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Khemehekis wrote:I have something called the Landau Core Vocabulary. It's what you seem to be looking for -- something that can get you all the basic words categorized and covered. If you PM me your email address, I'll email the entire list to you.

Huh, that sounds interesting. I'll send you a PM. Thanks.

Working on cleaning up the lexicon, including marking words that I need to change and combining entries (there are a few things I had as a root and as a word that were identical).

Why don't you categorise words as nouns, verbs, adjectives and such? [;)] I do of course, but that doesn't help with deriving and avoiding redundant words. If you cover one semantic domain, like family members, at once, then you have a coherent system of them, but if you add one word today and anot...

I'm working on vocabulary building. At the moment, that means categorizing words, into things like family, food, basic verbs, etc to avoid exact repeats and work on deriving. Which is where the trouble comes in. How do you define 'basic verb'? (Right now I'm doing anything that doesn't fall into ano...

I finished creating color words along with some other random stuff. Translated a sentence that one of my facebook friends had suggested last weekend.

Could you not analyse the "passive" affix as some kind of topic-marker? In both the "active" and the "passive" example aboive you have an agent in the nominative, and a patient in the accusative case, with no changes of the verb. The only chages is that in the "pa...

If I am reading this correctly, you are marking the passive on the pronoun? On the person being acted on, which in this case is a pronoun, yes. For no real reason, except I'm getting tired of the affix build-up on the verb. Well, you don't necessarily need to add more suffixes to the verb. Take a l...

Thakowsaizmu wrote:If I am reading this correctly, you are marking the passive on the pronoun?

On the person being acted on, which in this case is a pronoun, yes. For no real reason, except I'm getting tired of the affix build-up on the verb.

Came up with a bunch of derivation affixes. Now I just need to make examples for all of them. Filled in two letters worth of words to my lexicon from the spreadsheet (about 40 words).

Made $8 vectorizing a graphic for a coworker.

I'm trying to introduce passive voice, but I think I'm screwing up cases, maybe. Active: chun-jy ku-cha-ha-of wyan cat-NOM PST-bite-3rd.SBJ-3rd.D.OBJ he-ACC 'The cat bit him' Passive: wyan-noit chun-jy ku-cha-ha-of he-ACC-PASS cat-NOM PST-bite-3rd.SBJ-3rd.D.OBJ 'He was bit by the cat' (I'm simplifyi...

Hi. I'm Silvercat. I tend to conlang in spurts, so I'll come and go.

Oh, that'll be handy. Some answers. The rest I'll have to think about. (a) How many spouses may a man or woman have? One, but having someone on the side isn't uncommon. Sleeping around before marriage isn't uncommon either, but the woman gets pregnant, it's expected they'll get married. (b) Who deci...

(I think I've lurked long enough not to make a complete fool of myself, but we'll see...) I've decided it's time to start fleshing out the culture for the conlang I'm working on. The problem is that I've got in mind the future cultures, where it's split in two (with the implication of minor tribes a...