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1) I want to try out that dress in the window. (The dress is in the window)

2) I want to try out that dress in the window. (You want to try it out in the window)

3) Today we're going to discuss drug trade with the governor. (The governor is the discussion partner)

4) Today we're going to discuss drug trade with the governor. (The governor is the trade partner).

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1) I want to try out that dress in the window. (The dress is in the window)

2) I want to try out that dress in the window. (You want to try it out in the window)

3) Today we're going to discuss drug trade with the governor. (The governor is the discussion partner)

4) Today we're going to discuss drug trade with the governor. (The governor is the trade partner).


Watteetexu:

1) Xe mina tiga nnēla nā mai o kī ne xitte nē.
3) Xe mina tiga nēla nā mai kī ne xīte.
3) Pāna ta kima ma rāta me īmē xō koropilō lē ta tereka
4) Pāna ta kima ma rāta me īmē xō koropilō, xe lē ta tereka nē.

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1 我想試試看那個在窗戶裏的裙子。
1s want try.REDUP look that COUNTER LOC window within GEN dress
2 我想在窗戶裏試試看那件裙子。
1s want LOC window within try.REDUP look that COUNTER dress
3 我們今天要跟州長一起討論毒品行業。
1p today want with governor together discuss drug trade
4 我們今天要跟州長買賣毒品。 (more direct, 'Today we are going to deal drugs with the governor')
1p today want with governor buy sell drug
5 情遠離蛇。它真美，卻危險。它能殺死你。
please far stay snake. 3s.N very beautiful, but dangerous. 3s.N can kill die 2s
6 她對他笑因爲他的衣服上有個好笑的圖片。
3s.F towards 3s.M laugh because 3s.M GEN shirt on have COUNTER funny GEN image
7 我看她，但她沒看我。
1s look 3s.F, but 3s.F NEG look 1s
8 把牛奶從冰箱拿出來放在桌子上。。。哦，看見了，它已經在桌子上了。
CAUS milk from icebox take out come put LOC table upon...oh, look see PERF, 3s.N already LOC table upon PERF

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力在公蝦米????

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1) I want to wear that dress in the shop. (The dress is in the shop).
2) I want to wear that dress in the shop. (You want to try it out in the shop).
3) Today we're going to discuss food trade with the man. (The man is the discussion partner).
4) Today we're going to discuss food trade with the man. (The man is the trade partner).

Zidhgebzhail Edit: 11/04/12. I've just realised that I screwed this one up. Blame the lateness/my idiocy.

Speaker is a woman.

1/2) vila lizmwouth klaidwukhefa bAiklouneitsh. (Ambiguous).
1) vila klaidwukhefa hi-lizmwouth bAiklouneitsh..
I want to wear that dress which is in shop.
2) vila hi-lizmwouth klaidwukhefa bAiklouneitsh.
I in shop want to wear that dress.



'Klaid-' means 'an article of (man's) clothing', so 'klaid-a' is 'an article of woman's clothing', but can be used as a slang term (Zidhgebzhail's first and only thus far) for 'dress'.

'We' refers to a group of >2 men not including the listener.

3) gisukhwouth zvyk vengstnenting ozeing bAizhlon.
During today we will discuss food-trade with man.
4) gisukhwouth zvyk vengstnenting hir-ozeing bAizhlon.
During today, we will discuss food-trade which is with man.

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Valar morghulis.

Zidhgebzhail Orthography

Dan, I notice you keep your conculture pure. You always change the culture-specific words and names in your translation challenges.

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Hi, mate. I like your handle, btw. Ancient Egyptian?

I don't actually have a conculture, it's not something that interests me. I got into conlanging to help myself to learn more about languages. Zidhgebzhail's hypothetical speakers have acquired a vague sense of identity as a result of the vocabulary that I've extrapolated, but that's about it.

My alteration of words is more a case of laziness (I can't be bothered to invent new words all the time, since I find it by far the most difficult and least interesting part of the hobby) and a desire to keep Zidhgebzhail's vocabulary at a manageable level - it's already more than doubled in size since I joined here a few months ago (not that that's a bad thing, but I don't want to end up with page after page of words for a language that isn't real).

As far a personal names go, I tend to avoid them because English names often sound very strange to my ears when Zidhgebzhail-ified, since my dialect is non-rhotic and tends towards chopping out consonants and entire syllables wholesale.

Thanks for noticing, though.

Also, I think it's a shame you're considering scrapping Kankonian. I like it, and I think it'd be a shame (unable to avoid using the same idiom twice - damn!) to do away with it .

Dan

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Zidhgebzhail Orthography

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Zelsian (Khzayske)

UEL:

I start with the first two:



Sekawnan sejowdebeyn mersekowramayn.
[se̞kaʊ̯nan se̞ʤo̞ʊ̯de̞be̞ɪ̯n mɛɐ̯se̞ko̞ʊ̯ramaɪ̯n]
se-kawna-n se-jowde-bey-n mer-se-kowra-may-n
3sN.PAT-dress-PRS 3sN.PAT-window-stand-PRS 1s.AG-3sN.PAT-wear-DES-PRS
'It's a dress. It stands in the window. I want to try it.'
'I want to try out that dress in the window.' (The dress is in the window)


Merkawnakowramayn mersejowdemurmayn.
[mɛɐ̯kaʊ̯nako̞ʊ̯ramaɪ̯n mɛɐ̯se̞ʤo̞ʊ̯de̞mʊɐ̯maɪ̯n]
mer-kawna-kowra-may-n mer-se-jowde-mur-may-n
1s.AG-dress-wear-DES-PRS 1s.AG-window-do-DES-n
'I want to dress-try. I want to in-the-window-do it.'
'I want to try out that dress in the window.' (You want to try it out in the window)

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No, Kankonian, actually. Even though it does sound a lot like "Kemet", "khemehekis" is the Kankonian word for counterculturalist, borrowed from the Shaleyan "khemehek" (to rebel).



Oh! I see now. I was sort of imagining a planet with animals that are unrelated to the animals on Earth.



It doesn't have to be boring -- finding just the right combination of sounds for your concept can make your language very expressive! Consider, for instance, the following Kankonian words:

hilis: yellow
wowum: blue
karak: black
kokok: jet black; anus
shoip: tomato; pulse
vithev: meat
hozos: cube
dohak: square
losol: circle
mopiga: woman
heles: sun
phodos: moon
phizur: to sleep
abam: to eat
wakhir: to drink
weishan: to breathe
pomosh: air
bwolwo: eye
ne*et: nose (the asterisk is a voiced velar lateral)
bad: head
khod: ear
tzazhur: heart
tziyim: hot
yayar: to sing
yoili: yolk
iyidip: to yodel
shalut: sugar
khour: beer
vrop: grape
vropuwa: wine
thothu: cat
karaph: dog
bepis: apple
triilis: high



You keep it in a notebook? I use a spreadsheet program and .TXT files for my languages.

You don't want to end up with page after page of words for a conlang? Tell that to the creator of Arka.



Maybe you can invent native Zidhgebzhail names!



You're welcome.



Thanks. 8) And don't worry, Kankonian isn't going anywhere. That thread was just an April Fool's joke.

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31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!