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Xúuuatxia: Miscellany and Cleanup 1 Reflexives, reduplication, and an endonym REFLEXIVES In Toxèix Haio iu - ostoaxiia , I used the reflexive suffix -an . At least, I think I did ... I made a note to myself that -an was a reflexive, at least, which makes me think that i probably used it there. Ah, ...

I think you will probably be OK. What your conlang actually does, is way more important than what words you use to describe or explain it. The main advantage of using established terms with established meanings, is saving time and effort; both your readers’ and your own. If you make up a new term, ...

lurker wrote: ↑06 May 2024 22:59My personal opinion on cats is that their reputation for cleverness is largely undeserved. *raises flame shield*

I'm a cat person, but I agree. The real clever animals? Crows. And dolphins. And octopi.

If it was black Friday, it'd fit the title. Not to drag the thread off topic, but I always thought "Black Friday" was a fitting name. I know "black" refers to being "in the black" financially, but the fact that people literally kill each other over sales on Black Frida...

What strikes me more is how few of the users who posted in this thread are still active on the forum today. It seems like the CBB's active userbase steadily declined after a peak in the early 2010s. There are what, maybe a dozen people who post in the Conlangs section more than once a month now? Ye...

I really need an actual name for Hóubenk. Especially since (1) that's not a valid word anymore and (2) I hate its sound. I think I'll build its name off of xúuan "mouth, voice"; it'd be followed by a relativized stative verb with the semantic range "good, familiar, normal." Now I...

_Just_A_Sketch wrote: ↑06 May 2024 01:36 That was a fantastic story! I hope I can get my conlangs to a point where I can write in them soon, it looks really fun.

Thank you

Visions1 wrote: ↑05 May 2024 10:31 The long-awaited sequel!

Indeed! Did you enjoy it? I worry I made it a bit unclear what Haio was doing.

Thakowsaizmu's language was, I'm certain, a joke. Also, Thakowsaizmu has been inactive for almost nine years and will doubtlessly not respond to your criticism. Also, you shouldn't be reviving long-dead threads. That's called necroposting, and honestly, it's rather annoying. Especially since practic...

1. Human - a 2. Animal/meat - i 3. Plant/food - u 4. Inanimate - o /ɒ/ 5. Water - e /ə/ 6. Verb (makes next word an verb) - ta 7. Injury - ti 8. Meeting - tu 9. Good thing - to /tɒ/ 10. Bad thing - te /tə/ /t/ can be pronounced as any consonant except of semivowels. VSO - Past SVO - Present SOV - F...

thethief3 wrote: ↑05 May 2024 04:03 225 items added to the lexicon so far all by me.

I've put many of these into my language and shall continue work on it later.

lurker wrote: ↑05 May 2024 01:49 Speaking of forum mysteries. The banner at the top of the site implies the forum was started in 2005, but I only see threads going back to 2010.

They moved it, I believe. The CBB was in a different place in 2005.

I think it's great that you're writing a story in your conlang. Its grammar and lexicon will come to be developed in that way, to the point where you can actually say stuff in the language. Then the CBBizens can hold a Hóubenk conversation. Well, it's not like it was impossible to say stuff in my o...

Finished part two of Toxèix Haio iu!!

Toxèix Haio iu (ostoaxiia) The Story of Haio (second part) ─ read part one here Kóon Haio iu nyu: "Íxke! Ak òiaixli nótansày kon?" Ásosbon xik ngitu nyu, ibúbon Haio iu, ak katxíebon. Toxak kóon ngitu nyu: "Àesu aiúk. Èaeisuk nóoukíeixiof nóoukí nyu, aiúk ixsú." Toxak kóon Haio ...

¿Qué pasó? ¿No se reemplazará para nada el profesor? Suena extreño... What happened?? Aren't they replacing the teacher at all? That sounds bizarre... No sé exactamente. Es tan cerca del fin del año que no sé que van a reemplzarlo antes del verano. I don't know exactly what happened. It's so close ...

I seem to love <x> too much; I've forgotten it wasn't a phoneme! At this point, it'll be simpler to just add it to the phoneme inventory.

(Also, Toxèix Haio iu - ostoaxiia is coming out tomorrow!)

I have just reached word #6,089 in the alphabetical list of words from the IGCE corpus, "bombproof". That means I am now exactly one-tenth of the way through my wordlist! I have 90,686 Kankonian words now. Is it a coincidence that the number of Kankonian words is composed of the same arra...

Just realized my phonotactics forbid the word ngituv! I'm fine with that, since I don't really like it. I'll replace it with ngitu, and edit the story.

coda elide Forgive me for my beginnerism, but what do these mean? I've heard of a coda in music, but I don't think that applies here. No problem! The coda is the consonant or series of consonants that ends a syllable. If a sound is elided , it is skipped over or deleted. I actually realized that &q...