The CBB

I would like to make my first foray into althist, and I'm particularly interested in more modern times from say the 19th century onward. As my conlanging preferences, however, are very strongly towards the a priori end of the spectrum, I have been wondering how I could best throw an a priori conlang...

Mbath pronouns are fairly standard, and only the 3SG uses different forms according to grammatical gender, while the 3PL differentiates only between human and non-human. There exist a few variant forms, although none of them are too common. 1SG <nyn> /nyn/ [nyn] 2SG <suh> /suħ/ [sux] 3SG MASC <sredi...

Lovely. I like everything so far. Forgive my ignorance / take it as curiosity willingly waiting to be informed: are there natlangs with consecutive aspirated stops forming a cluster, and both retaining aspiration? How exactly is this realised for you - with an epenthetic devoiced vowel, perhaps? Th...

Definiteness marking on the verb As already mentioned above, the definiteness of the S/O argument (subject of intransitive clauses, object of transitive clauses; never the agent of a transitive clause) is marked on the verb. If a zero morpheme is used in the definiteness slot of the verb, this argu...

I've made a minor change to the synchronic sound change rules, and removed the metathesis rules that changed //t h n tn//, //p h m pm// and //k h n kn// to // n d//, // m b/ and //ᵑɡ//; I will probably keep them for a variety/dialect though. The romanisation is: /m/ <m> /n/ <n> /ɳ/ <ṇ> /p/ <b> /ph/ ...

i like it. two questions: 1) can the prenasalized stops contrast with sequences? e.g. you say /mp/ is pronounced as /mb/ but is that distinct from the single phoneme /mb/ or are they merged? 2) Did you mean to link to imgbb.com or is that some copypaste injection? Thanks, Pabappa Thank you! :) 1) I...

Verbs! Verbs are the morphologically most complex part of Mbath, and convey not only information about the action, but also about the arguments, such as the grammatical number of arguments, as well as the definiteness of the S/O argument (subject of intransitive clauses, object of transitive clause...

I've been tinkering around on a new conlang, as usual starting out with a premise - this time a phonology with underlying phonemes whose realisation makes analysis a bit of a pain - and then going down rabbit hole after rabbit hole, mostly grammatical ones, and changing everything time and again, an...

Torch has been passed on to cedh!

I will take 1-2 days longer than expected as my fridge just blew and I have to use my time I kept aside for working on the relay on organising a replacement

Received, just before bedtime! So I won't get around to taking an actual look and hopefully start before tomorrow.

Are there other languages that have two different words/lexemes for "to be" with a similar sense of soy/estar in Spanish? Or a different sense, but still two or more "to be" verbs? I know Japanese has two, with one being used for animate, and the other inanimate. Korean has 있다 (...

I've also put in a new loan: Early Bokisig /helbuhE/ covered both "to be bitter" and "to be sour", but the Classical variety wanted to be able to differentiate. So CBKSG /hel'bu:/ came to cover only "bitter", while <mekra>"acidpear" was loaned to coin the new...

I have started work on the next incarnation of Bokisig, the Classical variety (CBKSG), on the ConWorkShop , and derived a hundred words so far from my Early Bokisig words via sound changes, also involving some semantic shifts. I've also put in a new loan: Early Bokisig /helbuhE/ covered both "t...

I've further amended my history of the Bokisig Confederation , sometimes a bit drastically, and added two maps (sadly a grid line shows up quite prominently as a black bar in large zooms such as these). I also think I might push the timeline for when Early Bokisig changes into Classical back a bit. ...

I want to take part, with either Bokisig (Early or Classical, depending on how early or late it'll be my turn), or possibly Mbath, a new lang that at the moment doesn't really have that much grammar, and basically zero vocab.

Amazing, thanks!

@Khemehekis I'm currently putting some cities onto my map, and also want there to be two cities in a kingdom called Nedusu that is descended from the Txabao people coming to the area (around PS8300, the cities may have been founded later). Would you mind coming up with two good truly native Txabao n...

I've put a bit more history up on the wiki, and there are over 600 words, plus a couple of grammar articles on the CWS page for Early Bokisig.

Three weeks since the last post on here [:O] I've kept working on Early Bokisig despite not publishing anything on here or fandom-wiki; vocabulary items entered on ConWorkShop are now up to 350, and I've recorded my sound changes in the PhoMo format used on there, so that I can more easily create th...