The CBB

Forgot grammar document, sorry: http://is.gd/kFc1sp

Hello, all, I've finally finished the conlang I've been working on for almost 3 years. I wrote a grammar which hopefully explains all the features enough for other people to understand. It's supposed to be naturalistic to some extent, so if anything is "weird" or a "noob mistake"...

You made a race of sentient power outlets?

The Universals Archive seems to suggest that big-endian is much more common. From what I could gather the only little-endian language that exists today is Malagasy.

Are there any natural languages that place the least significant digit first?

Specifically, consistently and with large numbers (i.e. not in compound words like "fourteen").

Ah, thank you for correcting me.

Probably scrapper. The languages I worked on previously were scrapped due to being unnaturalistic and noobish or due to being little more than sketches. I've been conlanging for little more than a year I think, so that doesn't reveal much about long-term trends.

(For strict word word with cases): You can use cases for things besides marking the roles in the clause, in which case word order can be strict and cases would still exist.

Examples: Active-stative languages and every non-core case ever.

(reposted from ZBB because few replies) Are there natural languages that have no mass nouns? How about only residual instances of these or of count nouns? Of those languages that use mass nouns in opposition to count nouns, what criteria do they use to determine whether a noun will be count or mass?...

Wouldn't it depend on what kind of orthography you use?

1. "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." There is no real consensus on what it takes to be a real language, but usually mutual intelligibility and/or the political/social/historical situation play a role. 2. It depends. A standard language can be a language ancestral to a grou...

I've had the idea to have noun classes with the possibility of one word belonging to a different noun class depending on which quality is stressed. Then it turns out that the Niger-Congo languages beat me to it. For example, Fula forms diminutives and augmentatives by changing the noun class. I deci...

This language doesn't seem very Salishan-like except for the phonology (the gender system is especially suspicious).

How do speakers of languages with phonemic vowel length distinguish between it and stress (especially if the stress is irregular)?

Fixed.

A...COA would be cool to accompany this. Voila: http://i.imgur.com/QgQBcez.jpg EDIT: The image is also quite big. Instructions on how to resize the image would be appreciated. I am horrible at image manipulation though, so if anybody wants to fix it I have the original vector file. Due to CC elemen...

Weight-based stress ftw.

Ithisa wrote:Zenk nrah gu tho, zhuh ngay a deng ngo.

My guess: Tibetan (or at least something Sino-Tibetan).

decemarietis wrote:After a small discussion about the superiority of CBB to ZBB, this resulted:

I hereby support CBB nationalism. An anthem/COA would be cool to accompany this.

Ambrisio wrote:There are some natlangs that use it (maybe even some ideolects spoken by computer programmers:-)

No, hexadecimal FTW.