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by Solarius
19 Mar 2024 00:49
Forum: Translations
Topic: From the journal
Replies: 18
Views: 9707

Re: From the journal

Hayakan: Yeirang he kurayeu , friend REL be.loved "Friend who (I) love," I peul dem tiyari eir yiwo heu khinne ikupha . NEG CAUS1-see 1p.SG diary this 3p-DAT somebody NEG NEG-be.anytime I have never shown this journal to anyone. Khowa alanna dem, ibuna dem he eunpaphe heu yaya . after go-N...
by Solarius
15 Mar 2024 06:43
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber
Replies: 27
Views: 836

Re: The Great Exposition of Ruykkarraber

This looks quite interesting; I always have a soft spot for languages with /p/ as a gap (as opposed to /g/ or other common stops.) What's the deal with these nominalized verbs? --------- On the Mark Rosenfelder stuff, I'm always appreciative of his work. Verdurian may be a Euroclone, but it's a self...
by Solarius
14 Mar 2024 19:41
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: A Sketch of a New Language
Replies: 3
Views: 214

Re: A Sketch of a New Language

This is really cool looking, and I definitely appreciate a more morphosyntactically-oriented approach to making a language -- lots of conlangers, myself included, often get wrapped up in angsting over minor phonological details.

How do the numeral classifier suffixes work?
by Solarius
07 Mar 2024 19:35
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Replies: 570
Views: 155359

Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

More of a random idea: morphophonology, but whatever. This is something I've been working on for my latest sketch. Inventory is pretty simple: /p t ts tɬ k q/<p t ts tl k q> /s ɬ h/<s hl h> /m n/<m n> /l ɹ w/<l r w> /i ḭ e ḛ a a̰ o o̰ u ṵ/ Phonotactics are in the most general terms C(V)V(V)(ɹ), but ...
by Solarius
07 Feb 2024 07:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today?
Replies: 734
Views: 207167

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Made a vowel chart for my latest conlang, Wikkaynese!

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by Solarius
03 Feb 2024 20:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1679
Views: 347480

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I'm working on a diachronic conlang with a noun morphology based on this sketch , and am struggling with an issue. The ancestor language, Deligic, marks the singulative form with - g , even when doing so creates fairly intense consonant clusters. This isn't an issue as Deligic allows these. However,...
by Solarius
03 Feb 2024 19:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
Replies: 10
Views: 562

Re: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)

I remember seeing the old thread on this and liked it a lot! Excited to see where this goes.
by Solarius
27 Jan 2024 00:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What do you associate with SOUNDS?
Replies: 12
Views: 5880

Re: What do you associate with SOUNDS?

I don't have too many strong associations with sounds, aside from some moderate color associations for a few graphemes, but I do have a bit of synesthesia with linguistic features. The most prominent is that I tend to think of SOV languages as being blue or purple, while SVO and VSO languages are br...
by Solarius
17 Jan 2024 20:46
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Naming Practices
Replies: 54
Views: 33893

Re: Naming Practices

In Tesazo society, most people only have one name, which we would consider to be equivalent to a given name. Names are commonly composed of compounds of two nouns, usually ones with neutral or desirable connotations, though it's still fairly common to just have a one-word name. These names usually c...
by Solarius
15 Dec 2023 00:58
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

tafaka [ta.fa.'ka] (n.) - tobacco

From Chetanka tafak, itself from Spanish tabaco.
by Solarius
13 Dec 2023 22:09
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

tay [taj] (n.) - heart, symbolic center of cognition, emotion. A common dialectal variation is tiai . Okoko tay elefam . knock heart elephant "The elephant's heart is beating." Je binyan ər nəstiai yowon . there.is rain LOC COM-DEF-heart 1p.SG "There is rain in my heart." (an id...
by Solarius
13 Dec 2023 05:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

fenumɨ [fe.nu.'mɨ] (n.) - salad, raw mixture of fruits and/or vegetables
by Solarius
12 Dec 2023 05:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

comate [t͡ɕo.ma.'te] (n.) - tomato, ears (colloquial)

Originally from Nahuatl tomatl, via Spanish and Chetanka (where it perplexingly acquired the affricate, perhaps on analogy with Chetanka chussu "apple."
by Solarius
11 Dec 2023 07:40
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

oənya [oə.'nja] adj. - "sweet" from adjectivizer oə - + nia [ni.'a] "honey" -- originally meaning "honey-like." The shift of [ni.'a] to [nja] means that the etymology is not transparent for native speakers. oənya is not used for very sweet or sugary items, like candies...
by Solarius
10 Dec 2023 05:28
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

simə [si.mə] (n.) - automobile, cart

Sisimə amtur yowon Toyota.
DEF-car favorite 1p.SG Toyota
"My favorite car is a Toyota."
by Solarius
09 Dec 2023 22:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ayarese
Replies: 0
Views: 466

Ayarese

This is the language I'm developing for Lexember. I figured I'd post what I have about it as well, so I can gradually add on. It's spoken in the Republic of Ayarang, a small country which is talked about (outdatedly) here . Phonology /i e a o u ɨ ə/<i e a o u ɨ ə> /p b t d t͡ɕ d͡ʑ k g kʷ gʷ ʔ f θ s ...
by Solarius
09 Dec 2023 08:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

emaki (n.) - abacus
by Solarius
08 Dec 2023 08:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

serku ['ser.ku] (n.) - letters, writing

Serku Datin nethe ʔə.
writing Latin difficult very
"Writing in Latin script is very hard."
by Solarius
07 Dec 2023 07:10
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

prastiki [pras.ti.'ki] n. - plastic
by Solarius
06 Dec 2023 08:16
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13817

Re: Lexember 2023

Submitted in the nick of (Pacific) time!

thyam [θjam] n. - "adze"