The CBB

The morpheme -ko, I termed Volitional, derives from a word that means (more or less) 'to want'. (I have to think how it affects person paradigms. Are the volitional paradigms more adjective-like?) When it combines with Realis form, it expresses votionality. syko 'willingly does'. When it combines w...

I've decided not to include evidentials in this language after all. I think the verbal system is already enough, and honestly, I'm a bit worried about working out their interactions with the moods. I might re-evolve them later, though.

How do you say "river"? Is it just suhakkak or do you only use that when you say you're going somewhere? "Let's see. If I wanted to say 'that is a river,' I could say 26) taa suhak . I would only say suhakkak if something was ... at a river, or ..." He furrows his brow. "Or...

[Unnamed] Verb Agreement Predicates in this language inflect for tense, aspect , mood , and agreement . SUBJECT sg/pl 1 -ṡu / -cu 2 -la / -(ə)ljə 3 -∅ / -(ə)rr OBJECT sg/pl 1 -ṡu / -cu 2 -la / -(ə)ljə 3 -m(ə) / -(ə)rr Reflexive: -nyung nyajamcunyung nyajə-m-cu-nyung see- PRES -1 PL - REFL "We ...

lurker wrote: ↑14 May 2024 14:11

• Furthermore, some anti-human slurs find their way into English. Caudally challenged sweat factory is a particularly colorful one.

That's a wonderful insult ─ it looks like it's straight out of Calvin and Hobbes! It does seem too long to be a regular-use slur, though.

My personal favorite weird world shape is an infinite flat plane. Because of the fact that gravity bends light, it would appear as though you were inside an immensely large sphere, and you'd be able to see parts of the word you'd never be able to reach. (Well, I'm not sure if you actually could, sin...

Aaaaaa ʒe wil harthle tekke lot in at, ennae ʒe giar'k ennou ha no interessent tunger for at scape ei sʒain. Ʒe kun nitte eurcisc, ut the wirth nittet is meir interessent en ats grammatik. Ahhhhh I want to take part in it so much, but I don't have any interesting languages for making a thread yet. ...

[Unnamed] Mood Predicates in this language inflect for tense, aspect , mood , and agreement . This language distinguishes realis (unmarked), subjunctive ( mə- ), conditional ( rru- ), and imperative ( ji- ) moods. The realis mood is used for factual statements. jinymiṡu jiny-mə-ṡu run- PRES - 1sg &...

[Unnamed] Tense and Aspect Predicates in this language inflect for tense, aspect , mood , and agreement . TENSE AND ASPECT This language distinguishes past (usually -gə ) versus present ( -m(ə) ) versus future ( -w(ə) ) in tense, and distinguishes nonpersistent ( -n(ə) ) versus persistent (usually ...

Hmmm. So kuŋ means "language," but it also means "we (exclusive) sense them"? And r̼ɔt means "tree," but it also means "some (singular ???) are the two of us"? And how do you have number inflections on an anaphoric item meaning "all"?

Khemehekis wrote: ↑14 May 2024 03:03 Well, thanks for that link, @Arayaz, even if it is in a language I don't speak. At least I speak Spanish!

No problem! If I had a lot of time I might try to translate the relevant section into English, since I have some limited Portuguese knowledge, but I doubt I have the time to do it.

Has anyone ever made a lesson/guide for Xavante? That'd be useful for getting into the mindset of a realistic OSV conlang. I did a quick look for resources, and all I found was this set of lessons , which is in Portuguese. On an unrelated note: while trying to navigate to this post, I got a few err...

:con: griushkoent (without script here) raeskoz. saroz. eksoz. /'reskɔz. 'sarɔz. 'əksɔz/ win-ITJ. PL-V-IMP-ITJ. plus-ITJ Congratulations! Come on! There you go! You have a suffix specifically for interjections? Or is the thing you glossed as ITJ an interjection on its own? Also, your post was the C...

[Unnamed] Parts of Speech In this language, it is an open area of debate how many parts of speech should be considered separate. The leading analysis is that there is an open class of nouns and an open class of adjectives, both of which may be used predicatively (and encompassing most verb-like mea...

"The word for "go" in "We are going to the market." or "Let's go home." "That second one would be fawi khaþ ota , yes. We do not have a word for 'market,' but if I replaced it, say, something like 'we are going to the river,' that would be 25) suhakkak khaþ o...

"The word for "go" in "We are going to the market." or "Let's go home." "That second one would be fawi khaþ ota , yes. We do not have a word for 'market,' but if I replaced it, say, something like 'we are going to the river,' that would be 25) suhakkak khaþ o...

Another Sketchlang /t~d tʰ tʃ~dʒ tʃʰ k~ɡ kʰ/ <d t j c g k> /m n ɲ ŋ/ <m n ny ng> /s ʂ/ <s ṡ> /ɾ~z r ɻ~ȥ l j w/ <r rr ż l y w> /i u/ <i u> /ə~a~ɐ~i~u~∅/ <see below> /a~ɐ/ <a> The unaspirated stops are usually voiceless at word boundaries and voiced elsewhere; however, there is individual and dialect...

kiwikami wrote: ↑13 May 2024 17:44"You are related to us, from the Iḳà clan?" translates Maza, the one in green.

"Oh ─ no." I frown. "I'm sorry, I misinterpreted it ... Well, I don't have a clan; could I just say Ù·zàa Araıaz?"

Kesshin wrote: ↑13 May 2024 17:04 What about just "to go?"

"Ummm ... that'd be khaþ, I think? What do you mean?"

6) ejan jen moghan. 8) ejan jewo mozazezelh. Okay. I'm pretty sure ejan is a second person pronoun, since it's seen in the greeting. Now, jen is "rock," so jewo must be some other form of that ─ but what's the change? Is the noun marked for tense? And moghan and mozazezelh both have that ...