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I'm not sure "human" is the right word here, since they're clearly not humans (or mammals, for that matter). what makes you think so? Chalk it up to a difference in technique? I suspect it's a(n understandable but unnecessary) combination of excessively literal reading of "human"...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑19 Feb 2021 13:40 I'm not sure "human" is the right word here, since they're clearly not humans (or mammals, for that matter).

what makes you think so?

Pabappa wrote: ↑19 Feb 2021 13:25 Very nice work. Is the hinai fruit kept within the culture or do they export it to other areas nearby?

maybe exports to nearby areas

The Ame people are an ethnic group of humans of the Nokema islands of the Nousa Kingdom, they make up about 5% of the population of the Nousa Kingdom in modern times. Physiology Members of the Ame people look like East Asians in appearance and have a relatively pale skin, and genetically they are se...

Japanese 牛 /ɯ̟ᵝɕi/ "cattle" v.s. Old Norse uxi "ox"

I just got another idea for Damta: the language hat

I tried to develop the background for Town Speech, that West Germanic language with heavy influence from Japanese and Sinosphere cultures.

I might post my current ideas in "Conworlds & Concultures" later.

@Ahzoh how about largely keeping the original system but modify the /e/ to something else and change the length of the -i, -a and -u endings? I can't really do anything to the /e/ because as I have it's basically like /n/ is the plural marker in basic state while /:/ is the plural marker in constru...

@Ahzoh

how about largely keeping the original system but modify the /e/ to something else and change the length of the -i, -a and -u endings?

Japanese ゆり (a female given name, often written as 百合) v.s. Russian Юрий (a male given name, cognates with English George)

both of them are pronounced as something similar to /juri/ but Russian Yuris are male, while Japanese Yuris are female.

Japanese -な (an adjectival ending) v.s. Czech/Slovak(and other cognates in other Slavic languages) -ná (feminine form of -ný, an adjectival ending)

Speaking of the sex of Rireinu, a group of conpeople of mine is also all-female. The speakers of Ame (and later Town Speech , as Town Speech speakers later intermarried with Ame people intensively as they settles at the ameland) are also a all-female group, but they are basically humans, though it i...

I have a conlang whose roman transcription contains a digraph ae , and I want to replace it with ä or æ , should I do it? also which one would be a better choice? For context, what does <ae> represent? What does the rest of the transcription system look like? for this language: https://conworkshop....

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I have a conlang whose roman transcription contains a digraph ae , and I want to replace it with ä or æ , should I do it? also which one would be a better choice? For context, what does <ae> represent? What does the rest of the transcription system look like? for this language: https://conworkshop....

I have a conlang whose roman transcription contains a digraph ae, and I want to replace it with ä or æ, should I do it? also which one would be a better choice?

English cybernetics (from which the prefix cyber- is derived) and government both of cybernetics and government are ultimately derived from Ancient Greek κυβερνάω "I steer". p.s. in modern society the government is sometimes metaphorised as a machine, which kinda is another connection betw...

DOOO EEET *ahem* I mean, I think that is a very good idea. thank you for suggestions >< but I need to do it persistently and I also need to sort out my ideas first. Besides I have not only one conworld but several conworlds, though I want to make them interconnected physically(the in-world peoples ...

nice (:

maybe I should also make mine

I have also followed you on deviantart and have seen you developing Ririenutire to a great extent on CWS in case you wonder

English Norse "the collective Scandinavian people" v.s. Swedish nors "smelt(fish)" Is that a sense-verb with an incorporated object? Like “saw(stars)”? Smelt is the name of a kind of fish, which before checking on it, is what I assumed K1234567890Y meant. yeah I was talking abou...

sorry for triple posting, but got another one.

Classical Latin Ūranium "a town in Caria" v.s. New Latin uranium "uranium"

It seems that native Latin speakers of Roman era might have problems understanding the Latin language used as a source for modern internationalism.