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I have a feeling that Qarsherskiy doesn't really know what he is doing ;) Definately enthusiastic about their work. Thats oft a good thing. That was my feeling, for sure [:)] We were all new to conlanging/conworlding once, and it's always nice to see someone come at it with enthusiasm. It's what we...

I've been looking at scale-building on and off for ages now, and I've only just worked out the whole "build on relative pitches" step you mentioned (3-2-3-2-2 as your example) and man that's helped understand, I think, a little bit better what makes a scale "good" (in terms of, l...

Said it before, and Ill say it again, this Board is excellent as far as behaviour and attitude goes. Feels like we get maybe a dozen reports a year, tops, unless someone really starts playing up. Most discussions are really nice, and even when things do start to get heated, they're still good discu...

Has Ryan Aditya become our new DarkGamma? Long story short, was warned, tempbanned, and then permabanned for their behaviour, came back as a different user about a year later, turned out they'd then spent a year behaving the same way, repeat same warning/tempban/permaban process. Came back again , ...

Has Ryan Aditya become our new DarkGamma? Long story short, was warned, tempbanned, and then permabanned for their behaviour, came back as a different user about a year later, turned out they'd then spent a year behaving the same way, repeat same warning/tempban/permaban process. Came back again , ...

sangi39 wrote: ↑20 Apr 2023 14:18

From Sangi39

► tblisikart has been banned for being a sockpuppet account for Anonymous999/Ryan Aditya/ΘOΛA, etc.
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The Qarshki language is a unique and very complex language spoken in the Islamic Sultanate of Qarsherskiy. Qarshkī borrows many loan-words from Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Kurdish, Turkish, French, Latin, and English. Qarsherskiy is usually written in the Arabic alphabet (ا ل م) but also is sometimes wr...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑17 May 2023 08:14 This really is a fun challenge. I recently tried to come up with my second guess but then I noticed it's too much for a 15-minute tram ride Sorry about that.

Haha, I completely get that I was trying to come up with replies betweem work and, well, more work

Initial attempt: 1) uːit 2) 'õgda < 1-2) [ˈũgita] 3) 'ŋũggeːt 4) 'ʔuŋŋaiθ < 3-4) [ˈʔũŋgai̯t] 5) pý'ⁿgás 6) pý'gî < 5-6) [pýˈᵑgés] 7) 'pýːcìʔ 8) 'pýətɕì < 7-8) [ˈpýə̯cìʔ] 9) 'pʰutɕijja 10) pʰo'ɕiʁ < 9-10) [ˈpʰut͡ɕiːʁ] 11) 'puʰcçil 12) 'puːssəl < 11-12) [ˈpuʰc͡çel] 13) 'funkt 14) 'ɸunks < 13-14) [ˈɸu...

My first guess, sorry for the delay: 1) uːit 2) 'õgda 3) 'ŋũggeːt 4) 'ʔuŋŋaiθ 5) pý'ⁿgás < ˈpuŋdait 6) pý'gî 7) 'pýːcìʔ 8) 'pýətɕì < ˈpýkīʔ 9) 'pʰutɕijja 10) pʰo'ɕiʁ 11) 'puʰcçil 12) 'puːssəl < ˈpuhcil 13) 'funkt (typo for /ŋ/ or is there no assimilation?) 14) 'ɸunks (typo for /ŋ/ or is there no as...

Ooh, tones. So let's try a tonal reconstruction then. (S=stressed, u=unstressed, H=high, L=low, HL=falling) 1)U 2)S.U 3)S.U: 4)S.U 5)H.H 6)UH.SHL 7)H:.L 8)SH.UL 9)S.U 10)U.S 11)S.U 12)S:.U 13)S 14)S 15)S.U 16)S:.U So, I guess 5,6,7 form a group, assuming that tonogenisis only happened once and ther...

So I've been working on evolving a conlang from a protolang I have, and I realized that I have a pretty big problem: I have 15 conjugations for every verb, which means every conjugation of my verbs need to go through those sound changes so I can get the results I want. I'm comfy with sound changers...

I'll wait to see if another person or two have a guess, but ɶʙ ɞʛ is right that the nasal in 13 and 14 should be /ŋ/

Creyeditor wrote: ↑04 May 2023 15:42 ... Jespersen's cycle ...

That's the word for it! Thank you!

Where do negatives usually come from? I'm struggling to find the form of a negative auxillary since *-na the old negative also appears in the negative. copula. I have *san "to lack" as a source but it already became the standard way of negating a noun. A good place to look might be French...

/p t k/ < p t c~qu* > *< qu > before <í i é e>, < c > elsewhere /s h/ < s~c* h > *< c > before <í i é e>, < s > elsewhere /m n ŋ/ < m n g > /j w/ < y uh~hu* > *< hu > syllable-initially, < uh > syllable-finally /r ʀ/ < r j > /i u/ < í ú > /ɪ ʊ/ < i u > /e o/ < é ó > /ɛ ɔ/ < e o > /a/ < a > Next: /p ...

Okay, so, threw this together fairly quickly: 1) uːit 2) 'õgda 3) 'ŋũggeːt 4) 'ʔuŋŋaiθ 5) pý'ⁿgás 6) pý'gî 7) 'pýːcìʔ 8) 'pýətɕì 9) 'pʰutɕijja 10) pʰo'ɕiʁ 11) 'puʰcçil 12) 'puːssəl 13) 'funkt 14) 'ɸunks 15) 'huontta 16) 'waːttə acute accents, grave accents, and circumflexes mark high, low, and risin...

Sorry for the delay, but here is the solution. The protoform was *kidekide. The grouping was [[[cilecira cideceda] sidiside] [[kezehize kiaxia] kiraikirai]]. With intermediate forms, the whole thing looks something like this. *kidekide -- cidecide --- cidecida ---- cilecira (Elvish) ---- cideceda (...

IANAL, and I don't have any particularly valuble experience in this area. But having said that... End result - We wrote up a full-page letter basically saying "we're not happy with this, ideally we'd like this instead", handed it to our team leader/manager/whatever, who handed it straight...