This is still my favorite of the stories that you have posted about the yinrih.
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- 17 Apr 2024 17:09
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
- Replies: 95
- Views: 26822
Re: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
- 17 Apr 2024 13:47
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Other Creativity
- Replies: 1367
- Views: 363477
Re: Other Creativity
sangi39, that sounds like a very ambitious and impressive project! I wish you the best of luck with it!
- 09 Apr 2024 02:41
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Total Solar Eclipse 2024/04/08
- Replies: 6
- Views: 143
Re: Total Solar Eclipse 2024/04/08
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.
- 22 Mar 2024 11:14
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Cultural differences and features of perception of slogans (All welcome)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1014
Re: Cultural differences and features of perception of slogans (All welcome)
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...
- 22 Mar 2024 11:12
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1079
Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
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...
Re: Abaniscen
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...
- 21 Mar 2024 02:44
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 33086
Re: Binomial Nomenclature
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 ...
- 21 Mar 2024 02:04
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 750
- Views: 217499
Re: What did you accomplish today?
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...
- 12 Mar 2024 00:03
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2023
Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
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...
- 09 Mar 2024 04:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Zeigouŋdeizese
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2723
Re: Zeigouŋdeizese
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.
- 09 Mar 2024 03:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 861
Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
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...
- 04 Mar 2024 12:53
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2023
Re: would rescuing an endangered language have a similar effect to israeli hebrew?
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...
- 01 Mar 2024 12:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Non-decimal number systems in conlangs
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1052
Re: Non-decimal number systems in conlangs
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...
- 18 Feb 2024 02:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1532
Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
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...
- 15 Feb 2024 12:59
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1738
- Views: 362818
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
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...
- 07 Feb 2024 03:34
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The Priest Wrote the King a Letter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12599
Re: The Priest Wrote the King a Letter
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. [:)]
- 07 Feb 2024 00:48
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The Priest Wrote the King a Letter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12599
Re: The Priest Wrote the King a Letter
(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...
- 06 Feb 2024 03:18
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Sorry, I don't speak...
- Replies: 96
- Views: 40969
Re: Sorry, I don't speak...
(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...
- 06 Feb 2024 03:14
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: The Priest Wrote the King a Letter
- Replies: 59
- Views: 12599
Re: The Priest Wrote the King a Letter
(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...
- 05 Feb 2024 03:17
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
- Replies: 270
- Views: 33086
Re: The Lonely Galaxy Megathread (comments encouraged)
More interesting material as usual, especially the images!
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”?lurker wrote:the local overseer (a clerical office roughly equivalent to a bishop)