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I need help determining what kinds of words might be borrowed and even replace native vocabulary in Vrkhazhian as well "rules" for fitting the foreign vocabulary into Vrkhazhian triconsonatal root system. The loaner language is question is Hussite, spoken by the Hussite peoples. They are long-standi...

I have at least these four kinship terms defined: nar-um "mother" dar-im "father" was-um "daughter" yas-im "son" And they have special possessed stems: nā- > nā-ni "my mother", nā-ti "our mother", nā-mu "your mother", nā-ku "her mother" dā- > dā-ni "my father", dā-ti "our father", dā-mu "your father...

Omzinesý wrote: ↑16 Apr 2021 13:53 What about 'a woman and a man'? Is it also a case?

Like a comitative? I only have like five cases so far because coming up with them is hard, but comitative sounds neat as well.

Been working on cases in Hussite, not entirely satisfied with them. Hussite is supposed to fulfill a role similar to Sumerian to Akkadian, but it sure sounds less like a Mesopotamian language and more like some weird Caucasian language cāḫuiḵ hāfaš 0-cāḫu-iḵ h-āf-aš SG-city-GEN PL-man-ACC [tʃʰɑː.χwɪ...

I have /ʟ/ too in Hussite, where I spell it <ḻ>. It contrasts with /ʁ/ spelled <ṟ>

@Ahzoh & others I contacted an independent publisher to print a sample copy. I'm not sure if the LCS provides such service, but we know that several conlangers made their own grammar books via other avenues. Oh cuz I saw the Tower of Babel picture on the book and I know that's part of their logo. I...

I'm not sure if I should be making more letters less tall and have their ascenders and descenders be more standard

One thing I notice about Semitic languages is that they don't seem to have a lot of homorganic nasal+stop clusters. /mb mp nt nd/ etc. Assimilation involving nasals and non-nasals is a common occurrence in Semitic languages. They also strongly dislike certain homoorganic clusters in the first and s...

^^I didn't even know the LCS made books. Something to think about when I have enough written in Vrkhazhian

Can a language have proximate/obviation distinction without marking nouns themselves? That is, only existing in pronouns, possessive affixes, and verbal agreement markers Isn’t that the usual thing in Niishnibaamwen (sp?) and other Algonquian languages? No, they have obviation markers even on norma...

Can a language have proximate/obviation distinction without marking nouns themselves? That is, only existing in pronouns, possessive affixes, and verbal agreement markers

Newish language, Hussite (Miṟi Hussuī [me.ʁe hu.sːu.iː) /m n ŋ~ɴ/< m n ṉ > /p pʰ t tʰ k kʰ q qʰ/< b p d t g k ḡ ḵ > /f s ʃ h/< f s š h > /l ɾ ʟ̠ ʁ/< l r ḻ ṟ > /a aː i iː u uː/<a ā i ī u ū> The vowels are [ɑ ɑː e eː o oː] when adjacent to uvulars. Syllable structure is maximally C(ː)CV(ː)CC That is, ...

You madlad

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Vrkhazhian now has ligatures. The seen ligature is ab in the first word.

Decided that numbers are nouns and they are mass/uncountable nouns, so they are always grammatically singular Cardinally: formula: numeral of nouns tibis śimā = one of houses śidiṭ śimā = two of houses ṣabās śimā = four of houses tuğut śimā = six of houses naḫar śimā = nine of houses ḫarāṭ śimā = tw...

While tryna figure out what to do about adjectives and whether they should be more nounlike or more verblike, I came up with a pattern fromwhich to turn nouns into verbs and those verbs into adjectives: sağilna "I am old" > sağğalna "I make old" > sağğalum / sağğalim "old" damimna "I am heavy" > dam...

Use <ĝ> like the Sumerians

Like, "Why do the sun rising/setting directions end in -st, and the polar stars' directions end in -th?" Because they're derived from earlier forms, much like mother, father, brother, and all the wh-words are. They thus at least have some objective internal history to them, no matter how opaque the...

Dormouse559 wrote: ↑25 Mar 2021 04:29 Humans like patterns. That might make the naming scheme more attractive for the conpeople. If anything, someone probably wonders why mağādum doesn't contain /b/

because it's an agent noun derived from a verb

Khemehekis wrote: ↑25 Mar 2021 02:57 Is the /b/ thing a coincidence, or is there a diachronic explanation?

Definitely a coincidence, but a suspiciously-artificial-like one

I am, however, concerned over the overuse of the phoneme /b/ in all these words
You have ḳebb- "ruler", lumb- "woman, wife", rēb- "man, husband", damb- "domesticated animal", and ēb- "wild animal" all common and close in semantic relation, all ending in /b/ or /mb/