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[Unnamed] Parts of Speech In this language, it is an open area of debate how many parts of speech should be considered separate. The leading analysis is that there is an open class of nouns and an open class of adjectives, both of which may be used predicatively (and encompassing most verb-like mea...

"The word for "go" in "We are going to the market." or "Let's go home." "That second one would be fawi khaþ ota , yes. We do not have a word for 'market,' but if I replaced it, say, something like 'we are going to the river,' that would be 25) suhakkak khaþ o...

"The word for "go" in "We are going to the market." or "Let's go home." "That second one would be fawi khaþ ota , yes. We do not have a word for 'market,' but if I replaced it, say, something like 'we are going to the river,' that would be 25) suhakkak khaþ o...

Another Sketchlang /t~d tʰ tʃ~dʒ tʃʰ k~ɡ kʰ/ <d t j c g k> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> /s ʂ/ <s ṡ> /ɾ~z r ɻ~ȥ l j w/ <r rr ż l y w> /i u/ <i u> /ə~a~ɐ~i~u~∅/ <see below> /a~ɐ/ <a> The unaspirated stops are usually voiceless at word boundaries and voiced elsewhere; however, there is individual and dialect...

kiwikami wrote: ↑13 May 2024 17:44"You are related to us, from the Iḳà clan?" translates Maza, the one in green.

"Oh ─ no." I frown. "I'm sorry, I misinterpreted it ... Well, I don't have a clan; could I just say Ù·zàa Araıaz?"

Kesshin wrote: ↑13 May 2024 17:04 What about just "to go?"

"Ummm ... that'd be khaþ, I think? What do you mean?"

6) ejan jen moghan. 8) ejan jewo mozazezelh. Okay. I'm pretty sure ejan is a second person pronoun, since it's seen in the greeting. Now, jen is "rock," so jewo must be some other form of that ─ but what's the change? Is the noun marked for tense? And moghan and mozazezelh both have that ...

let's maybe move on to the village and talk with people there) Danté points to the villiage. "How would you say Let's go there? " "One would say 24a) Owisshak khaþ ota. Or, since it's my village, I could say 24b) Fawi khaþ ota. And so could you, since that's where you're staying for ...

This is something new in Daas I added to avoid excessively long /ɑ::/ and /ɛ::/ Vowel Repetition Due to Affixes: Two a’s: the second “a” becomes “e”. Two e’s: second “e” becomes “a” Isn't this technically vowel harmony? No. I'd call it vocalic dissimilation; vowel harmony is a process of vocalic a ...

"Ahhhh ..." I frown, thinking to myself. "Ù·zàa Iḳà·Araiaz?" I try.

Oh no. I play "pretend I'm doing fieldwork with my/someone else's conlang" all the time, this sounds like great fun, but I definitely do not have the time for... ...oh, darn it all, I'll join in on a few and start one for Alál. While it does have a forum thread, that thread (1) is rather ...

Man in Space wrote: ↑13 May 2024 02:36 Is there a list of available languages for me to do the analyzing?

There's one in the first post of this thread!

Ibiklu slaaha yaþoyma. 22) "Hamklu slaaha yaþoymo?" he says. 23) "Kahiþra. Fawi yashinnaa hamklu ibi yaþoy." Vowel harmony???!!! And now we have hamklu as indirect object, I suppose? idk how should I reply to this lol Kahiþra. Congrats, you're the first person to use kahiþra cor...

*sighs deeply* This would be perfect for Rawàng Ata - a simple but very non-European language - but it's in a bit of flux, and more importantly I don't currently have access to my documents for its most recent stable version. And I don't have the brainpower or time at the moment to recreate them. I...

Flavia wrote: ↑12 May 2024 11:52 Ibiklu slaaha yaþoyma.

22) "Hamklu slaaha yaþoymo?" he says. 23) "Kahiþra. Fawi yashinnaa hamklu ibi yaþoy."

Awklu laap ibi "yosicatenner". "Yosicatenner," Suhakkan repeats. "Hm. You'd say 'awklu laap ibi yosicatenneran,' by the way. It sounds wrong to just say 'yosicatenner.'" By this time, you've reached a running river. 20) "Owammak yashin ota ipshi," he says, fi...

Lamprian (Bright Way) doctrine combines tenents of pantheism and animism. They believe Starmaker willed the universe into existence and is the same as it at the same time both creating and transforming into a cosmic womb (star-womb) from which they brought forth the stars. They believe everything h...

Awklu laap ibi "yosicatenner". "Yosicatenner," Suhakkan repeats. "Hm. You'd say 'awklu laap ibi yosicatenneran,' by the way. It sounds wrong to just say 'yosicatenner.'" By this time, you've reached a running river. 20) "Owammak yashin ota ipshi," he says, fi...

Lamprian (Bright Way) doctrine combines tenents of pantheism and animism. They believe Starmaker willed the universe into existence and is the same as it at the same time both creating and transforming into a cosmic womb (star-womb) from which they brought forth the stars. They believe everything h...

Flavia wrote: ↑12 May 2024 00:00

Arayaz wrote: ↑11 May 2024 23:19

Flavia wrote: ↑11 May 2024 18:15 I point to my hat.
Aw taa muryo?

(Could you describe your hat for me?)

(Let's say it's similar to this)

Suhakkan furrows his brow. 18) "Ibi ... hawþ kahiyan." He pauses. 19) "Awklu laap ham muryon?"