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If Pnunskstrimslarkskrak and Iunaoewaeotauyeoaki came together, oh what phonotactically nightmarish children they would make. O_O

Hey ronin. You haven't posted anything new here in a while. Are you still developing Hiirawə?

Because that's his hobby.

Thank you for explaining the difference between a neography and orthography, it was appreciated. So, essentially, a neography becomes an orthography when it's "released to the public".

You are misusing the word "orthography". "Orthography" is the way words are written in the writing-system native to the language in question. A conlang's orthography is the neography or con-script used to write it. Does this mean Cyrillic is a neography of Greek which was a neog...

For me it's Dune hands down. Frank Herbert created the perfect science fiction novel.

Uxli: ut'wantu [juːt wan tuː] or utuwantu [juːt ә wan tuː]= melodrama n.
(In the Uxli language the schwa can be either pronounced or dropped (orthographically replaced by an apostrophe).)

Next Word: scatter

tev wrote:In my conlang Vanya the cases of a noun and the forms of a verb are marked by articles, but has this system a name?

Could you expand on the 'forms of a verb'. For example: does the tev affect tense, aspect, mood, etc.?

tev wrote:

focle wrote: I like this thinking outside the box. gram-lex separation is a bit wordy IMO. It should be called a tev, in honor of its creator.

:-D

I thought you'd like that last part

:eng: Englishman, English, English speaker / anglophone, England :deu: Deutsche(r), Deutsch, Deutschsprachige(r), Deutschland :nor: Nordmann, norsk, norsktalende, Norge :swe: svensk, svenska, svenskspråkig / svensktalande, Sverige :nld: Nederlander, Nederlands, Nederlandstalige, Nederland :usa: Amer...

Ok, I will tell you a bit about my articles. An article has a stem i-, then there is a plural marker, when the plural is used -r-, and at the third position is the case marker like -a for objects. Question: What function does the <i-> perform? I think moving grammatical elements (eg. articles) out ...

Cyrenean: IFIΓØΣ [i fiɹ əs] = joy, joyousness n.

Next Word: catastrophe

Itsuki Kohaku wrote:Arabic and Chinese/Japanese calligraphy is simply amazing in beauty.
For Arabic it simply looks very elegant in the way you string the graphemes together.

I second this...

I'm a loyalist.

I have several conlangs I started way back when I was a teenager. Now they languish in a drawer and haven't seen the light of day in decades. Even though I haven't worked on them in years I haven't scrapped them. Maybe in the coming years I'll revisit them, but I'll never scrap them.

Cyrenean: ƂEDUKØƩ [ẟіː ⅾᴜː kǝѕ] = catatonic adj.; БЕⅮUKΠNIƩ [ẟіː ⅾᴜː kɒ niѕ] = catatonic n.

Next Word: cumbersome

My main motivation was thinking about newbie conlangers (like me!) who, in the face of deciding how their lang should handle something, automatically assume the English (or other relevant L1) way is the default way. The trick to shaking this assumption is to see just how special your L1 really is. ...

My main motivation was thinking about newbie conlangers (like me!) who, in the face of deciding how their lang should handle something, automatically assume the English (or other relevant L1) way is the default way. The trick to shaking this assumption is to see just how special your L1 really is. ...

(This isn't an original fake etymology, but I read it somewhere and it fit's perfectly after Veris' post :P) Actually, the word "fuck" came from the time of the Bubonic Plague in Britain. It was believed that the Plague spread through a various of means, one of which was intercourse. Ther...

MrKrov wrote:Also, I've now noticed this is the wrong forum section.

Is it? I figured discussing the use of etymologies would fit under Linguistics & Natlangs. If I'm wrong where should I place it?

Is there a downloadable X-SAMPA font available?