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Orwell's works are pieces of fiction, and what goes on in them does not have anything to do with how real languages work. But if you're serious about this corpocracy-based conlang, I suppose Newspeak gives the idea that the lower ranks would have (publicly) restricted vocabulary, while the higher r...

I remember first discovering I could articulate these weird, kind of squeaking, popping click sounds when I was 4, of which I can produce clusters of in isolation, they're much more difficult to integrate with pulmonic phonemes. It's only recently that I've started to properly analyze them phonetica...

Te Reo Māori has /ɸ/ (allophonic with /f/) and /h/ but no /s/.

Onure is base-15, but most of my conlangs are base-20, and don't have zero.

You poor fool.

threecat wrote:My language Angaha
/p t k b d g/ <p t k b d g>
/f v s h/ <f v s h>
/m n r l j/ <m n r l j>
/a e i o u/ <a e i o u>

No /z/?

I've got a tripartite system for my pronouns, with Ergative, Accusative, Absolutive and Dative forms, the last two being identical except for first person exclusive.

What's most likely to be the unmarked form, Ergative or Accusative or Absolutive?

Probably Te Reo and other Polynesian langs, Quechua, and recently Ancient Greek.

Onure:

Ocogmutu momoroe!
eat<CAUS>-NEG PL-troll
Do not feed the trolls

Can I take the red circle? https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60915672/collectiveconworldalpha.png The Lands of the Ngāroakoi. Mount Ngawēka in the south, its peak is said to be the bridge to the stars. The smaller Mount Iura just to the north is where the Ngāroakoi built their ancient city of Eoku...

What happened in Lathia during the Fall of Rome? Did it play a part in the Crusades, or the World Wars?

Yep, Negative Agreement for both arguments of the noun phrase, since neither of them were descended from primates.

Onure .Pa sae epene camus he zunru gae peramene ątą gu cantta.

DEF-SG-PROX girl run.PERF circle.LOC DEF-SG-MED tree.GEN and-then kick.PERF 3-ANM-ERG DEF-SG-DIST ball.

11 words, 25 syllables. That feels too long.

Bump.

What a lovely little derailment! Ready to get back to the purpose of this thread? The question is still: Next: What would your conculture think of hipsters? I can't answer because I don't know what a hipster is. Anyone else want to answer it? Next: What would your conculture think of hipsters? Onure...

Next: What would your people think of gambling addiction? Onure would probably be confused by the term addiction; however, betting is often considered good social practice. Their customs dictate that the winner of the bet owes the loser a gift of some kind, failing to do so being very bad form. On ...

Proto-Onure:

Zaga’uta co’ag anzata oza tantemra’e Attoscen .
go-INCEPTIVE 1.ERGATIVE-COMITATIVE noon at wagon-GENITIVE Attos-ALLATIVE
start-to-go with-me noon at his-wagon to-Attos
At noon his wagon will go to Attos with me.

Lao Kou wrote:Next: thoughtful, pensive

Proto-Onure: oguzu [oŋʉtsʉ], thoughtful, pensive, careful, distant

Next: tutor

Lao Kou wrote:Next: fthíbauls ['fθibɔls] a noun

relaxation

Next: agurus [aŋʉɹʉs], an adjective

kiwikami wrote:Wávbúso... TARDISab.
The fridge... is a TARDIS.

Zúúlo hoshm ráhhí.
Zuul is a Time Lord.

Gós’pusterseb báfítsh Tórtshwudu.
The Ghostbusters are working with Torchwood.

Metst.
Yes.

Araraha co'o.
see-INTENSIVE 1-ERGATIVE.
I'd watch that.