The CBB

Inspired by Greek Mythology and Gnosticism?

Creyeditor, are those glosses ? Did you, like, already have knowledge of linguistics before you began? I added the glosses retroactively [:D] As I said, the whole documentation was a German-Agrigropiapicz dictionary from Aa to Ab, a few additional words, and a few DinA5 pages of notes on grammar, m...

These are sentences in the very first conlang of mine, which did not have a name. I created it when I was 10 y.o., just grammar and words, no real phonology (it is basically the german phonology) Dlen snafi iwoforn. [dlɛn ˈsna.fi ˈʔi.vo.foʁn] Dlen snafi iwofor-n. INDEF.N eel forge-VERB An eel hamme...

- Another engelang in which instead of pronouns there are variables, and each verb takes as arguments two variables that are phonologically combined and inserted as a single phone into a twoliteral roots; for example, if like is l-k, and we want to say A likes E, we say læk, because A+E=Æ. I always...

Fredauon Fun Fact #41: Wizard historians standardly divide the history and prehistory of Fredauon into eras. The initial period is the Era Of Anthropogenesis, where evolution lead to the speciation of humans. This is followed by the Era Of Population (aka the Era Of Settlement), where humans spread...

Fredauon Fun Fact #40 The elves traditionally live in tree houses, i.e. cabin-like buildings constructed on large tree branches. Historically, they were only used for ritual purposes and in times of war but during the Great War they became the standard housing. They are still in use after the Great...

I like the gaps in your phoneme inventory. No /f/ (amd you still have the labiodental approximant) and no /x/. Also, you rarely see a conlang without /b/. As for the vowels, /au/ (and /ou/, /eu/) are also interesting gaps.

[+1] to everything Sal said. Regarding Crey's suggestion of initial vowel reduction: this is possible but not necessary. Essentially, unstressed and reduced vowels will be more likely to be influenced by nearby vowels; this is particularly useful if you want total harmony (where unstressed vowels en...

One hypothesis for a diachronic pathway to vowel harmony is reduction of unstressed vowels (such that the later harmonizing feature is not contrastive anymore) and the assimilation of the unstressed voweks to the stressed one.

Fascinating idea

I am not sure about the terminology but I thought of a one-way pair as two one-way streets (with opposing directions) that are independent and separated by some space. If you would turn left (assuming you drive on the right-hand lane) and then go straight, you would still have to cross the opposing ...

I was thinking they might have something like one-way pairs.

I'd be in on that.

Extinct quillwort trees *here*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigillaria?wprov=sfla1

If you decide to go with this idea, I'd be interested to see if you'd create metaphors with inanimate objects acting on human beings to express concepts that we'd handle differently in English, since the resulting sentences would be shorter by perhaps two syllables. To start with a simple idea, wou...

Left turns at an intersection are dangerous and a major cause of accidents *here* and probably also *there*.

Fredauon Fun Fact #39 The New Capital City of the Wizard Republic was planned in the Era Of Isolation and the Era of Reconciliation with private motorized vehicles in mind. The city features no four-way intersections, no left turns, only one-way streets and lots of bridges. Since it is mostly inhab...

How about crossing marked nominative alignment with split ergativity? Let's say the split is based on animacy. Animate subjects and inanimate objects of transitive verbs would be marked with the direct (?) case. Wece-sung tuba-sung diku. woman-DIR stone-DIR admire. The woman admires the stone. Both...

zyma wrote: ↑07 May 2024 21:02 Well, it's not because of anything having to do with the board itself. I just tend to use up most of my time and energy elsewhere, I guess.

I really identify with this statement.

/p t k kʷ/<p t c cw> /f θ s ʂ ɕ x xʷ/<f cz ci s cj ch cv> /t͡s ʈ͡ʂ t͡ɕ/<ce cr cy> /m n ŋ ŋʷ/<m n ng nw> /l j w/<l j w> /r/<r> /i iː y yː u uː/<i i' ü û u ú> /e eː o oː/<e é o ó> /a aː/<a á> <e> and <i> are written as <ë> and <y> after <c>, <ci>, and <ce>. Next: /m n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ/ /b ɓ t d ɗ c ɟ ʄ k ɠ q ɢ...