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by protondonor
23 Jul 2023 22:34
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XVI (DONE!)
Replies: 137
Views: 9342

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XVI (DONE!)

I didn't realize the relay had ended already—here's my torch, so you all can see what happened in ring 1.
by protondonor
31 Mar 2023 18:30
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XVI (DONE!)
Replies: 137
Views: 9342

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XVI - late signups will be accepted

I'd like to join in, preferably avoiding Tuesdays. Not sure what I'll join with.
by protondonor
05 Jan 2022 20:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Replies: 187
Views: 31918

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)

This jetty was a place of death, a corpse's pyre.
by protondonor
12 Sep 2021 08:08
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Replies: 187
Views: 31918

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - SIGNUPS OPEN UNTIL MON 13th SEP

Torch received!....... not that I'm going to do anything with it tonight.
by protondonor
01 Sep 2021 23:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Replies: 187
Views: 31918

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - SIGNUPS OPEN UNTIL MON 13th SEP

I'll do it with Waľavaľwa! (Thus forcing me to speed up the glacial process of semshifting.)
by protondonor
23 Jun 2021 22:13
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIII
Replies: 119
Views: 35082

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIII

Creyeditor wrote: 22 Jun 2021 19:56 Also, I find the Awatese and Ndxiixun texts most aestatically pleasing.
Thank you! [<3]
by protondonor
10 Mar 2021 08:02
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIII
Replies: 119
Views: 35082

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIII [starting Mar 5; sign-ups open]

Torch passed! And I have now typed enough <¹>s and <³>s and <ą>s for the whole year, I hope.
by protondonor
06 Mar 2021 18:26
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIII
Replies: 119
Views: 35082

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIII [starting Mar 5; sign-ups open]

Click wrote: 06 Mar 2021 18:24 Torch passed to Jackk and protondonor.
And received!
by protondonor
16 Feb 2021 22:54
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIII
Replies: 119
Views: 35082

Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIII

I'll join with Ndxiixun.
by protondonor
04 Nov 2018 05:24
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Iramite of the Pillars - Progeny of a Lost Semitic
Replies: 26
Views: 14025

Re: Iramite of the Pillars - Progeny of a Lost Semitic

If this was even half as confusing for you all to read as it was for me to write I apologize and implore that you ask questions and point out better ways to organize things. I like what you're doing but, yes, that was kind of confusing. I might have: split the case irregularities and QRPS stuff int...
by protondonor
15 Oct 2018 06:47
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Iramite of the Pillars - Progeny of a Lost Semitic
Replies: 26
Views: 14025

Re: Iramite of the Pillars - Progeny of a Lost Semitic

I really like the phonation chain shift! Is that kind of change attested in any Semitic natlangs?
by protondonor
25 Apr 2017 01:28
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Speedlanging weekend V: 22th April
Replies: 20
Views: 5115

Re: Speedlanging weekend V: 22th April

Wow, I didn't see this at all and was very busy this weekend. Wish I'd thought to check here. But I might come up with something for it this week, maybe on the plane Thursday or Saturday.
by protondonor
11 Apr 2017 16:50
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building [2011–2019]
Replies: 4357
Views: 577864

Re: Reverse CBB Lexicon Building

Frislander wrote:Next: pàsku [ˈpâs̺.kʊ̯] (an item appropriate to a bronze-age agricultural people).
axle or thill

Next: lempintăp [lempintəp] (item appropriate to a semi-aquatic or amphibious species with at most bronze-age technology)
by protondonor
09 Apr 2017 22:06
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Speedlanging weekend IV: Weekend of April 8th
Replies: 49
Views: 8664

Re: Speedlanging weekend IV: Weekend of April 8th

I decided to pull out an old conworld that I haven't done anything with in 3 years and build my first conlang for it. This is Sîmăr Tedasu , a language spoken by a semi-aquatic/amphibious group of humanoids living on and around an island chain in a brackish subtropical inland sea. Phoneme inventory ...
by protondonor
30 Mar 2017 16:37
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 325153

Re: False cognates

And all this time I thought it was from a Yiddish cognate to schwach!
by protondonor
28 Mar 2017 00:22
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
Replies: 11605
Views: 2043743

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

I'm not an expert on direct inverse languages specifically (although someday...) but I think it would be very easy for a situation like that to develop using a word for "things" as the 3rd person plural pronoun. Your direct/inverse marking examples seem a bit quirky to me because I'm used ...
by protondonor
26 Mar 2017 17:00
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Speedlanging weekend IV: Weekend of April 8th
Replies: 49
Views: 8664

Re: Speedlanging weekend IV proposal: Weekend of April 8th

I'd love to participate. It's been a while since I've done anything like this.
by protondonor
11 Mar 2017 03:37
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: CBB Conlang Relay VIII
Replies: 114
Views: 33358

Re: CBB Conlang Relay VIII

Wow, the ideophone xizèexìzee (sound of a sword being drawn; used here to represent suddenly drawing a weapon) really went places.
by protondonor
09 Mar 2017 00:13
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: What language does Google think this obscure natlang is?
Replies: 3
Views: 2043

What language does Google think this obscure natlang is?

Inspired by this thread over on the conlangs board , I became curious how Google Translate determines what language an unknown text is, and started to put in random samples of obscure (or obscure-ish, or sometimes just misleadingly transcribed) natlangs from the Guess The Language thread into Google...