The CBB

Umm... ham ibiklu khayffin? I say unsurely. He frowns, as though what you said made no sense whatsoever. "28) Muryo huþaþra?" (Remember, y'all, that Suhakkan does speak your language. Monolingual can be fun, but can be difficult, too. I'll also point out that khayffin has been used once b...

More kakúsan (mostly grammar) ROMANIZATION Acute accent for stress: á í ú . /s̠/ is romanized <z>, /ŋ/ <ng>, and /j/ <y>. Aside from this, everything is romanized with IPA. THE NAME The native name kakúsan is derived from Klallam *q̓áq̓uʔ-úcən, meaning "stingray-language." It can be analy...

Absolutely nothing will go wrong here, right? Famous last words. Perhaps, heh. ARTICLES Old English's definite article had a vast number of forms, varying by case, noun class, and number. Most of these forms were lost in Ẹlnk, but it retains two: se , the singular, and a , the plural. The plural pa...

_Just_A_Sketch wrote: ↑20 May 2024 02:26 I walk over to where Suhakkan and the others are talking.
Hay, ibiklu laap ukya Sketchsan

"Ai, kahiþra!" says Suhakkan. "Ibiklu laap ukya Suhakkanan." Gesturing to the others, he says, "27) Ham o anni khayffin?"

Minimal Phonology Salish Yep, we're doing this. I debated a lot whether I should do this from Proto-Salish (pros: it was spoken in the past, so I could do an alternate history; cons: not much grammatical reconstruction has been done that I can find) or Klallam (pros: I own a full reference grammar ...

I just wanna say, everyone please do post any feedback you have! I'd love to hear anything you all have to say.

By the way, I'm working on a new project that I may post later.

:con: Ẹlnk Hâ hõ púnt an pleo sìl witl. hâ hõ púnt an pleo sìl witl ART.GNOM idea without any color sleep caged.animal [ha˧˩‿ho˥ˀ punt˩˥‿an˩ pleo̯˩ sil˥˩ wit͡ɬ˩] Green ideas without color sleep furiously. If it's a specific group of green ideas, replace hâ with nı , or with a if they were already th...

I point to the cat's snout. "As nehle i catures?"

Flavia wrote: ↑18 May 2024 10:30 As, is tehley i marey.

All right. I'll need something else. I point to my nose. "As le?"

I'd also like to note one thing: if this language is derived via (extensive) sound change from Daas, it cannot be spoken concurrently with Daas. Either all of Daas was affected by these changes, in which case Daas became this language, or part of Daas was affected by these changes, in which case th...

I point at my left index finger. "As le?"

Is nare, nellehay i io i si caya. It hasn't rained here for some time. Tiechnemor, ni is ihnanannehay. I don't like that the sun shines so much. [ʔʲíːsnɑrɛ | ˈnéːlːehɑj ˌʔʲíjɔʔiˈsíːkɑjɑ] [c͡ɕẽ́ːn̥*ɛ̃mɔɾ | ɲiˌʔʲíːsʲĩn̥*ɑ̃ˈnɑ̃́ːnːɛhɑj] (n̥~s) PROX LOC-OBL, rain-NEG REL time REL one QF sun-PL, 1sg.OBL...

Ẹlnk Verbs INFLECTION The Old English verbal inflectional system has been ─ whaddaya know? Mostly leveled! The only remaining trace of inflection is that the participles, much like the genitive, were often lexicalized. It was the first person singular present that became the general form. Thus one ...

More Ẹlnk (mostly nouns) ROMANIZATION OF TONE Low ˩ <a> High ˥ <á> Rising ˩˥ <ǎ> Falling ˥˩ <à> Creaky ˥ˀ <ã> Creaky falling ˥ˀ˧ <ȧ> (I guess I'll have to use ı for normal /i/. That's fine, though; I like that letter.) Low falling ˧˩ <â> NOUN CLASS Old English's noun classes no longer have any rele...

I've decided to give another artlang a try, this time not oligosynthetic. This is partially because I don't want to deal with the problems with Daas right now, and also due to the fact that one of my conspecies is now confirmed to NOT speak Daas. However, I do want the languages to be related parti...

[Unnamed] Lexicon NOUNS cal night(time) kiża camel nəkad the previous day-night cycle rram attacker, aggressor ṡədi rain ADJECTIVES jiny running, moving quickly VERBS dəgaŋ to make, to create, to work on nyajə to see, to perceive, to look at, to notice ADPOSITIONS bə inessive (can be temporal) ji l...

Nice. I enjoy Celtic languages, so this is fun! Awaiting more.

Flavia wrote: ↑17 May 2024 17:46

Arayaz wrote: ↑17 May 2024 16:37 I point at my left hand. "As le?" I ask.

As tena.

Okay.

I point at the cat's left front paw. "As tena i catus?"

A Tonal Anglic Language (Ẹlnk?) Derived from Old English. Probably not spoken on Earth, since the nearest contour-tone languages to the Anglo-Saxons were relatively far, and I don't wanna work out interactions with real languages. So this is more a thought experiment, I suppose, unless I get (or so...

I point at my left hand. "As le?" I ask.