The CBB

Flavia wrote: ↑15 May 2024 16:32 Alright. I point to my sandals and ask — Ya dene pheida ma? — then I point to hers and ask the same thing.

On the first question:
Ya pheida reuru.

On the second:
Ya pheida neuru.

She's wearing western clothes - a white t-shirt and light blue cargo shorts. She's wearing sandals. She has identical pairs of bronze bracelets and anklets, with iridescent yellow beads attached. These bracelets are common as a way of showing membership in a religious group; hers specifically indica...

Flavia wrote: ↑12 May 2024 19:41

Spoiler:

shit i thought those were possessive affixes of some sort lol

does she have a hat on her head?

She points to her uncovered head.

I kefa narba yong nawela.

My interpretation is that sai might be a copula? Then the use to mean "yes" is something like "it is." If that's right, that might imply some other meanings if we're dealing with SOV--teba potentially something like "to call," xeda "to see." Deixa seems to be...

So dene marks questions? Then what is ma ... I point at my hat. Ya dene pheida ma? Ya pheida ranarba! Let me know if you want me to address the OOC spoilers! do not answer the spoilers, I want to figure things out :) Ya pheida naranarba? I hope I'm not talking nonsense lol Adupheu is a bit confused...

Apologies for my slowness -- working through these! Have been fairly swamped with grad work.

Bey novi! Ni Solarius niestel.

I point to a cat nearby. As le?

Flavia wrote: ↑11 May 2024 12:20

Spoiler:

So dene marks questions? Then what is ma...

I point at my hat. Ya dene pheida ma?

Ya pheida ranarba!

Ya nakawa Trailsend. I cup my hand to my ear and lean forward, like I'm struggling to hear. Ya rikawa...Adupheu, ma? Adupheu smiles at both of you. Mo yiwaka Hayaka, cintta Trailsend san Maria! She pauses and then says with a slight apologetic tone: Salle, ina mo 'Ya rikawa Adupheu, ma?' Na ada 'ya...

I come along as well.

Ibiklu laap ukya Solan! I'm excited to speak with you all!

Hayakan is spoken in the Kingdom of Hayaka, a fictional country in our world – so you’d expect them to be familiar with modern technology, etc. The speaker you all will be meeting is from Saltam, the legislative capital and largest city by far, a huge conurbation with a tropical monsoon climate. You...

I'd be potentially interested in joining if it's not too late!

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...

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...

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?

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 ...

Made a vowel chart for my latest conlang, Wikkaynese!

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,...

I remember seeing the old thread on this and liked it a lot! Excited to see where this goes.

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...