As part of a demonstration in his video, specifically on basing a conlang on an existing one, he included himself altering the Arabic phonology in some ways. I decided to modify it with some ideas of mine.
Consonants: m, n, ŋ, b, t, d, k, q, ʔ, ɸ, θ̠, ð̠, s, z, ɕ, ʑ, χ, ʁ, ħ, ʕ, h, r, l, j, w
Vowels: a, aː, ə, ɨː, i, iː, u, uː
Syllables: C(G)V(R)(C)
The G represents glides and the R represents resonants.
Stress: Same as Arabic.
Writing system: ???
Synthesis: ???
Word order: ???
Adjectives: ???
Adpositions: ???
Noun cases: ???
Grammatical number: singular, dual, and plural(Might modify this system.)
Grammatical Gender: ???
Noun classes: ???
Verb classes: ???
Tenses: ???
Aspects: ???
Moods: ???
Interjections: ???
Copula(s): ???
Conjunctions: ???
Valency-changers: ???
Contractions: ???
Negation: ???
Double negation: ???
Question marking: ???
Yes/no questions: ???
Augmentatives and/or Diminutives: ???
Comparatives and similar: ???
Demonstratives: ???
Articles: ???
Persons: ???
Dependency: ???
Obviation: ???
Polypersonal agreement: ???
Finiteness: ???
Polarity: ???
Emphasis: ???
Frequency: ???
Nominalization: ???
Ergativity: ???
Clusivity: ???
Number system: ???
Sets of number words: ???
When Lexis gets around to his videos on conlang grammar and whatnot, I might utilize them for this and other conlangs. Though I could look into Arabic grammar, and modify it via simplifying various areas and adding in features foreign to it. I don't want to recreate Thandian though, so I'd like to be careful.
The tri-consonantal roots of Arabic are significant to the grammar in various ways, so I could utilize a formulaic standard nonetheless, but also add in irregularities for natural flavor. The words would need to be different though, so I don't end up creating an Arabic relex. There is their taxonomy which I could modify as well, as their word for "animal" is limited to land animals, excluding birds and fish, as Lichen would discover.
