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I know I posted this in the discord, but in P.I.P, the word for boring and useless is *āwān₂as₂. The word comes from the Christian youth organization Awanas.

Why do, in some old documents, Russians call the Tlingits "колюжах" meaning thorns? I'm very confused.

DesEsseintes wrote: ↑05 Oct 2020 15:20 Next:

téne, pl. tèno
An inanimate, countable noun.m

Stick

Next, please:

Clārum
A verb of perception

Take your time, we'll be happy to see what's in store .

I’ve been wanting to do a restrictive phonology for a while, and I recently came up with one. It’s inspired by the Lakes-Plain languages of Papua New Guinea. /t tː k kː/ [t d tː k kː ʔ] <d d t g k g> /m n/ [m n ŋ] <m n n> [ɾ] <d> [ʃ h] <d~t g~k> /i iː u uː/ [ɪ i ʊ u] <i ee u oo> /e eː/ [ɛ e] <e ei> ...

This is a thread for birthdays! If you are going to celebrate, are celebrating, or have already celebrated your birthday, post it here!
I just turned 15 yesterday. It feels mostly the same, I’m a little disappointed.

Catralian takes its aesthetics from Latin, but its grammar is something I came up with myself. The influences on grammar from real-world languages are too many to count.
Kumarian is inspired by Tamil, Sinhala, and Japanese in particular.

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑05 Sep 2020 14:43 Your writing system isn’t Tamil; what is it?

It's the Sinhala writing system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_script.

Birdlang wrote: ↑16 Jul 2020 12:07 former student (graduated vocational and high school this year).

Congratulations on graduating high school! Let's hope I can do the same .

PHONOLOGY It should be noted that all Kumarian samples are in Germā's idiolect, and so may not be representative of the rest of the language. Consonant Inventory IPA | Romanization | Sinhala Script /p b t d ʈ ɖ t͡ʃ d͡ʒ k g q~qʰ/ <p b t d ṭ ḍ c j k g q> <ප බ ත ද ට ඩ ච ජ ක ග ඛ> /m n ɳ ŋ/ <m n ṇ ng> <...

Though I am determined to keep the project a-priori, I have thought of an interesting direction I could take this language. I could make it either a descendant of Tamil, or a divergent Dravidian language. The people of Kumari Nadu were supposedly Tamil.

I kind of botched the last attempt at this language, so I'm overhauling it and starting a new thread. It's still the same backstory, but the language is going to be changed to better suit my goals. My goals for Kumarian are: - Look and sound like languages of India (Tamil, Sinhala, Hindi, etc). - In...

This is a very interesting concept, and I'm excited to see more! Where did you find resources for Proto-Iroquoian?

Thank you for your input! I was already working on the South American scenario, trying to reproduce a Proto-Chon language to work from. I'm thinking now because of your last suggestion, however. What if there was an earlier, smaller people in Tierra del Fuego, who were pushed out of South America by...

Wow, I feel like I was pretty rude in these posts. I've dropped the project for now, but I might pick it back up someday. I thank everyone who contributed to this thread.

Indeed $10. He makes $10 a month as his allowance.

I have recently been "hired" by a friend to construct a very small language (~200 words, basic grammar) for his comic. I have been paid ¥1,000 for my future services. I am currently working on the phonology and orthographies.

I’m not doing it again so soon, so Opipik can have a go.

Is it Sangtam?

I’ve recently started a couple of mini-langs for the heck of it. First, a tonal, vowel-heavy, and consonant-light language Óyok (alternatively O₃yok, pronounced [o˦jok̚]). Secondly, a descendant of Middle~Old English spoken in northern France. The second is unnamed and currently in the conceptualiza...