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by Ketumak
25 Jul 2017 19:49
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ular: Old brooms sweep clean (hopefully)
Replies: 20
Views: 5405

Re: Ular: Old brooms sweep clean (hopefully)

Hi. The Ular phoneme inventory looks interesting. You've got a lot of unusual features into a small set of phonemes. Any more thoughts on when the front allophones of back vowels might occur? I'd suggest at least after alveolar consonants. You could get more complicated though and throw in a harmony...
by Ketumak
29 Mar 2016 14:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631561

Re: What did you accomplish today?

That sounds a good way of looking at these things.
by Ketumak
29 Mar 2016 13:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631561

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I find the best method for me to kill a conlang is to declare it my Main Project where I'm going to get everything "right". [>_<] That's bad luck. I hope I'm not that far gone, myself, but yes, if you tell yourself something is just a side project then good enough is good enough, you writ...
by Ketumak
26 Mar 2016 21:17
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631561

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Making surprisingly good progress with the framework for Öklane. This is the language of invaders from another continent encountered by my main people during the early modern era as travel gets easier. Influences are Finnish and Japanese. (I don't know much about either of those, but I don't need to...
by Ketumak
17 Mar 2016 20:15
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: Esperanto-based conlangs
Replies: 11
Views: 3150

Re: Esperanto-based conlangs

Jeffrey Henning, who used to run Langmaker, came up with one called Sen:esepera (meaning "without hope", if I recall correctly from Langmaker). This is inspired by Esperanto rather than diachronically related to it and it aims for maximal simplicity. See here: http://www.datapacrat.com/Tru...
by Ketumak
24 Jan 2016 20:42
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631561

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Yup, that's how it was at our house back in the '60s. There were also more stay-at-home housewives in those days, so amongst many other jobs they would try drying clothes outdoors then whip them in quick at a sign of rain and hang them on a clothes horse in front of the fire. I remember my mother do...
by Ketumak
24 Jan 2016 17:39
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631561

Re: What did you accomplish today?

Not just Wisconsin. There's a similar chance of success with outdoor drying here in the north of England. My own accomplishment today is that I've posted an overview of Old Lemohai-Letsuri on my blog. This was the immediate ancestor of the modern Lemohai and Letsuri languages. The real world model f...
by Ketumak
21 Jan 2016 20:13
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Proto-Atlantic Society
Replies: 2
Views: 1373

Re: Proto-Atlantic Society

It's an interesting system. I particularly like how potters and smiths are regarded as "unnatural" and therefore lowly. I guess that's because their work is creating things that do not exist in nature and that nature is somehow highly valued in the Proto-Atlantic belief system? I'm less co...
by Ketumak
07 Jul 2015 19:44
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Tópico de conversação português | Portuguese Conversation Thread
Replies: 32
Views: 62323

Re: Português

… e sim, os outros erros eram os meus.

Obrigado Squall pelas correções e pelas informações sobre o dialeto Madeirense. Eram muito interessantes.
by Ketumak
06 Jul 2015 21:07
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: The CBB Conlang Census
Replies: 119
Views: 175686

Re: The CBB Conlang Census

Õtari : a priori artlang (2010 et seq); Tekuo conworld. Nom-Acc. Analytic. Features noun classifiers, and much valence adjustment. Transitive clause: SVO. Intransitive clause: SV/VS. (Proto-language for Lemohai). 850 words. (edit): The full grammar pdf is now embedded in this page , towards the bot...
by Ketumak
06 Jul 2015 20:31
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Tópico de conversação português | Portuguese Conversation Thread
Replies: 32
Views: 62323

Re: Português

É bom que ha um outro aqui que fala português! Quanto à questião: continuo buscar - à biblioteca e ao JSTOR.
by Ketumak
04 Jul 2015 21:06
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Tópico de conversação português | Portuguese Conversation Thread
Replies: 32
Views: 62323

Re: Português

Uma questião. Ha pessoas aqui que conheçam ao português de Madeira e dos Açores? Que so as maiores diferências entre issos e o português europeu?

Obrigado em avança.
by Ketumak
29 Jun 2015 20:15
Forum: Beginners' Corner
Topic: First conlang advice and tips
Replies: 12
Views: 3440

Re: First conlang advice and tips

Welcome! I see your first list, the one headed "Alphabet" includes some cyrillic letters mixed in to a largely Roman script. I don't think I've seen that done before - a neat idea! I wonder if it's what you intended though, as these aren't defined with IPA in any of the following lists. Pe...
by Ketumak
21 Jun 2015 17:23
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
Replies: 11462
Views: 1631561

Re: What did you accomplish today?

I've had a surprisingly productive afternoon, considering I'm tired after a late night. I've posted again on my conlang blog, the first post that isn't just site news, that actually contains conworld content. Behind the scenes, I've uploaded a widget that enables me to change the font on my chosen t...
by Ketumak
08 Jun 2015 19:21
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What do you base your conlang romanizations off of?
Replies: 25
Views: 5893

Re: What do you base your conlang romanizations off of?

A variety of factors. Like several people above I look for easy typing, especially now as I do more work on a tablet with a restricted character set. I could add more of course, but it's a tablet and extra software reduces performance. I think about IPA but also about common European usages. For exa...
by Ketumak
20 Apr 2015 20:54
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Yabushio: timeline
Replies: 152
Views: 43555

Re: Yabushio: maps, flags

I am also liking these flags. They're simple, yet original.
by Ketumak
05 Feb 2015 20:28
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Tópico de conversação português | Portuguese Conversation Thread
Replies: 32
Views: 62323

Re: Português

Creio que < d> é /d/ em português europeu, e /ð/ entre vogais.
by Ketumak
05 Feb 2015 20:25
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Yabushio: timeline
Replies: 152
Views: 43555

Re: Yabushio (now with rough history)

I like the history, too. And thanks for the geographical info. The history explains how a nation that size can survive with major powers either side of it. Any thoughts on the economy yet? I suspect it's a tax-haven in the modern world, perhaps with some hi-tech electronic companies (Japanese, South...
by Ketumak
03 Feb 2015 21:17
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Yabushio: timeline
Replies: 152
Views: 43555

Re: help me with the history of Yabushio

I've been looking at how this thread has grown since I saw it last and I found the maps which made me think - do you have basic geographic info for Yabushio? Things like: area, population, population density, population of capital, max distances N-S and E-W for the main island? Just curious. For my ...
by Ketumak
22 Jan 2015 19:18
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Tópico de conversação português | Portuguese Conversation Thread
Replies: 32
Views: 62323

Re: Português

Falo-a tambem, mas não sou falante nativo. Aprendi o português europeu por o meu trabalho como bibliotecario, havia a perto de vinte anos. Ao momento utlilizo a lingua cada semana.