The CBB

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

looks nice (:

also the name looks kinda Polynesian, which makes me wonder if you are planning on a polynesian-sounding IE language, but judging from the samples you have made, it seems to not be Polynesian-inspired.

English fire v.s. Thai ไฟ /fāj/ "fire"

There is no clear theory of mixed languages. Traditional Stambaum models pose they shouldn't exist. But it is empirically evident languages can grow together. It seems that they have the vocabulary of the prestige language and grammar of the non-prestige language. So they are an extreme case of (2)...

I already have ideas: for one of my conworlds, I gotta write about people a country fighting against invaders...pretty old school settings lol. The protagonist is going to be all-female though. for another, I gotta write a girl who is ageless that witnesses the developments of new civilizations and ...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑02 Sep 2020 21:33 Just wanted to mention AfBon in this context, the database on affix borrowing. Here is a link.

thanks for sharing!

So, annoyingly, I accidentally hit refresh on this page while writing my response, so I only have time to throw together a quick response, buuuut: 1) Typically, what tends to get borrowed is vocabulary, rather than morphology or phonology (these are borrowed, just to a lesser extent, and, I think, ...

Egerius v.s. Hungarian egér "mouse"

and Egerius seems to like rodents a lot.

I have to love some of the Bokisig sentences: dɛx saɣop saxɛmma-ʔo sixmɛ katma-mɛ-bolu 2sg king insult-CVB.SS soon die-PFV-FUT “As you have insulted the king, you will soon die.” ʔiʔaguhiz sɛ nuɣehe-mɛʔu saɣop xiʔo nuɣehɛ plant NEG red-CVB.DS king REFL annoy “Because the plant isn’t red, the king i...

not bad

and it seems to have a Tolkien vibe. You are a fan of Tolkien?

Kompalia on the other hand is IIRC mostly located on B2 and C2 as well as possibly some D3? That might be too far away geographically, but its not impossible that some interaction might take place if they go further east and find a way across the mountains once the Bokisig confederation has settled...

have not done Damta things recently, maybe I should do Damta things more?

I was just thinking of customs the desert tribes may have. What if there was a tradition of "sky burial" or "silent towers" where basically you put a dead body up high in a specially made tower or on a rock specifically for scavenging birds to consume? The idea being that the body should not be bur...

jimydog000 wrote: ↑23 Mar 2020 06:35 How big is this world?

guess it is as big as our world aka this is an alternative Earth.

do you want to join? (:

Before too much time passes, do you think there should be any more major rivers or is this pretty good to your eyes? I feel as though I should add some more in the north actually. Even though it is arctic or tundra I notice rivers still exist in such regions. sure we should give some major rivers a...

lol Sitr people did not invent the script ex nihilo, they created it from inspirations of another script, uncertain the source of inspiration though Oh, OK. Just so you know what I'm talking about, here's the Kankonian alphabet . ok (: not bad, and I guess Kankonian alphabet evolved from a logograp...

Sitr script: https://i.imgur.com/8kT7hzl.jpg https://i.imgur.com/lBCcOtH.jpg I like it! The G in the inscription script looks like the letter hu (Kankonian's H), turned around a little. lol Sitr people did not invent the script ex nihilo, they created it from inspirations of another script, uncerta...

Sitr script:

https://i.imgur.com/8kT7hzl.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lBCcOtH.jpg

Articles can arise from demonstratives. i.e. English “the” is from “that”. Indefinite Pronouns can be from nouns or interrogative pronouns i.e. “someone”, “anyone/anybody”, “everyone/everybody”, “nobody” can arise from compounds involving the word for “person”, “body”, “one” or “who”; “something”, “...

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