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Hi guys, I am currently trying to decide on names in my conlang for animals. I have been going through Wikipedia etc for Birds that live in the Sundaland region as that's the area I am taking inspiration from I was wondering on how you come up with names for flora and fauna, at the moment it seems q...

Thanks for the responses guys, they have been really helpful.

Goster, I love those sound changes, thank you so much. I was looking for a way to make a series of them, as having /ɕ/ by itself seemed unnatural and this is perfect.

Thanks Chagen. Can i clarify that I understand what you wrote?


So for example /si/ would become /ɕi/ and /ʃi/ becoming /ʂi/? Excuse my ignorance if that is incorrect

Hi guys, just a quick question. Is it possible for /ɕ/ and /ʃ/ to exist in the same phoneme inventory? My current Languages has /ʃ/ but I wanted /s/ before /e/ and /i/ to front to ɕ, with possibly /ʃ/ doing so in the same enviroment, merging them together. Would it exist as a allophone of /ʃ/ rather...

In Rinki; Metapta - to have sex, literally means to use the flesh Mestotapta - to fuck, with an added intensifier infix Mestotaptana - to rape, literally to make someone fuck On side note; kiŋapto - to mastabate, for both men and women kistoŋapto  - to wank, jack off, again vulagrisms are made by us...

Hi Guys, I have come up with some sounds changes I have applied to a daughter language from the Proto language. There are some things I wanted to check. Firstly this is the phonology of Rinki, the proto language. /p t k/ /f,v s,z ʃ h/ /pf tʃ ts/ /m n ŋ w l r j/ /i u/ /e o/ /a/ /ei/ /ai/ /oi/ It chan...

:con: Rinaki Ntuekasha runta ntuwe Ntueka-sha runta-0 ntuwe Boy-AGT ball-PAT throw The boy throws the ball. Ntuekasha runta rumpempey ntuwe Ntueka-sha runta-0 run-pempey ntuwe Boy-AGT ball-PAT towards-dog throw The boy throws the ball to the dog. Wenta ntuekasha runta vofi rumpempey ntuwe Wenta ntue...

Rinaki has model/auxillary suffixes not seperate words for can/must.

Os, ntsayrupfutpay, uwau hnunusha ntsayrupfutpi!
Oh! ntsay-rupfu-tpay, uwau hnunu-sha ntsay-rupfu-tpi
Oh! SMTHNG-do-ABLITY, but 2.SG-AGT SMTHNG-do-OBLIGATION
Oh I can't! But you must!

Rinaki Iasumpo ioniunki foysha maloka, smosha pempey tulukani ia-tsumpo-0 ioniunki-0 Foy-sha ma-lo-ka, smo-sha pempey-0 tu-lu-kani nearby-man-PAT spear-PAT 1.SG-AGT give-REM PAST, 3.SG-AGT dog-PAT kill-REM PAST That man, to whom I gave the spear, killed the dog Lit. I gave the spear to that man, he...

I have an idea to start a langauge spoken by a humanoid race that live underground. It's inspired by the creatures in the films Descent and Descent 2.

:eng: I asked, "Why are you hitting your wife?" He said, "Don't you hit her?" I said, "Yes, of course. But she's my maid." :con: Paliota "hnunusha kioe uspi puwustongäpta?" Pa-l-i-o-ta "hnunu-sha kioe upsi pu-wu-stongäpta?" ask-proximal past-complete...

Rinaki

yänokla
yän-okl-a
see-benefactive for the listener
you are seen (for your benefit)
I see you

I've revised how verbs work in Rinaki not being satisfied with what I had originally, so I have come up wit this. Does it work? Any questions or anything you would like translated to test the system. It would help me to see if there are any holes in it. Thank you Verbs are inflected with infixes tha...

Wiki has this article, might help. It briefly mentions teilcity and stative verbs in finnish at the end..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telicity#T ... _an_aspect

This is the beginning to the great epic of the Nazinaran; Uezoyoechi the mountain girl . It's about a girl who is made grotesque by spirits, she later goes on to kill young girls in revenge. The story later features the Nazinaran's cultural hero, amongst other things, Kuo-yenrìyo-mata kuo angry face...

Dammit, now the Adari aren't original...

It happened that way due to a collaborative project on the ZBB, there was no more room for me so I just made up some islands in an ocean and....voila.

My conworld has a Polynesian theme. The Nazinaran are lovers of the open ocean and have spread themselves over the globe living in island communities.

Rinaki

kasha vewestoho kwerum, pembeywem mpfoyyoyoloyn.
/kaːʃa vewestoːho kʷeːrum, pembejːwem mpfojjojoːlojn/
Car-AGT Smash-IMPERF-Intensifier before, Dog-PAT save-PERF-BENE
before the car hit the dog was saved.

Rinaki Siotama Nahwerunki yoyololi makto, kiki seyeze[...]foypom anäncha riyinola, rueriyina Siotama Na-hwerunki yo-yo-l-ol-i makto, kiki se-ye-ze[...]foy-pom anän-sha ri-yi-n-ol-a, rue-ri-yi-na back then Pl-ancestors live-PRF when, kiki be[...] 1S-POSS Father-AGT say-PRF-BENE, someone-say-PRF When...