The CBB

Aaaaaa ʒe wil harthle tekke lot in at, ennae ʒe giar'k ennou ha no interessent tunger for at scape ei sʒain. Ʒe kun nitte eurcisc, ut the wirth nittet is meir interessent en ats grammatik. Ahhhhh I want to take part in it so much, but I don't have any interesting languages for making a thread yet. ...

[Unnamed] Mood Predicates in this language inflect for tense, aspect , mood , subject agreement, object agreement, and evidentials. This language distinguishes realis (unmarked), subjunctive ( mə- ), conditional ( urru- ), and imperative ( ji- ) moods. The realis mood is used for factual statements...

[Unnamed] Tense and Aspect (Predicate Morphology 1) Predicates in this language inflect for tense, aspect , mood , subject agreement, object agreement, and evidentials. TENSE AND ASPECT This language distinguishes past (usually -gə ) versus present ( -m(ə) ) versus future ( -w(ə) ) in tense, and di...

Hmmm. So kuŋ means "language," but it also means "we (exclusive) sense them"? And r̼ɔt means "tree," but it also means "some (singular ???) are the two of us"? And how do you have number inflections on an anaphoric item meaning "all"?

Khemehekis wrote: ↑14 May 2024 03:03 Well, thanks for that link, @Arayaz, even if it is in a language I don't speak. At least I speak Spanish!

No problem! If I had a lot of time I might try to translate the relevant section into English, since I have some limited Portuguese knowledge, but I doubt I have the time to do it.

Has anyone ever made a lesson/guide for Xavante? That'd be useful for getting into the mindset of a realistic OSV conlang. I did a quick look for resources, and all I found was this set of lessons , which is in Portuguese. On an unrelated note: while trying to navigate to this post, I got a few err...

:con: griushkoent (without script here) raeskoz. saroz. eksoz. /'reskɔz. 'sarɔz. 'əksɔz/ win-ITJ. PL-V-IMP-ITJ. plus-ITJ Congratulations! Come on! There you go! You have a suffix specifically for interjections? Or is the thing you glossed as ITJ an interjection on its own? Also, your post was the C...

[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...