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by Shemtov
07 Mar 2024 22:59
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
Replies: 6
Views: 1977

Re: Zeigouŋdeizese

Numbers (AKA the Janko post): Zeigouŋdeizese has a base-20 number system, with a subbase of 5. Numbers 1-20 1 Iha 2 Ca' 3 Auzi 4 Caaŋ 5 Lau 6 Lauha 7 Lauca' 8 Lauzi 9 Laucaaŋ 10 Ciŋc'aal 11 Ciŋc'aaliha 12 Ciŋc'aalca' 13 Ciŋc'aalauzi 14 Ciŋc'aalcaaŋ 15 Całim 16 Całimiha 17 Całiŋca' 18 Całimauzi 19 Ca...
by Shemtov
05 Mar 2024 23:22
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Adding a naming system to a "normal" conlang?
Replies: 11
Views: 663

Re: Adding a naming system to a "normal" conlang?

I don't think it should work with the gods though since even though they aren't omnipotent they were created primarily from the dying body of the creator god after they had overexerted themselves when they used too much mana creating the earth. The five original gods were made from the five limbs o...
by Shemtov
05 Mar 2024 22:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347281

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

If a language only has a singular/plural distinction, but descended from a proto-lang that marked dual and Paucal (3-5) on the noun, how naturalistic would it be to say that if a noun phrase has 2-5 as a numeral, the language does not require plural marker on the noun? Or is the opposite more natura...
by Shemtov
29 Feb 2024 07:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Non-decimal number systems in conlangs
Replies: 18
Views: 857

Re: Non-decimal number systems in conlangs

The current plan for Zeigouŋdeizese is base-20 with a subbase of 5.
So, 1-5 have unique names
then
5+1
5+2
5+3
5+4
Half-completeness (10)
Half-completeness+1
Half-completeness+2
Half-completeness+3
Half-completeness+4
3 5s (15)
3 5s+1
3 5s+2
3 5s+3
3 5s+4
One Count
by Shemtov
28 Feb 2024 06:19
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Surprising cognates
Replies: 153
Views: 106363

Re: Surprising cognates

Dothraki erin "to be kind" Norwegian ire "Irishman" English penguin (likely, not certain) More words from PIE *peyh₂- "Fat; Milk" Tamil பாயசம் /paːjɐt͡ɕɐm/, [paːjɐsɐm] and Telegu పాయసం /pa:yasam/ "Khir; Rice Pudding" Borrowed from a Sanskrit word meaning &quo...
by Shemtov
23 Feb 2024 22:58
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 275132

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

I still am sometimes confused by the Insular Celtic definite articles resembling Germanic and Romance indefinite ones: :irl: an , :wls: yn etc. vs. :eng: a(n) , :fra: un etc. :hun: Hunagarian too with a ~ az for the definite article, with the same " a before a consonant, the other form before ...
by Shemtov
23 Feb 2024 22:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang word easter eggs?
Replies: 133
Views: 35819

Re: Conlang word easter eggs?

In Zeigouŋdeizese, since the Waanic family is inspired by Mayan and Austronesian, I often take Proto-Mayan and PMP, and Old Malay/Old Javanese words and adapt them to PWaanic phonology and phonotactics and evolve them through the sound changes from PWaanic to Zeigouŋdeizese. Given that the religion ...
by Shemtov
22 Feb 2024 05:31
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Random musings on World of Fuhe concultures
Replies: 6
Views: 1864

Re: Random musings on World of Fuhe concultures

Weidjitaakic Spirituality was a cluster of religions practiced in Greater Zeigouŋdeiza, though they also had much of their formative ideas from Greater Hic'ag, and thus many Weidjitaakic ideas were expressed using Hic'agese loanwords, often duoblets of native Zeigouŋdeizese words (since both are mem...
by Shemtov
15 Feb 2024 20:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
Replies: 6
Views: 1977

Re: Zeigouŋdeizese

I've been unsure how to present the rest of the language, but I landed on the conclusion that I should have waited to present the genitive phrase until after the verb, which I will present now: The language has Austronesian alignment. The verb in its citation form is in the active voice, contionuos ...
by Shemtov
15 Feb 2024 01:43
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Altlang Ideas Discussion
Replies: 101
Views: 26829

Re: Altlang Ideas Discussion

An interesting thought that occurred to me earlier on when working on my native american influenced vinlandic conlang. A creole descendant of 17th century English and Algonquian, presuming a different outcome from the failed Roanoke colony. Algonquian would be the superstrate and English the substr...
by Shemtov
13 Feb 2024 06:25
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Naming Practices
Replies: 54
Views: 33888

Re: Naming Practices

It's quite an interesting time for this thread to pop up again, since I'm preparing both linguistic and religious infodumps on the Zeigouŋdeizese language and spirituality, and was unsure where to put naming practices. Zeigouŋdeizese people have at least Three Names at birth, and gain a Fourth somet...
by Shemtov
28 Jan 2024 03:44
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
Replies: 6
Views: 1977

Re: Zeigouŋdeizese

The genitive phrase: Inalienable possesion is formed by adding the possessive suffixes directly to the possesum. Possessive suffixes: 1P sing: -(i)n 1P Plr. Incl. -(i)nek 1P PLR Exlcl. -(i)naanu 2P sing: (y)ek 2P Plr: -(y)eŋta 3P Sing. -(w)uu 3P plr: (y)eim So from Leŋjeil "foot" Leŋjeilin...
by Shemtov
23 Jan 2024 18:43
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 275132

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

jam is The two forms might actually go back to the same Proto-Indo-Iranian form *ǰámaHnas, making the two forms distantly related cousins. Huh, I always thought the Persian was a borrowing from the Arabic, and that it is a Semitic term, as it also exists in Hebrew and Aramaic. I guess the Persian f...
by Shemtov
23 Jan 2024 03:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
Replies: 6
Views: 1977

Re: Zeigouŋdeizese

CV Reduplication is an important part of the language, and causes the following morphophonological changes to the reduplicated vowel: <aa>, <ii> and <uu> shorten, <ai> and <au> monophthongize to <ei> and <o> repsectively, <e> becomes <a>, and <eu> changes to either <u> or <o>. This last change is co...
by Shemtov
21 Jan 2024 04:12
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
Replies: 6
Views: 1977

Zeigouŋdeizese

Zeigouŋdeizese is a Waanic language, specifically the Lingua Franca of Greater Zeigouŋdeiza, the westernmost part of a a large peninsula (and small islands off the coast of said peninsula) on the southwest part of the Island of Waan, which is located about 4KM off the Northeast coast of Fuhe. The la...
by Shemtov
12 Jan 2024 22:10
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Random musings on World of Fuhe concultures
Replies: 6
Views: 1864

Re: Random musings on World of Fuhe concultures

Before I explore Zeigouŋdeizese Religions, which are various schools of thought in a system I will call Weidjitaakic Spirituality, I want to discuss an aspect of the World of Fuhe that is key to understanding Weidjitaakic Spirituality. For all concepts that I discuss I will give the Fuheko and Zeigo...
by Shemtov
01 Jan 2024 09:24
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13815

Re: Lexember 2023

Shemtov: Day 24: Weid /we:d/ [weɪð] Noun: 1. Common Knowledge 2. A concept in Zeigouŋdeizese Religion that may be freely rendered as "The Self-Evident Universal Truth and Knowledge". 3. Common sense I like the look and sound of this word. Full discloser: This is a little Easter Egg to the...
by Shemtov
31 Dec 2023 21:45
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13815

Re: Lexember 2023

Day 31 Wiña /wiɲa/ [wiɲa] Verb. 1. To be united 2. To be in a complete/total state Bonus words derived from above word: Wiñaak /wiɲa:k/ [wiɲa:k] Noun: "Totality" Wiñaim /wiɲaim/ [wiɲaim] Noun: Unity Zili'aatimwiñaak /θiliʔa:timwiɲa:k/ Noun: "Universal Soul (Zeigouŋdeizese Religion)&qu...
by Shemtov
25 Dec 2023 05:52
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13815

Re: Lexember 2023

Day 24: Weid /we:d/ [weɪð] Noun: 1. Common Knowledge 2. A concept in Zeigouŋdeizese Religion that may be freely rendered as "The Self-Evident Universal Truth and Knowledge". 3. Common sense Day 25: C'u /t͡ʃ'u/ [t͡ʃ'u] Noun 1. Deity 2. Anything divine Day 26: Juluzi /d͡ʒuluθi/ [d͡ʒuluθi] No...
by Shemtov
24 Dec 2023 06:56
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Lexember 2023
Replies: 319
Views: 13815

Re: Lexember 2023

spanick wrote: 24 Dec 2023 03:17 Lexember 23

Yemya
ba /bɑ/ v. “to speak” from PIE *bʰéh₂ti
So by a posteriori historical derivation, you've created Sheep-Human hybrids as your conpeople? [o.O] [xP] [xP]