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arilando wrote:

Xing wrote:How do you count to ten?

one na
two nana
three nanana
four nananana
five nanananana
six nananananana
seven nanananananana
eight nananananananana
nine nanananananananana
10 nananananananananana

what happens if the speaker has a stutter?

MrKrov wrote:Which of the two options for forming desideratives is nicer? 1) Adding a complementizer after a clause and then treating that as the object of a "want" verb OR 2) compounding a verb with a "want" verb?

No.1 is, imho. and neater.

I think it would be nice if there was something with steps, so that if you followed the tutorial 1 step 1 to step 50 you would end up with a fully-functional, coherent conlang. It might not be particularly interesting, but it would provide complete beginners like me learning the ropes. Some example...

would this use of _e_ (a new clause I'm contemplation) also qualify as a relational?

O jaç ři-ji-hutur.
* do wing-bird-over.
A bird flies overhead.

O jaç ři-ji-hutur e xaashe.
* do wing-bird-over * foreigner.
A bird flies over the foreigners.

arilando wrote:Phonemes
god

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interesting start; do continue this.

(i imagine missionaries would have a fainting spell if they met these people, though) :)

At some point today, the Arasameans switched from being cyclopian neighbors of the Ancient Greeks...to living on an island in the Pacific Ocean during the 20th Century. This may or may not switch back; not sure. a refresher of words from earlier: ři- = wing -we = family, tribe, people chiri = shark ...

This post will be about the various uses of the word falota , or pangolin ...and using falota to introduce us to a few aspects of the language. COOKING (up a) MUTATION: o valota * a bundle or sizeable measure of meat (or a few root types) which are boiling, or have been boiled. O rootiir valota O ro...

1. Distinction between transitivity and intransitivity for semantic disambiguation. sounds interesting; aye. 2. Inclusiveness and dual agreement despite really 1PS subject. I vote Aye! --------------------- For marking questions, should I keep sentance-final u , or replace it with a particle/suffix...

welcome. but this is the first conlanging forum I've ever been a part of. After only I few days I have unlearned several biases and opinions that I have developed over the years. quick learner; kudos. I suppose when I made my first comment, and its responses, I was more focusing on explaining these ...

kiwikami wrote:Greetings. Newbie to this forum here -

Greetings.
Nice to meet you.

... the translation is: I will walk by you, always Of course "by" can be changed to "with" och "next to" as well, the english meaning is pretty much the same Can "by" be changed to "past"? Like, "I will walk past you, always"? Meaning &quo...

More of with & against... O veele-jaaçe sawa-chiri tje Clause keep*-do{against} large-shark girl (Against her will) she was turned into a large shark. * = transitioning, changing, undergoing. O veele-jaaç-hich sawa-chiri tje Clause keep*-do{agree}-it.is.seen large-shark girl She was willingly t...

Ossicone wrote:Amjati.

!!

looking forwards to reading it.

worked on word order* and coined a few new words.


* = "can this follow an action? can it follow an action when it's already following another particle? should this suffix on the noun or the verb?"

So the suffix you have turns "the most-expected action" into "the second-most expected action". not quite. it doesn't turn it into it...(except in terms of modifying the root word or base)... instead, it replaces it. {i admit I could have phrased it better before; my apologies} ...

Cool! [B)] Thank you very much. By "the 2nd expected action", do you mean "the action expected if the first action isn't done", or do you mean, "the action expected to be done right after the first expected action"? Or both or either or neither or what? the first. if t...

This is a fun experiment you can do with your conlangs. Go to Google Translate, set the "Translate From" language to "Detect Language," then paste in a sample sentence into the box. What about yours? :-P VERY fun; thank you. an early version of Unnamed Arasamean: lirricotzoxaat ...

The part in parenthesis was one of the few parts of an early draft which survived the revisions...which includes the markers. Unnamed Arasamean: O i vava flariixat O i vava fla-rii-xat * #marker want (2eat-2doing-I)=(you eat me) Don't you eat me! If not followed by a number, the count marker indicat...

<ory> replaced <on> for sub.clause. O i tuja (ory) halots rye-tuja * # dugong (SUB.clause) expected.action LOC-dugong the place expected to have dugongs, has no dugongs. yeah, I think I might stick with that. -------- a bit of irregularity: given that atom bombs are not people (though some Arasamean...

Today, I borrowed Piraha's idea of a word meaning "the expected action"...and then expanded it with a suffix that turns it into "the 2nd expected action." (and a typo along the way, led to something else below) O halots chiri * {the expected action} shark the shark swims O halots...