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by Imralu
28 Mar 2024 07:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Replies: 13
Views: 592

Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?

Túwemeŋúmwehhómavváŋeším ŋážā. t<úw>ém -e- ŋúm -wē- hóm -ā- váŋ -e- ším | ŋáž -ā get.eaten<CAUS>-LK2-be.cattle-ATTR-be.tasty-SBJ.R2-hunt-LK2-be.fish | be.tall-SBJ.R2 The fisherman tasty-beef-eats | he is tall "The tall fisherman eats tasty beef." In this case, for the time being, the info...
by Imralu
24 Mar 2024 17:10
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?
Replies: 13
Views: 592

Re: Field/Lexical Affixes in Your Polysynthetic Conlangs?

Thank you for the link to that article. It was an interesting read. I'm currently working on a polysynthetic language which is tentatively called Miwosh or ( Míwoš ). It's a revamp of another language of mine, Balog, and the main idea is that I wanted to spoonerise almost all of the particles with t...
by Imralu
09 Mar 2024 11:01
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?
Replies: 21
Views: 645

Re: What CBB Language Am I Looking At?

Hibuese:

a b bw by d dw dy dz dzw e g gw gy h hw hy i l lw ly m mb mbw mby mw my n nd ndw ndy ndz ndzw ng ngg nggw nggy ngw ngy nw ny r u v vw vy w y z zw zy zyw

In loanwords: f fy fw k kw ky p pw py q s sw sy t tw ty
by Imralu
24 Feb 2024 10:55
Forum: Translations
Topic: The food that we were going to sell
Replies: 36
Views: 10364

Re: The food that we were going to sell

:con: Hibuese Assuming 1st person exclusive. Zyamo u nanai zi ga nongge zyii ze mwe ne nongge u zyei yu zye zyamo u nganai ngwe. zyamo u nana=i zi ga nongge zyi=i ze mwe ne nongge u zye=i yu zye zyamo u nganai ngwe food SIT 1P=COP PST FUT sell GEN.DEF=COP NEG able PASS sell SIT cause=COP SR cause fo...
by Imralu
18 Feb 2024 10:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?
Replies: 28
Views: 1177

Re: How do your languages treat (in)definiteness?

In Hibuese, definiteness is indicated quite optionally using the singular 3rd person pronoun de or its plural form dwe . Subject: It tends not to be used in the subject because subjects tend to be assumed definite. The predicate is generally assumed indefinite, and this results in a cleft-like struc...
by Imralu
18 Feb 2024 09:27
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347437

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Could an argument be made for including /t/ as a possible coda but not any other stops by saying that the language has a preference for coronal consonants in general? It's for a non-human language but they are fairly humanoid, so I'd like to keep details and reasoning for why things are how they ar...
by Imralu
28 Jan 2024 15:29
Forum: Translations
Topic: Ablative Absolute
Replies: 34
Views: 9792

Re: Ablative Absolute

:con: Hibuese: U bumbai dzo dyomi do, dumwai bye. u bumba=i dzo dyomi do | dumwa=i bye SIT city=COP ANT.PASS capture A thus | soldier=COP depart A (With) the city being captured, the soldiers left. The do is only there because the situational clause has been fronted. It could also be expressed as: D...
by Imralu
22 Jan 2024 19:33
Forum: Translations
Topic: Go and find him!
Replies: 35
Views: 9173

Re: Go and find him!

There are two different ways in Wena/Hibuese/Ngeho/Zyange Ho/whatever name I call it, because "look for" is a compound of either "hunt-hold" or "hunt-see", depending on what the purpose of looking for the object is. (1) He zolo nguvwe zyi. he zo-lo ngu- vwe zyi JUSS loc...
by Imralu
17 Jan 2024 13:20
Forum: Translations
Topic: You helped me
Replies: 35
Views: 11252

Re: You helped me

Wai zi be zyu nai zyeu mbingui zongwo.
wa=i zi be zyu na=i zye-u mbi-ngu=i zo-ngwo
2S=COP PST helpA GEN.SR 1S=COP cause-SIT animal-huntA=COP locomoteA-leg
You helped me walk the dog.
(Literally: "You helped that I make that the dog walks.")
by Imralu
07 Jan 2024 07:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce
Replies: 57
Views: 22328

Re: Commonthroat: a language that only a dog could probably pronounce

https://i.imgur.com/H8vBGZk.png Tqoqo oil Joe' 😂 It could also be translated as the sentence This galaxy is lonely . Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for semantic ambiguity. I think it's absolutely fine for a title, but I'm most interested in whether this is a universal ambiguity acro...
by Imralu
07 Jan 2024 06:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347437

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Commonthroat uses a Mandarin-style coverb to form passive phrases. I want to be lazy and use other coverbs for a reciprocal voice and a reflexive/middle voice. Does that make sense? This is all in an attempt to avoid pronouns. All looks good to me. Syntactically though, what makes them coverbs and ...
by Imralu
31 Dec 2023 17:18
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
Replies: 197
Views: 64300

Re: Conlang Conversation Thread

Yawa t'iqqaš ai hebwa na nabwa todzitlukqesaviŋ. yawa | t ii=qaš ai he-bwa na na-bwa [t+o+dz+i+tl+u+kq+e+s+a+v+i]-ŋ hey | time DEF.R5=year LK2 two-set.of.hands one one-set.of.hands [0.5x8+0.5x512+0.5x32+0.5x256+0.5x64+0.5x128+0.5x128+0.5x64+0.5x256+0.5x32+0.5x512+0.5x8]-COLL Hello from the year 202...
by Imralu
29 Dec 2023 13:29
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
Replies: 197
Views: 64300

Re: Conlang Conversation Thread

In breg serres neden igat. 1sg.1 3sg.nonhuman.4 2sg.FRM.3 cross-2 hope / I hope you're out of the woods by now. Ğa kavu t'ihhil ba xed iit nažudzaŋ is selisas . ğa kavu t ii=hi-l | ba xed ii=t | [n+a+ž+u+dz+a]-ŋ ii=selisas. AFF but time DEF.R5=CONT-day | very hot DEF.R5=time | [0.5x1+0.5x32+0.5x4+0...
by Imralu
28 Dec 2023 09:48
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
Replies: 197
Views: 64300

Re: Conlang Conversation Thread

T'iw wik e kwisimas ba ŋuŋuwe vuhaž aaz s'iddižim dža Qwiyuhog aunnuhežaŋotän. t ii=wik-e-kwisimas | ba ŋu~ŋuwe v<uh>až aa=ž | s ii=d-i-ž-im | dža Q<w><iy><uh>og auu=[n+u+h+e+ž+a]-ŋ-o-tän time DEF.R5=week-LK2-Christmas | very FREQ-again thunderstorm<EXPERIENCE> DEF.R4=1P | place DEF.R5=DEM-PROX-1S-...
by Imralu
14 Dec 2023 16:58
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347437

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

So would <lPrg> mean an act of climbing or would it make more sense for it to mean a climber? It's very typical among natlangs (on Earth anyway 😉) for the most basic nominal derivation from a verb to be either a gerund (the general name of the action) or a noun indicating an event of the action. Pe...
by Imralu
14 Dec 2023 14:53
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347437

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Minor quibbles. (To be fair I also have an extra syllable in California , but who's counting anyway?) The whole point of naming mergers is that you name two words that actually merge, if possible, like "caught/cot". Sometimes it's not, like "father/bother" (I guess "khan/co...
by Imralu
13 Dec 2023 04:43
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347437

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

VaptuantaDoi wrote: 11 Dec 2023 09:31 Even better, the Kelly four near/California merger ("Is that Kelly number three in northern Mexico? No, that's Kelly four near California.")
Nah, too many other phonemes differ too, as well as the stress pattern.
/ˌkeliˈfɔːˌnɪə/
/ˌkæləˈfɔːnjə/
by Imralu
11 Dec 2023 09:20
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Extreme Conlang Ideas
Replies: 37
Views: 2155

Re: Extreme Conlang Ideas

A video language on something like a sentient cuttlefish. Some morphemes could be iconic, looking like a visual representation of the referent, but over time, they could easily change to be less and less iconic.
by Imralu
11 Dec 2023 09:14
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347437

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

FWIW I don't have the elbow/Albo merger; I think that's most characteristic of people from Malbourne. As for interjections, I've noticed that "yeah" and "nah" don't gain intrusive-ɹ consistently; I'd happily say [jeː əɾ ˈɪz] but [lʊː ən ˈʊːɾə] just sounds weird. So it's certainl...
by Imralu
11 Dec 2023 07:57
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1678
Views: 347437

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I'm trying to translate a piece of my writing into Ruykkarraber, and I'm stuck, but not because of any complicated constructions, no. I'm stuck on how to derive a word for "or." Like, where does it come from? What's a basic root that could turn into it? I feel like some of my Ruykkarraber...