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Gorgeous! the only thing that strikes me as a little jarring is is that the right angles in 田 and especially 畑 look a little too perfect- maybe have the lower horizontal strokes echo the slight curve of the top one, or use the tapered-at-the-ends stroke you have in characters like 一 and 王.

/r/, if you're in Western Europe...

How does /ʔ/ <q> fit in?

Intervocallically, I'd assume.

Okay, so in Mbär I've got two locational cases, the key difference between them being that one indicates static or unspecified position relative to something, and one refers specifically to motion relative to it- a sort of combined lative and ablative. So you get: ɂił qo-nu ḱwë qo-nu in house-LOC1 a...

Here's what I have so far for my new project, Mbär Ce Nhgeñ : Consonants: http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/1008/mbrcenhge.png Interpreting the one series as 'aspirated ejectives' feels kind of kludgy, but I'm not sure how else to do it. My mic's not working at the moment so I can't look at them in p...

If the writing system is "complete", it may: a.a) Encode each unit of whatever it is supposed to represent equally (that is, give each a full glyph/letter/character). a.b) Encode different units differently (like, encode only some segments a full character, while others are marked through...

You know, I just thought of something interesting. Can anyone name off a piece of fiction that: - Includes at least 2 non-human characters - Who talk to each other - About something other than a human or humanity in general I'm... actually having a hard time thinking of any. The only ones that come...

OK, definitely think I'm gonna switch <ts> to <z> - I was already considering it, and you guys have tipped me over the edge. I'd really prefer to avoid <j>, though- it's the wrong color for the language, maroon while the rest of the orthography is a nice mix of rich yellows and pale blues. Anyone kn...

Why not just use <z> for /ʒ/? --- Anyway, here's the beta version of Tirfan, a new lang I'm working on. I'm rather fond of the plain-palatal-aspirated distinction. Anyone know if it's attested anywhere? /p pʰ t tʲ tʰ k kʲ kʰ/ <b p d dy t g gy g> /t͡s/ <ts> /f s h/ <f s h> /m n/ <m n> /r l j w/ <r l ...

THATS TVV PAT, LVTHAS. PVT IV MVST ATMIT, VHAT IT LAKS IN INTILITSHIPILITI, IT MVR THAN MAIKS VP FVR IN IKANIMI ANT IFFISHINSI. THINK VF ALL THI IKSTRA RVVM VE'T VPIN VP VN KIIPVRTS!

Some male lions never develop manes - does this happen with any frequency among any groups of Kaynur? If it does, what's its cultural significance? How is infanticide regarded among the Kaynur? It's fairly common for male lions to kill off an ousted rival's cubs in order to return the females to est...

So I just reread this entire thread and it gave me a horrific idea: Eroworld, the conworld consisting solely of various sexual fetishes. Who wants to help me with this one? Ooh! What if there's a specific fetish for each little society, and it dominates their culture; like the foot fetish people ha...

Keenir wrote:

denarii wrote:
Next: sah

Loan word.

A style of tight leather pants


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Pfodo- a geographic feature

At least according to a rather hastily-written press-release from Macquarie University that connects it to the Paleo-Balkan languages.


Thoughts?

Visinoid wrote:It's Norfuk (Norfolk). It has Tahitian influences.

Ayup! Got it.

Your go, Visinoid.

Akzálī wrote:Spoken in Pacific?

Aye.

@eldin: nope!

Akzálī wrote:Dutch or a English-based creole?

the latter.

thought so- restricted phonology, <s> before <i>, but <t> everywhere else, etc. Anyway, here's mine: Hiidrojen esa kemikil element, a' es nambe wan a' d' pieriodik taebl. "H" es t' kemikil simbil o' hiidrojen. Et em standid kondeshun, hiidrojen esa gas a' nowt haa smell, taist a' kul'la. H...

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