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verige 'Sweden'. It should be something like Swerie. Do you have a general system for how to handle 'foreign' phonemes in Atlas? (Say, if a /ɬ/ or /ɣ/ appeared in a foreign name?) Absolutely right, for some reason I had another pronunciation in my mind. Not really, it would be impossible to have ru...

Could you use just the a-suffix to render the meaning 'person from (country)'? Like Vranse 'France' -> Vransa 'Frenchman'? It would seem like a quite straightforward way. Correct! I will talk about that in future blog updates, but it is exactly as you said. When you transcribe the names of the coun...

Here's a counterexample: Well having a very small and for most people unknown country as an example does not really invalidate the Atlas. Following your phylosophy you could have added Australia as well for instance, or New Zealand... But still. I fly every day. I am uncapable of saying where every...

How does Atlas move the ball forward? I accept your apologies and happy to answer your "healthy" questions [;)] It is hard to say whether Atlas is easier than others. It is for me, it is for others. What's new is that Atlas only uses 525 roots, and combines them in order to get all other ...

Plenty of languages has an inflectional (or in some other way grammaticalised) distinction between past and non-past. Some grammaticalised distinction between perfective and imperfective aspects are also rather common, as is having some form of perfect construction. If you look at the definition of...

We are talking about aspect here. Many other non-European languages have aspect... including Chinese, Arabic or Indonesian: There are two aspect markers that are especially commonly used with past events: the perfective 了 le and the experiential 过 [過] guo. (Some authors, however, do not regard guo, ...

In each of the above expressions, a modifier noun (to the right) modifies a head noun (to the left), but the ways in which the modifier nouns modifies the head nouns are very different. Atlas accepts any genitive construction (subject, object, causal...). Being an auxlang, I do not think there is a...

they ways in which the one word is modified by the other may be very different You are right. The noun to the left is the modified noun, and to the right the modifier noun. You will agree with me that "mathematical teacher" is not the same as "teacher of mathematics". In the fir...

That is an interesting question Xing. - a noun modifies another noun using "de" when they both keep their full meaning. al-xise de al-dine - the beginning of the day. - an adjective is added to a noun when it is describing it: al-xise bani - the good beginning - two roots are added in orde...

New tool for Atlas! A colleague from another forum has made this incredible tool in order to learn Atlas words, with sounds/pronunciation included! https://www.memrise.com/course/1625505/524-atlas-roots/ Words are separated by language of origin, which is great too. I hope you enjoy! For more inform...

Yes! I'm interested. I'm considering writing the line about it as:

about 12,000 Rodinian - Rodiniye; worldlang repurposed as an artlang

Does this sound good to you?

Why not!

wien /wɪen/ is also unpronounceable. When /ɪe/ becomes a diphthong, it is almost the same as /je/. People would pronounce /wɪen/ as /u'jen/ or /wi'en/ Rodiniye: Where'd you get the idea for 'people' to be wien ? A natlang in particular? :wat: You might think otherwise :roll: but I do take into acco...

Yes it is was I was trying to say. The "only" case I can see where some confussion might arise is with participles. Atlas has only one adjective, so confussion might arise in this case: al-itsa mori - the (dead/dying) person? But as I said, in this case "cal" (process) or "r...

Rodiniye, you still haven't checked your PM box yet! Sorry! you were referring to Rodinian... Yes it had around 12.000 words in the vocabulary, but to be honest I have left Rodinian a bit aside in order to concentrate on Atlas. Are you interested? I could share something with you if you are. Regard...

I'd like to see more detailed descriptions of which derivational processes there are in the language. How do you: -Form nouns out of verbs? -Form noun out of adjectives? -Form adjectives out of nouns? -Form adjectives out of verbs? -Form verbs out of nouns? -Form verbs out of adjectives? The crucia...

but then what Atlas(ian) word has the meaning we Anglophones use for English "sop" ? Sop isn't exactly a common word. I was gonna say I have been speaking English for years and lived in England for 5 years never heard of "sop"! [:D] I do not know exactly the meaning of "sop...

- no dual number any longer. What made you change your mind on having this as optional and instead just getting rid of the dual? - no verb prefixes any longer. And all roots now are 3 letters long. I think it has taken Atlas to where it should be, now it is even easier and more logical. if "st...

Atlas growing strong and many people helping, so I am extremely grateful. Latest and last upgrade has been a recent grammar upgrade which made the language easier: - given structures now to help recognize words and part of speech. - simplified verbs. - no dual number any longer. - no verb prefixes a...

Nachtuil wrote:

Rodiniye wrote:

There's numbers between 1 and 2, you know--I assume Xing is asking if something like "1.5" takes the singular or plural.

I would say plural, because it is more than 1.

So 1.5 is marked the same way 3 is and not 2?

Dual is optional, so my view is 1.5 could be dual or plural.

How would "He saw that she was killing the cat." be translated, then? The same way, given that it's still in the past relative to the frame of reference of the speaker? Ze viset, ze wazat al-nekoa - so yes, the same way. Another question would be how to handle the pluperfect. (He saw that...