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Czech maso "flesh, meat" v.s. English muscle

the words sound kinda similar(and l > o/u can happen diachronically) and the semantics are also related, but they are not cognates.

English Norse "the collective Scandinavian people" v.s. Swedish nors "smelt(fish)"

Probably a greater tendency to use native words, and a tendency to calque words from German. Grammatically I personally don't think it would be much different, maybe some native derivational affixes(not inflections) would be more productive as they look similar to the cognates in German(i.e. the be-...

I have written that Kompalia is a pioneer in contacting non-human extraterrestrial civilizations, but I am not sure if this is ok for you all. Also I want to keep the mechanism of FTL drives unexplained as of now, is it ok for you all? Those are both fine by me! Do we have an idea of which country ...

I wonder if I should also create a megathread for my conworlds' things

I have written that Kompalia is a pioneer in contacting non-human extraterrestrial civilizations, but I am not sure if this is ok for you all. Also I want to keep the mechanism of FTL drives unexplained as of now, is it ok for you all? Those are both fine by me! Do we have an idea of which country ...

sure that can do, anytime is ok.

and thanks for sharing the timeline.

Also I think the current technological level of Damta is about 500 years ahead that of our world, does this still hold?

k1234567890y wrote: ↑29 Oct 2020 11:38 Also

I am having an idea of sharing the Querlongs, a group of non-human aliens from my conworld(s) with Damta.

also Querlongs should be Quers, the word Querlong is the name for their language.

I've done a bit more conworlding - written some more about the Second Confederation, and started an article about religion/philosophy in the Bokisig culture. I've also measured some distances, and though I've only occupied a small part of the map so far, some of the distances were huge. I'd like to...

brblues wrote: ↑29 Oct 2020 19:00 just like to keep non-human aliens to very late in the timeline, i.e. a fair bit after the beginning of the space age.

This is fine by me, I have no problem with this.

Also

I am having an idea of sharing the Querlongs, a group of non-human aliens from my conworld(s) with Damta.

English gas v.s. Finnish kaasu

they sound really similar lol but the English word is from Dutch gas, which in turn is possibly from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “chasm, void, empty space”); while the Finnish word is from a Sami language, ultimately from Proto-Uralic *käsä (“dew”)

Just updated something for Likepeg people, sorry for the hiatus

Japanese Totoro (name of a fictional animal) and Old High German totoro "egg yolk"

Nachtuil wrote: ↑15 Oct 2020 04:10 I'm sorry to hear that and I hope everything comes out okay. I obviously have not been doing much either but it has never left my heart haha. I still fully plan to get back to it.

I have not done much on Damta either

English bite and English fibre (borrowed from Latin fibra)

both of them are from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- ("to split")

An isolating language where there are no adpositions, and there are no inflectional affixes and productive derivational affixes either, all meanings of adpositions are conveyed by the use of verbs and nouns(and the language has serial verb construction), and most conjunctions are from content words...

.... But on the other hand, nominal cases can be useful, and you can take a look at what others have said above, but in my opinion, nominal cases simply are not a necessity. To sum up. Many features that are frequently quite useful are also frequently not strictly necessary, and occasionally deuced...

according to WALS, 100 out of 261(38.3%) languages don't have noun cases, that is, nearly 2 out of every 5 languages don't have noun cases: https://wals.info/chapter/49 also 98 out of 190(51.6%) languages have a neutral alignment on nouns, that is, more than half of all languages distinguish the sub...

also I kinda wanna write novels in my conlangs xd or at least have dialogues of my conlangs involved