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Zidhgebzhail , in which 'yes' always answers in the affirmative, regardless of the phrasing of the question. I: dy gisuufwouth koerbjeim klygIn? d-y gis-uuf-wouth koerb-jeim kly-g-I-n? 2-ABS.SG.MASC most.recent-day-INESSIVE.SG.MASC market-LATIVESG.MASC QUESTION-PAST-go-SIMPLE Went you during yester...

I want money. I need money. I lack money. Zidhgebzhail: vil kjedhefk Ouneivd vil kjedhefk Ouneitth vil kjedhefk Ounoi / vil kjedhoitef Oun v-il kjedh-ef-k Ø-Ou-n-ei-vd - I want to have moneys. 1.ERG.SG. money-ACC.M-PL PRES-have-SIMPLE-OPTATIVE-will v-il kjedh-ef-k Ø-Ou-n-ei-tth - I need to have mone...

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them. Zidhgebzhail, with an attempt at retaining some sense of poetic meter: terkidoed hong mautefk Uutstoan, terkidoed hong mautefk Ieghen, terkidoed hong mautefk Oadien, hiedzh mautefk khevagwout...

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. With an example of Zidhgebzhail's use of the dummy-verb 'hyn' to indicate explicit verbal focus. boedaing zoed Aizhlonoips hyn, bjukhaing [zjukh] Aizhlonoivd hyn. boed-aing zoed-Ø Ø-Aizhlo-n-oi-ps hyn, bjukh-aing [zjukh-Ø] Ø-Aizhlo-n-oi-vd hyn e...

They said: "We are going to the house". (A group of men and women were on their way when I spoke to them). zaik gAizhlon: "zvaik igaarrjeim Id" z-Ø-aik g-Aizhlo-n: "zv-Ø-aik igaarr-jeim Ø-I-d" 3-ABS.-PL.ANDR PAST-say-SIMPLE: "1+3-ABS-PL.ANDR house-LATIVE PRESENT-go...

I'd have thought this one would have been done to death already, but a quick search doesn't bring anything up. Sorry if it's a repeat, but I think it'll be an interesting one to see in other conlangs. And to my fellow Northerners (if any), the interjection's just for you. English "Come, let us ...

"paki" is a slur against all Middle-easterners? I didn't know that, I thought it was only a slur against people from Pakistan and India and thereabouts.. Like Lodhas I originally thought it was just a word for Pakistanian. That's the thing about racial slurs, they tend not to be specific....

It's very ethnocentric (or the linguistic analogy thereof) to think that features of your natlang are ubiquitous and that a language lacking that particular feature would feel as though it lacked anything to native or even speakers who speak both your native language and the language missing that f...

Sorry, I can't speak English. Can you speak Zidhgebzhail? Two options, firstly, turning the nouns 'English' and Zidhgebzhail' into verbs with a rough meaning of 'can speak [language]': brevaz, vy joibzIngingkebzhailunops. dy klIzidhgebzhailunops? brevaz, v-y joibz-Ø-Ing-ing-keb-zhail-u-n-o-ps. kl-Ø-...

"I know how to count to 10 in Indian". [o.O] The following are paraphrases of things I have heard people say or have had said to me over the years. - 'Does anyone speak Hindu?' - Because apparently the Hindu religion is a language now, so I'm curious to see what Hindi has turned into - I'...

Thanks for [the] replies, everyone. My mind has been put to rest.

And I'm pleased to note that [the] action of my mind having been put to rest is telic.

Dan

vy ha-Dan hiedzh vy ha-zhahOenshinoz-seeseebeeraa (I be Dan and I be be-addicted-man CCB-of) v-y ha-Dan-Ø h-iedzh v-y ha-zha-Ø-h-Oenshi-n-oz-siesiebie-raa 1-ABS.SG.MASC COP1-Dan.ABS.SG.MASC SUBORDINATOR-and 1-ABS.SG.MASC COP1-NOMINALISER-PRES-PASSIVISER-addict.SIMPLE-man.ABS.SG.MASC.-CCB-.OBJGEN [və...

Hi, Just a quick question relating to the grammar of my conlang. Is anyone here fluent in a language that does not use articles or does not normally express definiteness gramatically? If so, I'm curious. When speaking this language, do you 'feel' the lack of the articles in any way? Do you find that...

Zidhgebzhail: Person - Ingkeboz - English-folk-man (an Englishman living anywhere) - Ingkebeshoz - English-folk-land-man (an Englishman living in England) - Ingeshoz - English-land-man (a man living in England who may not be English) Language - Ingkebzhail - English-folk-language (English) - Ingkebe...

My own conlang has only a very small vocabulary at the minute, but one coincidental English-Zidhgebzhail correspondence tickled me when I first realised: '-Oubvae-', is the core of the verb 'drink', which attentive readers may notice that this is derrived from the French 'buvez' - '2PL drink'. When ...

Still sorting out my IPA transcriptions, but everything here is identical to British English pronunciation except 'y', which represents a schwa. 'zh' is pronounced like the 'J' in French 'Jean'. He is taller than me: zy ha-voeng nomoengst (he be me-as taller-as) z-y ha-v-oeng nom-oeng-s-t 3-ABS.SG.M...

Hi. This is my first post to the board about my first attempt at a conlang, Zidhgebzhail. vil defa Ain (I see you, or, more accurately, 'as for me [a man], I see you [a woman]') v-il-Ø d-ef-a Ø-Ai-n 1SG-ERG-MASC 2SG-ACC-FEM PRES-see-SIMPLE or vil defa Ainops (I can see you, or 'as for me [a man], I ...