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I have no idea what I'm doing anymore. Xuína: /t k ʔ ʦ ʧ s ʃ x χ n j a i ɯ/ <t k ʔ c č s š x x̌ n y a i u> Prosodically Xuína has two syllable types: "Reduced" syllables of the form CV, and "Full" syllables of the form CV́V CVV́ CVʔ. CV́V have a falling tone and CVV́ a rising ton...

IMO the only good things that come from religion (standard definition) is actually the result of community: The shared identity, and the support networks that such community creates, and you can have these things without spirituality and without systemic oppression and injustice that comes from the ...

My own religious views absolutely influence not only the content of the invented religions in my constructed worlds, but also my approach to crafting such religions. Religion, such as it is, is a tool of power, and thus ultimately a tool of oppression. Its function is to provide a structure in which...

I literally do not know any other way to make anything interesting conlanging-wise because I'm a failure as a person

I'm a great big very mentally ill baby who requires a constant stream of validation to not implode

Eldin why do you remember my April Fool's jokes from 2011

I have no idea what I'm doing anymore conlanging-wise but I was messing around and accidentally came up with an aesthetic I like, probably will just make a naming language out of it tho, if I do anything with it at all ẍuú saʔnáašuʔwa xaʔxaína tiʔšaá cuʔčuʔsa yuʔníaʔi ẍaúhíusuúhi tíasaʔta níanihúi ʔ...

Would anyone care if I started conlanging again

This is one of those "art, not science" deals. Just mess with the numbers until the output is something you like.

Is it unnaturalistic for a language to have verbs that only conjugate for the object instead of the subject? I want to make a topic-prominent language with polypersonal agreement where the subject can be deleted entirely from the verb if it is marked as the topic, and the object can be omitted if i...

Would you say this language is a... Snōkoan?

I'm bored of this project already.

núraízakái goumóasóʔ héttaʔío reízazú?
nú=raí-zakái gou-móa-só-ʔ hétta-ʔ=ío reíza=zú
PREP=after-arrive\3s.A head-pain-CAUS-NF be.alone-NF=2s.COP believe\2s.P=Q
Do you think you're the only one who worries about the future?

This doesn't make much sense because the construction is clearly a biclausal one, with the upper verb incorporating the complementizer and eating the agreement of the subject along with it. I can't think of any naturalistic mechanism that could block this whenever the two clauses don't have the same...

How would this work with a sentence like "I stabbed you because you stole my pig?"

Shemtov wrote:Is it totally unnatauralistic for a lnaguge to have an enclitic that attaches itself to a conjugated verb, which allows another verb to go unconjugated while taking the conjugation of the first; ie the opposite of converbs?

Examples?

Chagen wrote:Is it plausible for a simplification of a particular construction to occur alongside its non-simplified counterpart without overtaking it?

It is not just plausible, it's extremely normal.

Probably the closest to this that's happened is some language where agreement is hosted on a clitic rather than on the verb itself (e.g. Warlpiri) where the subject and object clitics become fused. That's not really what you want though. The closest I can see to something you want that's naturalisti...

The Chosen of Yen'darik is a theocratic monarchy based on the principles of Yen'darism . Yen'darism teaches that all of reality is a corrupted, degenerate representation of a perfect realm simply called Heaven. Heaven contains copies of everything in our reality, including people and places, but in ...

What happens if the executor's policy goal is unreasonable? Is there anybody who is able to take the executors aside and quietly tell them their goals aren't possible, without being at risk for execution? Freedom of thought and expression is surprisingly encouraged in the Imperium, despite its dict...

I see. What happens if things don't run so smoothly? Then you have a succession war, with all the death and destruction that implies. The last such war was over 300 years ago, and it led to the Imperium breaking apart into several nations. This only lasted for about 70 years before the Imperium was...

The Second Executor has no access to life abbreviation technology? They do, but a Second assassinating a First has not happened in centuries. That's part of the reason why the First and Second share so much power, to give the Second as little incentive for assassination as possible. It's actually t...