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lurker wrote: ↑17 Apr 2024 13:42 Did I mention that these space doggos build things out of bones?

This is still my favorite of the stories that you have posted about the yinrih.

sangi39, that sounds like a very ambitious and impressive project! I wish you the best of luck with it!

My parents’ house is in the zone of totality, so my wife and I drove up to spend a few days with them, and several other friends and relatives gathered there as well. We had a excellent view of the eclipse from their front yard, and it was extremely impressive.

This has nothing to do with your survey, I’m afraid, but I wanted to say that I was at Kuban State University (Кубанский государственный университет) in Krasnodar in the fall of 1991, as part of a program through the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) and the Great Lakes College Association (G...

I have read Mattissen's article before; thank you for giving me the opportunity to read it again! I have a few scattered notes for a polysynthetic conlang that I first started years ago after learning about polysynthetic languages on the ZBB, with the placeholder name of "Northlander." (Th...

lesia<re>n celco novi man<OBL> dog hear The man hears the dog. Thus celco novi -> the dog is being heard, celcore novi -> the dog hears (something). Your case system is certainly intriguing; the OBL NOM construction makes me think of a NOM-ACC alignment with a marked nominative and an unmarked accu...

For now, the genus is Vulpithecus. The yinrih are V. fidelis and the tree dwellers are V. ferox . Another possible species name that comes to mind for the yinrih is V. scriptor , referring to their writing claw. Thank you for sharing the information about the childermoot and primitive society. You ...

I found a note today that I made at the end of last year, about making the interrogative particle má in Chusole, which was originally conceived as sentence-final only, a mobile one, so I came up with a set of examples: [Kele] Tioluni bigyke má? kele Tiolu-ni bi-gy-ke má 2S.FRML Toilu-ALL go-PST-2S.F...

It's carried out in many different ways, as you probably expect. This book talks about a lot of things: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Language-Revitalization/Hinton-Huss-Roche/p/book/9781032401973 Thank you for the resource! It’s a bit pricey for me to purchase a copy at the m...

I really like your number system - both the way the base-20 and subbase-5 systems fit together, and the alternate forms for 2 and 5. I am tempted to steal lovingly borrow the basic structure for a project of my own, if it ever gets off the ground.

Here is an attempt for Chusole: a á ai ái b bi c ch d di dz e é ei éi g gi h hi i í j k ki l li m mi n ni o ó oi ói p pi r ri s sh t ti ts u ú y ý A combination of consonant + <i> indicates palatization; vowel + <i> indicates a falling diphthong and/or palatalization of the following consonant; an a...

I had a reply to this thread composed earlier, including my own largely scanty and/or anecdotal impressions on the topic, but the informative responses by Trailsend and Salmoneus have rendered it largely irrelevant (which I don't mind at all). Trailsend: Your work in language revitalization sounds f...

My primary conlang, Chusole, and its relatives are intended to have a base-12 number system, although I have not worked out all the details. I have vague notes on another three conlangs; of these, one definitely uses base-10, while for the others, I had flirted with using non-decimal systems, either...

Responding to this thread a little late… Chusole does not have either indefinite or definite articles; however, there are optional means of indicating (in)definiteness. A noun can be marked as indefinite by putting the word “one” or “some” in front of it, and definiteness can be confirmed by the use...

And often (I don't have any figures but I feel it's true) what's treated as "/u/" tends not to be properly back and might be [u̟] or [ʉ] most of the time. I think that this is true; in my own idiolect of (GenAm) English, I feel that my /u/ may be closer to [ʉ]; at least, it's definitely f...

Ahh, well, people do different things there. What I do is: [b] <TEXT IN CONLANG> [size=85] <TEXT IN CONLANG DIVIDED INTO MORPHEMES> [/b] <MORPHEME-BY-MORPHEME GLOSS> [/size] [i] <ENGLISH TEXT> [/i] Well, that's what I did above, and it seemed to work out, so I guess I'll stick with that. [:)]

(I don’t know how to properly format glosses on the board, so I hope that the above is OK.) https://cbbforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=77973#p77973 Thank you! I have a general knowledge of the Leipzig Glossing Rules, but it's good to have them all in one place. I was actually speaking less of the substan...

(As noted in this post, the stressed vs. unstressed distinction may be more of an indicator of high vs. low pitch.) :con: Chusole: Napalosho, inglyshynu solekiónei. Chusolenu soleke má? ['na.pa.lo.ʃo 'iŋ.lɨ.ʃɨ.nu so.le.'k xj o.nej 'ʧu.so.le.nu 'so.le.k h e 'ma] na=palo-sho inglyshy-nu sole-kio-nei c...

(Note: My lexicon is nearly nonexistent, and some of the word and/or forms below may be provisional. In addition, what I represent as a stress accent may be more of a pitch accent, i.e., indicating high pitch vs. low pitch.) :con: Chusole: Moinsolka lidzuna laga lidzigy. ['mojn j .sol.k h a 'li.ʣu.n...

More interesting material as usual, especially the images!

lurker wrote:the local overseer (a clerical office roughly equivalent to a bishop)

Is this choice of words deliberate, given that the word “bishop” comes from the Koine Greek ἐπίσκοπος epískopos, which can be literally translated as “overseer”?