The CBB

"So it would be... Látumai? " The child in green smiles. "You greet us both, yes!" Uzayíka Demi Faylynn. They look mildly confused, but catch on to your meaning quickly. The one in red appears significantly less certain. " ... Úsuǎhııka ?" they attempt to repeat your p...

For reference's sake (and for those who'd prefer not to read through so much text), I'll number and list all examples at the end. Please don't feel beholden to engaging with the roleplaying aspect here - I just enjoy writing, and frame stories, and it gives an excuse for the nature of the translati...

Someone else comes stumbling out of the undergrowth into your group, a slightly-disheveled man with twigs in his hair and the look of one who has been wandering this forest for... perhaps a while. He is holding a similar translator and mumbles into it, holding the resulting screen of symbols out tow...

Oh no. I play "pretend I'm doing fieldwork with my/someone else's conlang" all the time, this sounds like great fun, but I definitely do not have the time for... ...oh, darn it all, I'll join in on a few and start one for Alál. While it does have a forum thread, that thread (1) is rather o...

Have I mentioned I love this language? It's so beautiful and complicated. If I had three wishes, one of them might be to understand this thread ─ or to be able to live up to the standard it sets! [<3] [<3] I promise at least 50% of its complicated-ness is more the consequence of me not explaining p...

Te ta trans atut? Are you trans too, then? Mulas! ma<ul>as that<AFF>.O Indeed! Mrıtmàrlıàx ahà·muluas azà Is·Ṣalılıíha ráa Ṭǔluhùlhàḳǎma Kukàuár Zàı·zmıṭaì. mrı<ıt>m-àr-lı-àx ahà=ma<ul-u>as za<a#a>r̀ ıs=ṣa<lı~lı-í#a>h ráa ṭu<ùlv-ŕ>h-ùl-hà-ḳàm-á kukà<uá>r zar̀+vzmı<ṭaı>r̀ please<3.2>-HYP-PST-CVA in....

Háéni"schoolemail" waekwáé waexaexutwáé; háéniw̌aewaetáé háémyaei lhaexaelháéyae! Today my school email address is being changed to reflect my new name! Talùhùlısaıá! tla<ù>h-ùl-ısa-ı-á fortune<2>-AFF-continue E↥ -DUR-XV Congrats! Is·Aẓàxḳàma kuzaḳ tıǎm raúr Klıàmxaàx lkazata ahà·lakìzaút...

Siá siye vá! Yau séuvistadh ca paiasú. Ca ajhestia, yau hreyaus kempál paiasá ca ceia vo promyadh kahí ckané, yau hreyun estim vo limradh vaió. Hi everyone! I am new here. Actually, I have been a lurker here for a very long time however, I have finally become a real member. [:D] Ḷatumùlǎ! ḷu<atv>m-...

Any update here? Don't want to rush things, but if the torch has grown so long, perhaps it'd be best to only translate a portion of it, or to split the translation between multiple people; it seems like it might have gotten overwhelming (which would be understandable, this is a [delightfully] fiendi...

Oh, this is a neat idea!

Chiming in with Alál:

a á à â ǎ h ı í ì î ǐ k ḳ l ḷ m r s ṣ t ṭ u ú ù û ǔ x z ẓ

:con: Alál Úl·Ímrıḷîṭıṭ·zîṭamàıka xa·haıhrazíma amǐḷaṭà maì ímrıḷíṭí·zıllııumàk. [ùɬ‿ˌímrɨ́d͡ɮíˈtʼɛ̀t͡ʃʼíˌtʼɑ̀mɑ̀jɢ χá‿ˌçàjʝràˈʃímˤ áˈmɛ̀d͡ɮɛ́ˌtʼɑ̀ mˤɛ̀ ˈímrɨ́d͡ɮɨ̀ˌtʼɛ́ʒɨ́ɬɨ́jɤ́ˌmɑ̀q] úl=vŕ-mrı<vḷí>ṭ-ìṭ-zı<îṭa>m-à-ıka xa=ha<ıv>h-ra-zím-a ma<ìḷvŕ>ṭ<a>r̀ ma<aı>r̀ vŕ-mrı<vḷí>ṭ-vŕ-zı<l<lı>ı-u>m-à-k bec...

:con: Alál A bit of ambiguity here - is "it" the glass or the eating-of-glass ? Lots of ways to handle this: Maztalàǔlıṭàaxá ∴ Íxıxazırxàt. /máʃtáˈɬɑ̀òɮíˌtʼɑ̀ʕʁɛ́ ˈíɣɪ́ɣáʒɪ́rxɑ̀t/ ma<azv-tal>r̀-ùl-îṭa-à-á ∴ vŕ-xı~xı<azv>r-x-à-t eat<1-glass>-AFF-be.able.to-CONC-XV.ACT ∴ INV-HAB~harm<1>-ANTI...

It's still in testing, but I do really like this so far. I'm glad you found a solution you like! Thank you! As someone who doesn't know anything about (or has tried to do anything with) tones, this looks really fun. Oh no worries, I don't either. :'D I do study vowel formants and pitch IRL, but I d...

I was writing out a description of the naming system used by the conculture associated with Alál (which I nearly never talk about) for that thread on naming system in the Conworlds forum. ...But it has gotten rather long and grammatically complicated such that I may just turn it into another post on...

:con: Alál Is ur·Ḳazımlıaı lıẓıák mas : Ḷìḳıkáûax xazasa ḳıúṣ. [˹ɪs ɤrˈ˻ŋɐʒɪmɮjɐj ɬɪˈ˹t͡ʃjak mɐs ɪˈ˻t͡ɬeŋɪ˹ga˻wɑχ ˈxɐʒɐz ˹ŋjut͡s] ıs ur=ḳı<azv>m-lı-ı-a lıẓı<ıá>k mas ḷı<ì>ḳ-ká-ú-à-x xa<az-a#a>s ḳı<ıú>ṣ while within=walk.aimlessly<1>-PST-DUR-VOL.ACT forest<OBL> that.OBL fall<4>-down-onto-CONC-ACT hea...

:con: Alál Zıımzíkıríh haıh : Zıumzíkuḳíh ḷaẓu. [˻ɕjɪm˹ɕigɪriç ˻çɐjç ɕɪvm˹ɕigɤŋiç ˻tɬɐdʒv] zı<vım-1vŕkv>r-í-h ha<aı>h zu<vım-1vŕkv>ḳ-í-h ḷu<a#u>ẓ sire<3.4PL-all O >-STAT-VOL.ACT sky<AGT> bear<3.4PL-all O >-STAT-VOL.ACT earth<AGT> The sky sires all; the earth bears all. Translation challenge: 16/100

Alál

Atìktasǔlı atìsìṭraım.
[˹ɐ˻tektɐso˹ɮi ɐ˻tesetʼrɐjm]
ta<ì-ktv>s-ùl-í ta<ì>s-ìṭ-raı-m
exist<4-0s>-AFF-STAT exist<4>-NEG-NOMPAT-STAT
No nonexistent thing exists.

Translation challenge: 15/100

I feel like the "featural palindromes" concept I've been toying with for V4.1 is definitely "extreme" in several ways. tl;dr: (1) All constituents are discontinuous, combining through a process of "looming" with strictly-defined parts of speech, (2) all roots are of som...

Vue quaj çõçõ ? CNJ INTERR.ADJ.M.SG «chonchon» ? But what sort of Earthquake Bird? * Chonchon is not my own invention; props go to Spookylord. I googled and found this on a Speculative Evolution forum on giant Avian creatures of the Neozoic Era~! Also reminds me of preprotospec-evol-deity-at-large ...

Losanni kenoljano aninwaŋka. Losanni pomulano aŋkwalinoŋkan. lOsan-ni kEnOlE-(n)o an=in-Oŋka | lOsan-ni pOmula-(n)o an=kÓ-in-Oŋka-n(a) head-TOP sentence-ERG 1sg=STATIC-have | head-TOP formula-ERG 1sg=NEG-STATIC-have-NEG [lo.'san.ni ke.no.'lʲa.no aŋ.'kʷa.li.noŋ.kan] I understand that. I don't unders...