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Something that just occured to me: Maybe, X and Y are not tenses, but rather moods.

Actually no, the basic idea has nothing to do with backgrounding and foregrounding. It's about deixis. One day I suddenly had the thought... Why is it even necessary to mark all verbs in a text for tense like in most Indo-European languages? If I start telling a story, then it should be enough to in...

Original story in English: There is a story they tell of two dogs. Both dogs, at separate times, walk into the same room. One dog comes out wagging his tail while the other comes out growling. A woman watching this goes into the room to see what could possibly ma...ke one dog so happy and the other ...

Okay people, as you may have already found out by now, the conlang's name is Ösjke and the text is a translation of the first chapter from "The little prince" by St. Exupéry. It is basically a Germanic conlang with lots of vocabulary from English, Swedish, French and Polish. The problem ab...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑01 Aug 2022 01:00 I've never read it, but the answer is very obvious from google.

Googling it is cheating :)

Okay, here is the script... Maybe you will recognize a bit more [B)] Rasa når jeg hade sägs lat, jeg ha vögt ei lägtje ägmesj uver het dösjtelås ve ei bok hétand "prov störsje fra het natur". Het pokde ei viske vånsj slokand ei svigsje. Stjäs ei kopie op het ägmesj. Ve het bok, het ha stor...

https://voca.ro/1gM6WZ826vqw I will not give you the text, just an audio file of me reading the first chapter of a famous book. My questions for you: 1. Which book am I reading? Do you recognize the text? (It is indeed a very famous text) 2. Which natlangs were my main sources for the grammar, the v...

As for š, ž, č and čh: The exact tongue position can vary a little bit: You can use labialized postalveolar fricatives as in German or more retroflex fricatives as in Polish. I can hardly hear any difference between the German "sch" as in "Schule" and the Polish "sz" as...

Having a phonemic distinction between /ɕ/ and /ʃ/ in the same language is extremely rare though, right? Polish has it, so does Mandarin Chinese. This is the complete consonant inventory of Miwonša: p p' t t' k k' m n ɲ (ŋ) f s z ʂ ʐ ɕ h ts tʂ tʂ' tɕ tɕ' w ʍ l ɬ r j Actually I am very satisfied with...

Miwonša: Starukak ti sjošni tarašul? - Why is it so cold today?
https://voca.ro/11p3TdrJmwdq

Stara sja umaya hontro kuimik! - Because we are in the middle of winter!
https://voca.ro/1fKFj5pFs126

Miwonša

What you're hearing is the Miwonšan language, which almost no one can read, speak or understand unless you're Miwonšan.

Sjaša stai wažašan, sja Miwonša, šulai piti kjantso možan cnoniwa, žweniwa aro wanpiwa, nišli šika Miwonšianje.
https://voca.ro/1nzhMZJZc1ny

Titus Flavius wrote: ↑25 Mar 2022 17:07

Quetzalcoatl wrote: ↑25 Mar 2022 16:00 Plusquamperfekt was my nickname in another forum (unilang.org)

And also here.

Oops... I wasn't even aware that I have two accounts in this forum. If this is against the forum rules, you can close on of my two accounts.

Plusquamperfekt was my nickname in another forum (unilang.org)

Part 1: 100 of the most essential nouns I will not give you a chart with all the phonemes in Miwonša even though I am "fluent" in IPA. Instead, I will give you a sound file and let you decide whether you like the sound or not :) https://voca.ro/1hzA75VztseQ anro father aran, aranška king, ...

Nominalizations sometimes have an ergative-absolutive pattern so you could use these maybe? I just realized my own native language German does that. Just compare the following sentences: N = nominative A = accusative G = genitive (used like an absolutive case here) E = durch + Akkusativ (used like ...

Hey people, please take a look at the following micro-conlang: bala - destruction bali - destroy tako - city nabibak - soldiers -n = accusative marker -ti = genitive/ possessive -ma = mistery case 1 -ki = mistery case 2 Nabibak bali takon. = The soldiers destroy the city. Tako nabibakti = the soldie...

How would you call a category in verbal morphology in which you add affixes to a verb stem of an activity you want to perform to express what you need to do first in order to be able to carry out the final action? Like for example: kota = to find kota-ba = to search (find-X) mera = to eat meraba = t...

Hey people, I am thinking about creating a tonal language but I don' t really speak one yet and I am not an expert on classifying tones phonetically... OK, so these are the tones that I would like to use in my conlang: https://vocaroo.com/i/s1KDtAreBpoC can you help me to describe the tone contour (...