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Are you against using X or C for the alveolo-palatal sibilant? I use X in Hapoish, Quispe, Txabao, and Javartu. Oooo, <x> could look quite nice. I usually dislike it for /ʃ/, but as in this case I think it tends more towards [xʲ] it could work very well. Thank you! You're welcome! Glad to be of hel...

Arayaz wrote: ↑03 May 2024 02:07 I'm also thinking about romanization ─ I dislike <sh> here, and I've been considering replacing <ni> and <sh> with <nı> and <sı>. Thoughts?

Are you against using X or C for the alveolo-palatal sibilant? I use X in Hapoish, Quispe, Txabao, and Javartu.

LinguoFranco wrote: ↑02 May 2024 20:30 I don't remember if I've asked this already or not, but can anyone tell me about how topic-prominence works in Imonda?

I'm just really curious how a topic prominent language works outside of Asia.

Here's a good post on it:

https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=32 ... da#p329472

Arayaz wrote: ↑02 May 2024 14:17 ỳlku nm. squirrel (sessile if dead)
ỳlku vi. to shoot a squirrel

fish -> Let's go fishing!
squirrel -> Let's so squirreling!

Zero-derivation bloodsport for the win!

Arayaz wrote: ↑01 May 2024 17:28

Khemehekis wrote: ↑01 May 2024 17:20 This sounds like a replacer.

Hmm, a replacer is a filler-scrapper? Sounds a bit like me.

Another type that's a mix of filler and scrapper is the remapper!

Flavia wrote: ↑01 May 2024 17:25 It's probably midway between replacer and perfectionist. I don't remake the language completely different right away, it's like Ship of Theseus.

Ah, if it's like the Ship of Theseus, that sounds like a perfectionist.

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 ...

For Honesty Day, two songs about presidents who lie.

"The Bush Lie Song"

"Would Trump Lie to Me?"

Today I created the ya ya nang, a red flower of Chatony that grows on graves, Chatony being where the nila bioswath (Dorsals) live. It's my first non-animal creation for that planet and bioswath. I needed the word to provide an etymon for "vulture", as in one who profits from another's/ot...

Just wow. I'm going to repeat what I, as an anthropologist of scrappers and other conlanging types, said in March: It's in the nature of the scrapper to find that one fatal flaw with each of his/her languages, be it a logistical, proof-of-concept, or strictly aesthetic flaw. Maybe Ruykkarraber can b...

Just realized that I reached word #90,210 -- as in Beverly Hills! The word was blumia , meaning "bindery, bookbindery". Blum is a verb meaning "to bind", like binding books, and -ia is a suffix for place words, including Kankonia itself (unlike the Indo-European suffix -ia, thoug...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑30 Apr 2024 01:21

Khemehekis wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024 03:32 Today I learned a new replacement pun: alief.
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/alief

Did you ever hear of Alief Texas?

I'd heard of Nacogdoches, Palestine, Plano, Highland, and Pearland. But never Alief.

Arayaz wrote: ↑29 Apr 2024 15:25 Should I post writing here, or keep it conlangs-only?

Writing? I say go for it!

So this is the Hi'im conlang thread, or "Hi, I'm a conlang!" Cool how you make you many words with so few roots. I like this part. Word order as the distinguishing factor between an active participle and a passive participle. That sounds like a good use of syntax in conlanging, unique yet ...

TBPO wrote: ↑28 Apr 2024 10:56 My conlang Hi'im reached 100 words! 100th word is sf, which means "to grow". Also, it's 8th basic root. (yes, 100 words on 8 roots!)

Woo-hoo! You'll be on your way to word #200 in no time!

My conlang, Hi'im, just reached 50 words! 50th word is ten̆ /teŋ/, which means "world". Heh, I remember when I first saw the title of your Hi'im thread. I misread it as "Hi, I'm a conlang!" Surprised ten̆ is the fiftieth word and not the ten th word. Anyway, congratulations. It ...

Here's a completely coincidental conlang false friend. The word for "parents" in Kankonian is homoses . Presumably this is related to helemas (mother) and hoimas (father). That word has been in the language for decades. Its excerptal form, meaning "parent", is homoset , which mak...

Just finished my long haul through the A-words in my friend's corpus. I ended up adding 1,582 new Kankonian words, as I went from having 87,780 to having 89,362. Definitely worth it.

Doing B-words should get me past the 90,000 mark!

Looks good so far. Reminds me of the indigenous tongues of Soith America.

Flavia wrote: ↑23 Apr 2024 01:53 Cool stuff! Though the new name looks a little similar to Nahuatl...

Wow. I didn't even realize this.