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Hmm. I would expect some kind of leveling in that situation, where the /ŋ/ just ends up falling in with the rest of the pattern, but that might just be me.

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It doesn't resemble Sami much anymore. I consider your phonology even too complicated to master. Maybe it gets clearer if I'll look it longer.

Why are geminates written vC? Are they?

/m n l s v/ are written <vm vn vl vs vv> when long.
The reason for the <v> is not really relevant anymore. Consider it a quirk, I guess.

Here is a preview, a little text.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/48761410/Forest-Praise

This is a cool text. I have a question though. Do the Siwa have writing?

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Yes!
They don't use the latin alphabet in the setting, because that would make no sense.
They have an extensive system of pictographs, common to all of Alopian people. I only have very few examples available right now.
They were used to mark territory, convey messages, for names (often tattooed) and generally just markings.

I have a full conscript that I use very often, but I'm still hesitating to give it to the Alopian people, because it doesn't really fit the context. I was actually writing the text above in the script yesterday and took a vague picture.


This is from a diary I keep in the alphabet.

It looks like Tamil!

Alopians are in North America, right? Or is it just a setting somewhat like North America? What's the level of technology? What do they right the pictographs on?

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Oh, that conscript looks great!

I will comment on the other stuff when I've looked it all over.

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Ón gráti sem jett barn kvéner jag syggji jett lag um deiðan...
[oʊ̯n ˈgɾaːtɪ sɛmː jɛtː baɾn ˈkʰʋɛːnɛɾ jaː ˈsʏd͡ʑːɪ jɛtː laː ʊmː ˈdɛɪ̯an]

Yep. Alopians are in Quebec, more precisely.

Here is a preview of the intro to the Alopians and Siwa.
This should answer questions. Although if you have more, DO do ask.

The migration across the Atlantic and Uralic contact seem like a little bit of stretch to me...

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Why? Basque people did it regularly, so did Icelanders, and possibly much earlier people of the X MtDNA Haplogroup.
Only about 15 people can easily get a people through in case of a population bottleneck.
10,000 years ago most of the North-Atlantic was covered in Ice.

I'm redesigning the format or my dictionary and I'd like to ask if you believe there is anything important missing, or just general ideas as to how to make it better. Right now there is a lot of space because I only started working on this like two days ago and it's a fairly slow process (compiling from like 90000 sources)

But there you go:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/49643734/LEXICON

I hope you don't mind if I fail at constructive criticism; there's just so much to read! I just have a question that's been bothering me for a while, and it's not really about the language itself...

When you mean "hundreds of pages", what goes into that? How long are sections? I'm just really curious, because my language notebooks feel so... skimpy compared to what I think Siųa is, and even the phonology. Your phonology is longer than the document that covers my whole language (albeit excluding the wordlist). So kudos on that, and I hope Siųa has a bright future!

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Well, when I say hundreds of pages I mean that I have many many pages of description.
Right now, and for the last months, I've been describing the verbs. I try to say everything there is to say about each part, by giving plenty of examples for each. I try to describe the use of everything in reasonable detail. But I often feel like I assume a lot of knowledge of the language from the reader.

I'm just shy about the English in the description. I feel like I can't make it sound good enough, just yet.
And there are so many inconsistencies when you have so much text, that I am constant reading everything I write to make sure everything is fine.

Wow. Sorry, I'm at work and I just reread what I wrote. Don't mind the insignificance.

Here are a few glossed texts.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/50884645/Si%C ... ssed-texts

INTERESTING EXAMPLES!

ehhamuasu kostomu dobmibma tapakka osi na
[ˈeh:ɑmuɑsu ˈkʰɔstɔmu ˈdɔʔpmɪʔpma ˈtʰɑpaʔka ˈɔsi na]
ehhamua-su kost-om-u-Ø dob=m-ibma tapak-ka osi na
detailed-cop.hab.transl.ass carve-past-pat.part-act handle-allat knife-gen 2p.sg.pron-loc ass.part
‘your carvings onto the handle of the blade are becoming detailed, I see’

dįikkate ṡindi atakka imanatįu oakibma ga kỉtkaisi satsi
[ˈʥɪʔkɑde ˈɕɪnʥi ˈɑtaʔka iˈmɑnɑʨu ˈɔaɟɪʔpma ga ˈcʰi:tkɑisi ˈsɑtsi]
Ø-dįikk-a-te ṡimi-di atan-ka i-man-a-tįu oak=ibma g-a kỉtkais-i s-atsi-Ø
tr-display-tr-link.adv bear.head-gen big-gen dit-come-tr-link.temp home-alat cop.past-ass smell.like.pitch-cop.past.ass 2p.pat-father-act
‘your father smelled like pitch when he came home bearing proudly a big bear head’


atyvmusta-ha de tįỉd-mo!
[ɑˈtym:ʊsta: de ˈʨi:ʥmo]
a-tyv-m-u-sta–ha de tįi<Ø>i-d–mo
transl-fat-inconl-ass.transl-pers–ass this.ina baby.stat–this.ina
‘this baby just keeps on getting fatter!’

usotsi tonta osomu te iįuri eukake ẻgika haįa se
[uˈsɔtsi ˈtʰɔnta ˈɔsɔmu de ˈijuri ˈeugaɟe ˈe:jiga ˈhɑja ˈse]
u-sot-s-i tom=ta osomu-Ø te iįuri-Ø euk-a-ke ẻgi=ka hai-a s-e
pass-give-hab-ass.concl.tr together ash-dat and spruce.pitch-dat produce-tr-link.goal 3p.pron.pl=elat glue-gen cop.hab.concl-infer.indic
‘ash and spruce pitch are mixed together to produce glue/gum’ (lit. ash and spruce pitch are given together so that/to produce out of them gum)

It's still very much alive and being described, and being used a lot. This text is about the displacement of a population of wolves whose size had become a problem. The title means "displacing the wolves". I know it's of no use for you really.



Here is a super rough list of words if you'd like to get a gist of what is being said:


tatska - to consider
kokkora nįanka - with a still mind
todattara - independently, freely, by oneself
sainia - secure, safe
kadla - enough
mikųa - to celebrate, to make a feast
saimra - alder
saumsukis - alder personification
-ɨkis - personification
uohke - for the honor of, for, to honor
tůsůkis - personified god
tõkkiauki - litter (lit. the borne ones)
tsġůli - skull (tsġůliska - the small skulls)
saiske - to cause, to lead to, (saskora)
sikka - to leave (alone), send back, to push back
pỉhku - , causative of pihlu, to be possible
tįenka - to diminish, make smaller
ỉ·tanta - number of members, livestock (ỉ- life, tanta < tami, maniness)
gagemima - compassion
keṡa - for (from someone, towards someone [of feelings])
keto - to look for, to search
gegna - den
tat·o·keu·i - to join something
tauri - warrior (pl. army)
seto - threat, shadow, loom
tama·kįuṡe - to infringe upon, to threaten
raibma (naraibma) - against
otįomi - to come together, to unite
nůvku - plan (nůk- to draw in sand, to make a plan, to make a strategy, to plan an attack)
tůnůksi - attack leader, planner
katakeki - to remove out of a place, to displace, to eliminate (place out)
ỉlasyvv- to propose, to show something to a group of people (show forward to)
sủrrie - sharp-toothed, tightly toothed
rỉ - tooth
(sủrka - tight, in tight rows)
tảiga ahtuttaita - take action (stand into doings)
atkanokka - wolf (tail-call)
pesamara - courageously (by being corageous, < pes-)
nikimi - the deaths
sini - probably not
saykla - to protect
oibu - to prepare, arm, weapon
tįita - only now, just now, newly
tsavmuri - thick forest
oḥia - all of a sudden
tįem- - to crawl out, appear from, to loom
saihna - inlet (poaksaihna - seal inlet)
moakįutįi - hunting territory
tatovvu - to spread somewhere

Here is the text with more of the story:

Wasn't that the one for foxes?

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I think what you've posted so far, and what you've posted links for so far, is very impressive.

I echo the requests for morphology, paradigms, and syntax.

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