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- 03 May 2024 02:41
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 107
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Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
Are you against using X or C for the alveolo-palatal sibilant? I use X in Hapoish, Quispe, Txabao, and Javartu. Oooo, <x> could look quite nice. I usually dislike it for /ʃ/, but as in this case I think it tends more towards [xʲ] it could work very well. Thank you! You're welcome! Glad to be of hel...
- 03 May 2024 02:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4847
- 03 May 2024 00:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1137
- Views: 296696
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Here's a good post on it:LinguoFranco wrote: ↑02 May 2024 20:30 I don't remember if I've asked this already or not, but can anyone tell me about how topic-prominence works in Imonda?
I'm just really curious how a topic prominent language works outside of Asia.
https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=32 ... da#p329472
- 02 May 2024 14:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4847
- 01 May 2024 17:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4847
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- 01 May 2024 17:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4847
- 01 May 2024 17:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4847
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
I'm more of a perfectionist or whatever that's called in Khemehekis's typology. I scrapped Abaniscen multiple times and remade it, and the only thing the versions have in common is a single syntactical feature. And doing that actually helped me make "better" conlangs later. So maybe it's ...
- 01 May 2024 07:26
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1372
- Views: 364956
- 01 May 2024 05:19
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Lehola Galaxy Megathread
- Replies: 56
- Views: 21764
Re: Lehola Galaxy Megathread
Today I created the ya ya nang, a red flower of Chatony that grows on graves, Chatony being where the nila bioswath (Dorsals) live. It's my first non-animal creation for that planet and bioswath. I needed the word to provide an etymon for "vulture", as in one who profits from another's/ot...
- 01 May 2024 01:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4847
Re: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
Just wow. I'm going to repeat what I, as an anthropologist of scrappers and other conlanging types, said in March: It's in the nature of the scrapper to find that one fatal flaw with each of his/her languages, be it a logistical, proof-of-concept, or strictly aesthetic flaw. Maybe Ruykkarraber can b...
- 01 May 2024 01:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 673
- Views: 174182
Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
Just realized that I reached word #90,210 -- as in Beverly Hills! The word was blumia , meaning "bindery, bookbindery". Blum is a verb meaning "to bind", like binding books, and -ia is a suffix for place words, including Kankonia itself (unlike the Indo-European suffix -ia, thoug...
- 30 Apr 2024 02:25
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Replacement puns
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2302
Re: Replacement puns
I'd heard of Nacogdoches, Palestine, Plano, Highland, and Pearland. But never Alief.eldin raigmore wrote: ↑30 Apr 2024 01:21Did you ever hear of Alief Texas?Khemehekis wrote: ↑30 Mar 2024 03:32 Today I learned a new replacement pun: alief.
https://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/alief
- 29 Apr 2024 17:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Arayaz's thread so that she doesn't flood the forum
- Replies: 107
- Views: 4847
- 28 Apr 2024 21:06
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Hi'im conlang
- Replies: 19
- Views: 528
Re: Hi'im conlang
So this is the Hi'im conlang thread, or "Hi, I'm a conlang!" Cool how you make you many words with so few roots. I like this part. Word order as the distinguishing factor between an active participle and a passive participle. That sounds like a good use of syntax in conlanging, unique yet ...
- 28 Apr 2024 21:01
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 673
- Views: 174182
- 27 Apr 2024 06:38
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
- Replies: 673
- Views: 174182
Re: Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth
My conlang, Hi'im, just reached 50 words! 50th word is ten̆ /teŋ/, which means "world". Heh, I remember when I first saw the title of your Hi'im thread. I misread it as "Hi, I'm a conlang!" Surprised ten̆ is the fiftieth word and not the ten th word. Anyway, congratulations. It ...
- 25 Apr 2024 23:48
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
- Replies: 892
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Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Here's a completely coincidental conlang false friend. The word for "parents" in Kankonian is homoses . Presumably this is related to helemas (mother) and hoimas (father). That word has been in the language for decades. Its excerptal form, meaning "parent", is homoset , which mak...
- 24 Apr 2024 00:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 759
- Views: 219439
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Just finished my long haul through the A-words in my friend's corpus. I ended up adding 1,582 new Kankonian words, as I went from having 87,780 to having 89,362. Definitely worth it.
Doing B-words should get me past the 90,000 mark!
Doing B-words should get me past the 90,000 mark!
Re: Katebá
Looks good so far. Reminds me of the indigenous tongues of Soith America.
- 23 Apr 2024 01:58
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 759
- Views: 219439