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I've uploaded the fourth main version of the Waku dictionary: The Great Waku Dictionary and Mini-Grammar
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Is there a way to access it without registration?
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Xing wrote:I've uploaded the fourth main version of the Waku dictionary: The Great Waku Dictionary and Mini-Grammar

:con: Wattētexu
Xē tewa nno we ēnu!
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I have just posted a major update to my latest language O Ayōndui. The syntax section is still missing, but the rest should be fairly solid now. Highlights include:

- The negative past tense auxiliary is sūshi. :mrgreen:
- There are a couple of relational pseudo-cases, which look very much like true cases, except that they actually function as derivational verbalizers.
- The grammar sketch contains a wealth of derivational morphology, roughly 40 morphemes so far.
- There is a closed set of only 21 lexical adjectives.
- The lexicon is now online, currently standing at 581 words.
- The language has gained a fairly complex possessive system, which I have not described yet, but it consists of the following elements: (a) possessive pronouns, used whenever the possessor is expressed as a pronoun; (b) a construct state suffix (the reflex of an earlier genitive preposition), used with inalienable relationships where the possessor is a full noun phrase; and (c) several different pseudo-case endings with primarily locative meaning, which also function as quasi-genitives but distinguish the type of possessive relation. (b) and (c) may also co-occur (and must even do so in specific situations). Stay tuned for this...
- The language will also have overdeclension (aka surdéclinaison) à la Basque, where an inflected word can be used as a base for further derivation. This is also not written up yet, but it will allow for things like this:

Code: Select all

zēhēmeffasshimakkani
zēhēmi-h  -h  -a   -h  -shim-a   -h  -kan-i
torch -DEF-COM-NMLZ-DEF-ESS -NMLZ-DEF-BEN-ATTR
‘for the one who acts as if he carried the torch’
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Wow, your conlang has really nice morphophonology.
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While I am keeping a lot of the basic phonological processes in my conlang Varangian (such as a hard/soft distinction in the consonants), I've decided to change the location to western Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man.

Interestingly, a grammatical distinction is kept between Old Norse unstressed /i/ and /a u/ as a result of softening of preceding consonants, despite all unstressed vowels > ə. This likely results in the preservation of the subjunctive in verbal morphology (although not necessarily, as Faroese lost it.) Additionally, the accusative merges with the nominative due to the Mannish tendency to drop final -r and a vocative case is innovated, just like in Irish.

I also want to grammaticalize initial mutations. It's not unprecedented in the Norse languages (often in Icelandic there is voicing of initial fricatives in casual speech, as if they were not affected by word boundary.)
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This is a map showing the expansion of Proto-Haxyakika languages, although I realize it's too widespread for a 2,500 year old family:
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Image Śād Warḫallun (Vrkhazhian) [ WIKI | CWS ]
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Writing alternative lyrics for the 1300s song Bryd one Breere (Bird on a Briar).
Since they are connected to my conworld Úrageard and (and I again use early southwestern Middle English), I think this gets a free pass.

Status: 3/4 of stanza 1 done.
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Ich fléo fram hóame fram Churchóame on werre,
Friþe cum to seo burȝwe burȝwe ful déore
alle folke sý éac, ȝebiddæþ alle world

[ɪt͡ʃ fløː fɹam hɔːmə fɹam t͡ʃʏɹt͡ʃhɔːmə ɔn wɛɹə
fɹɪðə kʊm toː sœ bʊɹɣʷə bʊɹɣʷə fʊɫ døːɾə
aɫɫə fɔɫkə siː ɛːk ɪbɪddɐθ aɫɫə wɔɹɫd]
I might record the result someday.
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Creyeditor wrote:Is there a way to access it without registration?
Oh, here is the public link.
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Xing wrote:Ko pauku a kia wara. – 'He killed the cat.'
[ko pʲaˈuːku‿a kiːa ɰɑːra]
PFV kill ERG 3s cat

Me pauka a kia wara. – 'He is/was/will be killing the cat.'
[mʲe pʲaˈuːku‿a kiːa ɰɑːra]
IPFV kill ERG 3s cat
Is that an error? The two different verbs, I mean.
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I'm back to fiddling with Proto-Híí and Híí diachronics. It's not an accomplishment yet, but it might become one?
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wrote a bibliography for my conlang...
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Ahzoh wrote:This is a map showing the expansion of Proto-Haxyakika languages, although I realize it's too widespread for a 2,500 year old family:
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What do the colours represent? What's the time frame and directions of spread?
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Xing wrote:
Creyeditor wrote:Is there a way to access it without registration?
Oh, here is the public link.
I really love that there two words for hamburger and one for icecream on the first page of your dictionary. Every dictionary should start like that.

I started dabbling with a Polyneselang. Nice, but not enough proto-words.
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elemtilas wrote:
Ahzoh wrote:This is a map showing the expansion of Proto-Haxyakika languages, although I realize it's too widespread for a 2,500 year old family:
Spoiler:
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What do the colours represent? What's the time frame and directions of spread?
The colours represent expansion. The time frame being 2,500 years.
Image Śād Warḫallun (Vrkhazhian) [ WIKI | CWS ]
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I wouldn't say that this is too widespread. Just look at the expansion Indo-European languages had 2,000 years ago (~3,000 years after PIE)
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Ahzoh wrote:
elemtilas wrote:
Ahzoh wrote:This is a map showing the expansion of Proto-Haxyakika languages, although I realize it's too widespread for a 2,500 year old family:
Spoiler:
Image
What do the colours represent? What's the time frame and directions of spread?
The colours represent expansion. The time frame being 2,500 years.
Okay. Kinda figured that it represents "expansion"... From where to where? Where's the urheimat? Does it coincide with political expansion?

The fun of unlabelled maps!

And I agree it's not too widespread. After all, IE spread from the Europe-SWAsia-India region to world dominance inside of 500 years.
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In the words of Jar-Jar Binks:
«Deesa mappa needa bombad legend or key . ¿Okee-day? »

Sorry. Recently watched the Phantom Menace on my Soul.

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cedh wrote:I have just posted a major update to my latest language O Ayōndui. The syntax section is still missing, but the rest should be fairly solid now. Highlights include:

- The negative past tense auxiliary is sūshi. :mrgreen:
- There are a couple of relational pseudo-cases, which look very much like true cases, except that they actually function as derivational verbalizers.
- The grammar sketch contains a wealth of derivational morphology, roughly 40 morphemes so far.
- There is a closed set of only 21 lexical adjectives.
- The lexicon is now online, currently standing at 581 words.
- The language has gained a fairly complex possessive system, which I have not described yet, but it consists of the following elements: (a) possessive pronouns, used whenever the possessor is expressed as a pronoun; (b) a construct state suffix (the reflex of an earlier genitive preposition), used with inalienable relationships where the possessor is a full noun phrase; and (c) several different pseudo-case endings with primarily locative meaning, which also function as quasi-genitives but distinguish the type of possessive relation. (b) and (c) may also co-occur (and must even do so in specific situations). Stay tuned for this...
- The language will also have overdeclension (aka surdéclinaison) à la Basque, where an inflected word can be used as a base for further derivation. This is also not written up yet, but it will allow for things like this:

Code: Select all

zēhēmeffasshimakkani
zēhēmi-h  -h  -a   -h  -shim-a   -h  -kan-i
torch -DEF-COM-NMLZ-DEF-ESS -NMLZ-DEF-BEN-ATTR
‘for the one who acts as if he carried the torch’
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[<3] [<3] the verbalisation ideas. Very clever and economical use of noun cases.
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Also, in addition to Basque, Etruscan also made use of surdéclinaison (a.k.a. Etruscan Agglutination). There's a second possible source to mine for ideas.

Keep carrying the torch!
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I did a little writeup about things I'm reworking in Híí diachronics.

The evolution of Proto-Híí to Híí has seen some interesting mergers due to extensive lenition. Here are some:

Proto-Híí *k lenited universally to in Old Híí. This approximant merged into any adjacent resonant, but otherwise went on to merge with *ŋ *l in intervocalic position as . This would then become modern Híí /w/ while coda *l survives as [l] before a consonant in some environments.

Proto-Híí *p lenited to *v in intervocalic position (but not initially or in clusters, unlike *k), which merged with *w after the first vowel shift (therefore *ew *ev → *ow *ew). *w later merged with *y (before *a *ɣ → o w).

*y went on to cause widespread assibilation before eliding or becoming /r/.

Btw, *y is /j/, in case that isn't clear.

Another accomplishment today was this idea for the Proto-Plains language.
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