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Thank you for the summary.

It is certainly buried somewhere within this gargantuan thread and I don't feel like digging through it, so I ask: What types are the various planets again? I guess that Hearthside is Venus-like, and Sweetwater, Yih (of course) and Newhome Earth-like and habitable. Are Welkinstead and Moonlitter gas...

This reminds me of Tolkien's Shire calendar. Is is inspired by that?

What this entire thread shows is that natlangs are often messy in ways we conlangers would consider bad design

Sorry.

Arayaz wrote: ↑13 Mar 2025 15:46 Is this an insinuation that the project will be a kitchen sink, or a reference to the "kitchen sink" spambots?

The former. This is clearly a kitchen sink phonology.

Well, at least not liberal parlamentary democracy in the way it is practiced. In theory, sowjet communism was based on a council system (similar to the way I pictured it), recall voting, and the absence of any division of power or checks and balances. Of course, in practice it was very different. W...

I wonder whether magic wouldn't interfere with scientific development. Unless there's a reliable way of either blocking out magic or measuring its influence, people might have difficulty getting an understanding of natural laws, especially conservation of mass and energy. This depends on the partic...

I see no problems with that. In fact, I never understood why in a fantasy world with magic, technology should be limited to a medieval level. I once drafted a fantasy world with modern technology. In that world, magic did not prevent the development of technology and was eventually outstripped by it...

Creyeditor wrote: ↑08 Mar 2025 16:44 I just thought of the term Feudalkommunismus (feudal communism) and that it would be a nice idea for conworlding. How could such a system look like?

Perhaps like this (which I decided to adopt, perhaps with some modification, for my Elves)?

I feel as if African tone systems and East Asian tone systems are as different from each other as either are from European accent systems, but I may be misguided here as I don't know either very well.

Wow, that script ROCKS! I like that very much.

All I have so far in terms of tone so far is a rather simple pitch accent system in Old Albic, contrasting a "thrusting tone" and a "dragging tone" on accented long vowels (these terms are attempts at translating the German terms Stoßton and Schleifton used to describe similar to...

sangi39 wrote: ↑22 Feb 2025 19:34 I believe they still post on the ZBB as "xxx", so they're still around within the wider Conlang/Conworld community, just not the CBB

Yes. The person in question is also active on the CONLANG mailing list under the name Seth Kazan.

Naturalism is beautiful to me. A conlang that resembles a natlang appeals to me more than one that immediately gives away its artificiality. One of the reasons why I am currently redoing Old Albic is that it did not look naturalistic enough to me. (Another reason is that my ideas about its relations...

Hilarious.

Rock'n'roll! A very beautiful, realistic-looking logography. I love it!

Perhaps there was no /g/ at the time that /k/ & /ŋ/ underwent palatalization, but then later on, something like /ʁ/ > /ɣ/ > /g/ or /w/ > /ɣʷ/ > /gʷ/ > /g/ took place? That could help explain why /g/ doesn't pattern with the other velars. This idea makes a lot of sense. Among stops, /g/ is a rel...

How naturalistic is a scenario where a language would only palatalize a subset of consonants at a specific POA? For example, in a language I’m working on evolving diachronically, I want to only palatalize /ŋ k/ but not /g/. Not very naturalistic, I think. If /ŋ/ and /k/ behave in some way, one woul...