I had this idea while watching Chopped. You get four features that you have to incorporate into a language within a time limit. Give the judges a tasty sketch grammar and sample text, or you will be Elided.
I made this Google form for ingredient ideas. Feel free to submit as many ingredients as you want! (check the existing responses sheet first, also linked in the form, or click "Show All Ingredients" above, to see if your idea is already there)
I tried an example basket, took about 30 minutes, so this is totally doable!
Basket:
- culture/vocabulary involving magic/spirits
- ejectives
- extensive syllabic consonants
- synchronic dissimilation
Text: The witch told her spirit friends to curse the man.
Gloss: night-like-woman-agt spirit-like-heart-comit-nmzr-pl-obl man-pat night-like-air-obl give-nmzr-say-perf
-like = kn̩; agt = k'u; pat = ts'i; obl = m̩; nmzr = kr̩
initial stress
dissimilation rules:
N > ŋ / _C[labial]
N > m / _C[non-labial]
r > ʀ / _C[coronal]
V[high] > V[mid] / _C0V[high]
night-like-woman-agt
mr̩-kn̩-ton-k'u
> mr̩km̩tomk'u
spirit-like-heart-comit-nmzr-pl-obl
ts'an-kn̩-sur-ŋi-kr̩-t-m̩
> ts'amkm̩sorŋikʀ̩tm̩
man-pat
p'i-ts'i
> p'ets'i
night-like-air-obl
mr̩-kn̩-pu-m̩
> mr̩kŋ̩pum
give-nmzr-say-perf
k'm̩-kr̩-par-k
> (no dissimil)
Final text:
mŕ̩km̩tomk'u ts'ámkm̩sorŋikʀ̩tm̩ p'éts'i mŕ̩kŋ̩pum k'ḿ̩kr̩park
The witch told her spirit friends to curse the man.