb-subject-object word order, ergative-absolutive language without any grammatical gender or vowel length (though there is contrastive consonant length). It also has thirteen cases, including one I created myself, the profanitive. The profanitive is how Kilänki grammaticalizes profanity, via an infix (-essatt- or -essatto-, depending on context). It's perfectly analogous to the English absofuckinglutely. Naturally, the profanitive is my favorite case.PROF.
Aspect and tense are marked with particles that go directly after the verb, except for the imperative, which goes before the verb, and as such can be combined with any other particle. To express certain things that don't have their own particles, particles can simply be strung together. As an example, to say "I might not be jumping regularly," one would use the future-negative-uncertain ("I might not") particle tenta (similarity to "tentative" as a small easter-egg of sorts) with the future-habitual particle (I will jump regularly) tjonou to get the sentence "Hÿptä tenta tjonou minä. I think you would gloss this like jump.FUTURE-NEG-UNCERT-HABIT 1st-psn-sing.ABS.
Phonology (including allophony)
So yeah, that's Kilänki! Any questions or comments, I'm happy to answer/respond to! Thank you!
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