New CBB

Shifted Mekoshan's vowel system a little bit. And now English /l/ becomes Mekoshan /w/

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Trying to work out the semantic spaces for Arimesean's -jaç, feele, thet, and roo. They're all in the "do, doing, done, POSS" family. I have a feeling the answer will be found in the pre-Contact period.

Watched a movie in Hebrew and Arabic--FYI, if you ever have the thought that German is a "guttural" language, just listen to Arabic. This inspired me to research said languages, and while I haven't done anything definitive to my main conlang (previously unnamed, but now it's "Classical Semps", a name which upwards of four conlangs have used before), I did write down a bunch of verb ideas and stuff. What I'm really interested in is word order... It just seems very different from IE.

I also fleshed out some sound changes from the "classical" to the "modern" language, but I don't like them.

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Deutsche Sprache = schwere Sprache
(kezdő)
אדָּאֶיויצת Adranivicu

Worked with possession and it's dependants, when I translated the Monty Python classic "She turned me into a newt!"

Added stop/fricative voicing agreement rules to HyPry. No more tz, ʒt, ds, bφ, vb, ʃz, etcetera consonant clusters that I cannot get my tongue around properly!

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I am a conlanger, a scuba diver, a belly dancer, an introvert, a reader, a writer, a gamer, a Superwholockian, a pianist, a clarinetist, a sailor, a CGI artist, a singer, a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, and a magic-bean-buyer. Who are you?

Worked out Keoriki's syllable structure.

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"Wait for the starvation of glaciers, chicken hamburger Noel Weber Arthur."

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Thought about the ablaut of Vtain in the diachronic perspective.
I have earlier had an ablaut series loaned from Sanskrit ai-e-a , but I found it doesn't fit the diachronics of my language, so I changed the order of the stages: e-ai-a.

I also developed some generative description for it.
- All final consonants are underlyingly voiced though the final obstruents are always devoiced.

I bought a domain today: http://constructedlanguages.net/

Now I just have to do something with it.

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Why does it say cliche?

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"Wait for the starvation of glaciers, chicken hamburger Noel Weber Arthur."

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Because it's the name of the hosting service.

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Added Optative and Hortative conjugations to Mekoshan verbs.

Mősaiñ!
mő-saiñ
2SG.OPT-sing
"May you sing!"

Lemgau!
lem-gau
1SG.HORT-go
"Lemme go!"

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I added Switch-Reference to Keoriki and made it completely ergative. Now I need to figure out clause-chaining

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"Wait for the starvation of glaciers, chicken hamburger Noel Weber Arthur."

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Got into my next music course and wore some grooves into my clavicals.

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I speak English and a touch of Gàidhlig.
I am creating a conworld, which I refer to as the Carrion Series, that will contain three languages, Iriex, Dvoen and Maxna.

Gave the Arasameans a horse to back in the Trojan War. (anyone know the Spartan word for war?)

Decided that Vtain has contrastive aspiration, but it's analysed as stop+laryngeal fricative.
Khark [kʰark]- is killing
kähark [kɐhark] - is being killed

I figured out how extremely large numbers work in Icastrian.

The largest native numerical root is mara, "one million." For higher orders, you can go one of two ways: the colloquial construction or the scientific construction.

Torvalykais karkamis "traditional count" or ókarkamis "old count"
1 billion - zümara "one thousand million"
1 trillion - maramara "one million million"
1 quadrillion - zümaramara "one thousand million million"
Och så vidare.

Sólykais karkamis "scientific count"
1 billion - joktajarmara - jokt- "one" (cardinal jokte) + ajar "over, above" + mara, literally "one [period] above a million"
1 trillion - haktajarmara, "two [periods] above a million"
1 quadrillion - vistajarmara, "three [periods] above a million"
Och så vidare.

The advantage of the scientific construction is it allows for clear and concise notation of extremely large numbers, such as are used in fields like astronomy. For example the scientific construction can express one tredicillion (1042) as haktaraisajarmara "twelve above a million," whereas the colloquial construction would be totally unusable: maramaramaramaramaramaramara.

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Decided to translate all of the Team Fortress 2 Meet the Team videos into Evelēranēl, Genljøŋ, and HyPry. Already got about a quarter of the way done with the Genljøŋ one.

Njänatøblïtqlige. Jø gøt… ärblitern.
I am Heavy Weapons Guy. And this… is my weapon.

Løqwexrën. Løqnqäja. Løqønit risinïtivwïliiggeqlëvaq sqüinit gi.
Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

And so on and so forth.

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I am a conlanger, a scuba diver, a belly dancer, an introvert, a reader, a writer, a gamer, a Superwholockian, a pianist, a clarinetist, a sailor, a CGI artist, a singer, a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hope-er, a pray-er, and a magic-bean-buyer. Who are you?

The colloquial version is absolutely usable!

The above colloquial version is exactly what I sound like after Glen Fiddich #haktaraisajarmara !!

It ought to be ο πολεμός [hɔ pɔ.le.mɔs]

...Unless there's a specific Doric/Lakadaimonian lexeme attested in the corpus that differs significantly.

Well... according to Carl Buck (BBuH), in Thessalian (northeastern Æolic dialect, rowdy centaur-rustlers & third cousins to the Doric Spartans) they said ταγά [ta.ga] for "time of war " or "war".

I'll get back 2 U if I find a Doric dialect lexeme.

I worked on a possible animacy-related direction to flavor Arasamean with.



thank you.

*applies the phonological filter*...assuming the [g] becomes a [t]...

(The) Trojan War, e Tata Heleh [e tæ.tæ he.leh]...possibly e Tatawe Heleh [e tæ.tæ.we he.leh]

wars = taca xo [tæ.'hæ xo]
(xo = plural)

I think the first provided word would become tolehos [to.le.hos]



take your time.