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Ooft, long time without a post here! I've been taking time of Damta for most of the year, but the grand plan still is to develop daughter languages of Early Bokisig; I have sketched out three, but not got much further in the development. Even grander plan: I'm planning to, at some point, write a sho...

Reginald Masters: The Old Ruritanian Verb System. Published in: Ruritanistic Review. University of Edinburgh, 1866 The Old Ruritanian stage is not well-known, but mostly surmised from fragmentary evidence from the past as well as meticulous study of the present language. It can be safely said that ...

I've started an althist project as home for my a priori conlang Ruritanian , placed at the border of the Balkans region. While I originally wanted to start the althist in the 19th century only, which is then the true major deviations will happen (starting from 1849), I also feel the need to give the...

I've been working on the protolang for Ruritanian a bit for some time now, calling it Old Ruritanian. This is spoken by the Ruritanian people in the northern Balkans area around the year 1000, so roundabout the latest stage of Common Slavic, from which I've taken cues about the phonology and also so...

Welcome! I will hopefully also be more active again, not had too much time for conlanging and conworlding recently, and when I was, focussed more on another project. But the Bokisig shall rise again

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I think the /ø/ was a bit of a misstep, or rather a step out of tune. I want the language to diachronically develop rounded front vowels, and for some reason already included one of them there. The main route I wanted to go for the front rounded vowels was to have the labialised vowel round [ i] and...

I've had a think about things, and decided to try the diachronic route, starting my language around the year 1000AD with an inventory were similar to that of Late Common Slavic, from what I could glean from wiki articles. The dentals I took from Greek, which I think had them around the time. https:/...

I've tried that new phonology and orthography out on two previously posted short sentences: <Ksijmtzüu!> ksij-mt-sy-w /’k h ʃijmt h .syw/ [‘kʃi:mt h .ʃu] take-PST-2PL-FEM.DEF “You guys took her/it!” <Bimtlirnins go moṅ Mjandrasun.> bi-mt-lir-nins go moṅ Mjandraz-un /pimt h .liɻ.ninʃ ko moɲ ‘Mjɒnd.ɻ...

I have revised the whole thing somewhat and removed the retroflex nasal, stop and lateral, making those palatal, added an alveolar lateral, and moved the pharyngeal to velar. There might have been some other changes I've now forgotten about, plus some cosmetic ones. The new system looks as follows:...

Thanks for your replies Davush and Omzinesý! If you did want it to blend into the surrounding languages a bit more, my personal opinion would be to just remove the retroflex stop and nasal, the pharyngeal (or change to uvular/velar), and change the aspirated/unaspirated distinction to a voiced/voice...

I've been thinking about how to "Balkanise" this lang, and there might be a few options, but none seem ideal to me. Maybe you guys can help me decide! a) The first option would of course be to simply not do that, and claim "suspension on disbelief", based on the fact that natlang...

Thanks for your feedback! You've voice some concerns I had myself about simply planting an a-priori in a real-world area without changing the phonology too much. Main reason for that was that I just rather liked the phonology (ofc that could less charitably be called pure laziness...), and it was ha...

Verbs! Verbs are the morphologically most complex part of Ruritanian and convey not only information about the action, but also about the arguments, such as the grammatical number of arguments as well as the definiteness of the S/O argument (subject of intransitive clauses, object of transitive cla...

Hi everyone! I’ve decided to revamp my conlang sketch Mbath into a conlang called Ruritanian, and the lang is now rooted in an althist world whose major difference from “here” is the existence of the ethnic group of the Ruritanians in the Balkans. Sometime in the 18th century or so, the territories ...

My last two Lexember entries consist mainly of tables, which are a bit of a pain to render here, so I'm just linking the tweets for yesterday and today.

10 lexembre - Iluhsa zèiti [ˈzɛi̯.ti] n - olive (< *zaite ) zeitézza [zei̯ˈtezza] n/adj - olive oil (< *zaite + *-enza "product of") Ziburórmi zeitišimza ? [zibuˈrormi zei̯tiˈʃimza] zé-buróm-r zèit-i<šim>ra INT-eat.PFT-2S.NOM olive-PL.ABS<1S.GEN> Did you eat my olives? I forgot to post ye...

Lexember 11: Classical Bokisig (CBKSG) CBKSG <dosot> /’do.sot / n = tower Etymology: Early Boksig /do-sot/ (“high*” + “house”) * Actually just “extending a lot into one direction”, so can also mean “long” or “wide” Not too exciting an etymology, as no sound changes wreaked havoc on the word, but th...

I forgot to post yesterday, but here's the link to my tweet to show I actually fulfilled my obligations. Lexember 10: Classical Bokisig (CBKSG) CBKSG <lēz> /le:z / n = goat Etymology: Txabao /ɾeu̯/ (“goat”) > Early Bokisig /le.ʔu/ > Pre-Classical /le/; Due to homophony with /le/ (“top”; “mountain”) ...

Lexember 8: CBKSG <jestom> /'jes.tom/ v = to become green Etymology: The last of the verbalisers, the second dynamic verbaliser aka VBZ2! It has more passive semantics than VBZ1, <ma>; the dummy verb it derived from originally meant “to take”. With colours it usually means “to become/turn colour X”.