The CBB

I'll be playing the part of a "lay" speaker—that is, someone who speaks the language but has no linguistic training. I'll be able to tell you how to say things in different situations, maybe give intuitive explanations of how I think about why you say something, but won't be able to give ...

This certainly looks fun! I could try with my Abaniscen.

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...

Imralu wrote: ↑03 May 2024 02:58

Flavia wrote: ↑02 May 2024 23:03 Imas ntāxicās ḷāyin yełāyin.
I made a new language.

Hiayyittlénīd?
Does it have a name?

So mīcās line sarum.
Not yet.

Imas ntāxicās ḷāyin yełāyin.
I made a new language.
Cansō sarumic ṭꙋmin ṣune ḷāyintāxitur or penꙋx, lame ḷāy or carī "Tiyꙋns".
It's been a while since I last made one, not counting my Tyuns conlang.

I'm more of a perfectionist or whatever that's called in Khemehekis's typology. I scrapped Abaniscen multiple times and remade it, and the only thing the versions have in common is a single syntactical feature. And doing that actually helped me make "better" conlangs later. So maybe it's ...

elemtilas has returned! I must say I love your worldbuilding and writing. Reminds me of Pratchett and also Le Guin at the same time.

I'm in a bit of a dilemma right now. I realized that Ruykkarraber's name is invalid ─ it should be Ruykkarrasber. Maybe its an exonym - what their neighbors call the language and its speakers...and-or, its a name for archiving purposes, rather than the name it'll have in whatever material gets publ...

Arayaz wrote: ↑28 Apr 2024 17:19 Ai þıŋk pərsənəli ðæt ə riform ız ə bæd aidiə.

Ai agrí ðät it iznt a gúd aidia in präktis, bùt it kän bi fùn äs an eksasaiz.

Du iu laik mai iqlish ortograthi riform? (ies, ai nou dhat it luks nubish, buht it is thiqkyd ouvyr uel) Minor nitpicks: Why is /f/ spelled <th> in <ortograthi>? Also, the two <o>s in the word orthography are different vowels, NORTH and LOT . Thinked is an unusual form, maybe you meant to use thoug...

:lat: Latin NUNC "now" :esp: Spanish nunca "never" < NUMQUAM It's nunc or nunca ... Venī strictē mē tentum :wat: Google Translate suggests that this is Latvian? Goes to show how much it knows; I am sure it is Latin. Yet is this a pun of some sort that I am not getting? I have lo...

:lat: Latin NUNC "now" :esp: Spanish nunca "never" < NUMQUAM It's nunc or nunca ... Venī strictē mē tentum :wat: Google Translate suggests that this is Latvian? Goes to show how much it knows; I am sure it is Latin. Yet is this a pun of some sort that I am not getting? I have lo...

Arayaz wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024 16:00

Flavia wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024 15:57 Latin NUNC "now"
Spanish nunca "never" < NUMQUAM

It's nunc or nunca ...

Venī strictē mē tentum

Latin NUNC "now"
Spanish nunca "never" < NUMQUAM

Da iawn! Wyt ti'n dal yn cofio popeth ti wedi dysgu yn y dosbarth? Well done! Do you still remember everything you've learned in class? Mas o menos. A veces oblivo el vocabulario. Most of it. Sometimes I forget the vocabulary. Rho wybod i ni pan ddechreui di wneud y mapiau! Mi wn i mod i'n hun eisi...

I solidified stuff for ŋAħual, such as the name. The full ŋAħual series is currently as follows: ŋAħual Phonology and Morphology ŋAħual Noun Class Sketch ŋAħual Actual Noun Classes Tense in ŋAħual ŋAħual Lexicon Cool stuff! Though the new name looks a little similar to Nahuatl...

I used to have a lot of recurring nightmares when I was about 7-8. In the one I remember the best I am a climber in the Himalayas. I am climbing to some sort of shelter on the mountain ridge through deep snow and dangerous passages, and when I finally get there, the door is closed and my hand gets f...

Arayaz wrote: ↑12 Apr 2024 16:50 What's special about 91,011?

9 10 11

Khemehekis wrote: ↑12 Apr 2024 05:32

Interesting. Are interspecies relationships uniformly accepted in the Lehola Galaxy, or are there some cultures where they're frowned upon, or forbidden?
Also, congrats in hitting your milestone! I can't imagine hitting 2000 words, let alone tens of thousands. Your work is really impressive.