The CBB

I noticed that the guide did not explain that writing materials determine the appearance of a script . Salmoneus already wrote a post about writing materials, so I just incorporated that as a part of the guide. Sorry if it was not clear. Maybe I should make a table of contents in the first post. On...

Every now and then I think about continuing it. I probably will, eventually, but I always end up working on some other project first. Thanks for showing interest! It's nice to know people would appreciate more of it.

It looks interesting. It's nice to see a large selection of discourse particles; it's a feature I rarely see in conlangs. Like sangi39, I have doubts about stroke order changing just because writing direction does. Stroke order is more than just direction, it's also generally the easiest way to bala...

I assume the same logic applies to the Nazi Planet and the Roman Planet, just Terrans didn't notice the disappearance. Guys, watch the episode! They definitely did notice. A Starfleet historian was on an official observation mission on the planet, but then he broke the prime directive and tried to ...

Yiddish /vulkans/ "clouds" :eng: Vulcans This made me laugh, as I didn't know the Yiddish word, but the rest of the sentence it occurred in in my Yiddish learning book "The sky is full with" I could understand, and the new word /vulkans/ made me laugh, even though the word was i...

巫 and 母 in oracle bone script look nothing alike though. That doesn’t mean the words themselves aren’t related. They may have already been considered separate words in Old Chinese. Indeed, it's important not to confuse script etymology with spoken language etymology. Words of common origin are some...

Ghoster wrote: ↑26 Mar 2018 23:14 So, thank you everyone for your answers, it really shed some light on what kind of an approach I should begin it with.

話してから３ヶ月が経ちました。日本語の勉強はどうですか？進んでいますか？

I don't think buying a good book is a waste of money.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E6%99%82%E4%BB%A3%E5%88%A5%E5%9B%BD%E8%AA%9E%E5%A4%A7%E8%BE%9E%E5%85%B8%E3%80%88%E4%B8%8A%E4%BB%A3%E7%B7%A8%E3%80%89-1967%E5%B9%B4/dp/B000JA6C7G If you have 30,500 yen to spare. Also it's 1967, so any reconstruction developments made since then won't be in it. Contents unk...

I have to say I like how the tenses are represented phonetically through sound changes, but graphically through the use of a separate character. I did pretty much the same thing in one of my own languages (but for pluralization), but I quite like the way yours works. Do you have a list of all the so...

Japanese has stuff like this too since it took Chinese vocabulary but ignored the tones. So we have things like 校門 kōmon "school gate" and 肛門 kōmon "anus" (both gates, of different sorts). Also since you're talking about diarrhoea, the name Gary gets Japanesified as Geirii , even...

Ah, I didn't know there was a ᵻ. Thanks!

It doesn't exist. You can build it, but it looks like garbage in this font: ı̵̣

I've wondered about Ame, because you have posted very little on the grammar of the language. I will have to read up on this thread.

So the glyphs have no specific meanings yet?

k1234567890y wrote: ↑11 Apr 2018 14:25also should I change the aesthetics?

It's your script, and you should do whatever you feel like doing.

Very Chinese-looking, and quite different from the last sample of Ame I saw. Do you have an English word list?

Yes, I would like to know more about this one as well, it looks very good, very syriac-inspired. I assume it's an alphabet, because you're marking vowels, but sometimes I lose track of them. Is it because of ligatures, or is there something else going on? Also can you share the process of making it...

Of these I'm also aware, although I tried to find some answers about simplified Japanese and failed to. How common are they? Because if it comes to Chinese, for the most part I could just skip learning any traditional ones whatsoever, because it seems that most of the country standardized on simpli...

I don't know any good websites or anything, sorry. Things that can be tricky for learners of Japanese include politeness distinctions and the extreme head-final directionality of the language, which for me was a major hurdle early on in my studies, because nearly everything is essentially backwards ...

pbastronaut wrote: ↑23 Mar 2018 00:06In case you're interested in the etymology here, I took "天", "ама̎ң" from the Kyrgyz "асман", "sky", and "語" "юу̎" from the Old Chinese /*ŋaʔ/.

I had just assumed Japanese, because 天 can be pronounced ama in Japanese.