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Similarly, that other natlang that I speak and my conlang never count affixations as separate entries in the dictionary, eventhough they are natlangly listed within the same word entry. In the context of conlangs, however, I think the most important thing isn't to distinguish what's a word vs what ...

:eng: English Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal. Tadivam calat sahe padui, hillat...

But what's wrong with those? Words formed by regular derivational morphology are usually separate entries in a dictionary. Derivational morphology certainly helped my Kankonian grow to 80,000 words. For instance, I include both almonas (smart, intelligent) and almonasos (intelligence). I include bo...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑13 Aug 2022 00:53 Hurray for retroflex consonants! The Ritoniqa Dzhapa'u language of the planet Zidrova uses them! https://khemehekis.angelfire.com/zidrova.htm

Whoa, that's a complicated language! I really like how the meaning is encoded directly into the word!

Like Sanskrit and Dravidian and most dialects/languages of India, Humrayan has retroflexive consonants. https://www.linkpicture.com/q/2dt.png https://www.linkpicture.com/q/2ll.png https://www.linkpicture.com/q/2sh.png It took me a while to learn to pronounce those retroflex consonants. I had to watc...

Amazingly I had a word for Chimpanzee already. I eliminated the word "Orca" from the list because I was going to append a suffix meaning "Big" to the new word "Dolphin" to mean an Orca, and so I left that word out to reduce unneeded redundancy. Redundancy was also why I...

Kuhlakaruugma Kuhphikan is my newest word in Humraya.

Kuhlaka = spot
Ruugma = disease
Kuhphika = monkey [+N suffix makes it an adjective]

Kuhlakaruugma Kuhphikan means "Monkeypox."

Yeah there aren't many ways to name animals. You either use a single label/title/word/name for an animal like: Dog, Cat, Mouse; or you use descriptors: Jellyfish, Starfish, Earthworm; or you use analogies: Sea cucumber [which is not actually a cucumber], Flying Fox [not actually a fox], Sand Lion [n...

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/4500-humrayan.png I'm back... with 4,500 new words added to Humrayan! Basha Humrayan now has 21,100 words! I was given the complete (or nearly complete) Landau List which had around 11,000 entries in it, separated into categories. What I first did was go through the La...

Attention MissTerry! Today I added 218 new entries to the LCV! I added in the eleven next most populous U.S. states (I already had the four most populous: California, Texas, Florida, New York), so now I have the big fifteen. I also added some country names that appear frequently but that I don't al...

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/green_June_beetle_fig.jpeg The newest word in Basha Humrayan is " Hebragnayaca " (he-brag-NAY-ah-cha) which means "June Bug." Hebragnayaca is made of two main partsː Hebra + Agnayaca. Hebra comes from the Ancient Egyptian word "hprr/hprj" ...

Wow, Arpien looks extremely sophisticated and complex!

Here's the Kankonian alphabet: https://khemehekis.angelfire.com/kankalph.htm Some of the letters and punctuation marks change direction depending on whether Kankonian is being written vertically (as it traditionally was) or horizontally (as a modern innovation to match most of the other big Leholan...

Is that why N, L, and R are all tied together? To reflect the dialectal differences in North Korean vs. Soith Korean? You should make a font for your alphabet! I'd like to make a font for Kankonian first, since that's the only Lehola script I know by heart. I wasn't aware that there was a differenc...

Thanks to Eldin, Humrayan has a new word: "Sarpanagha," which is the Humrayan word for a plant disease called "Witch's Broom": https://www.linkpicture.com/q/WitchsBroomYamaska20200207_1.jpg Sarpanagha has two parts to it: "Sarpa" comes from the Sanskrit word "Sarpa...

The newest word in Humrayan is "Khiospa," which is the name for Cytisus Scoparius, commonly called "Broom." Broom grows everywhere around the areas where I live; I needed a name for it in my conlang. They have bunches of pretty yellow flowers: https://www.linkpicture.com/q/cytisu...

Here's Tsendyasek, the alphabet for the Vlchichi language: https://imgur.com/gallery/3kV5B1C Each of the three columns shows 11-12 of the 35 letters. For each letter are listed the letter, its transliteration, and its name (like "alpha" or "gimel"). That's a cool alphabet! I lik...

What's a LitRPG? Is that an RPG told through writing and literature, instead of by several people sitting around a tabletop? That's exactly what it is! It's like a cross between writing short stories merged with Role Playing Game, played by one person :) The stories about your conworld and conpeopl...

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/first-city.png Today I went to a website called profantasy.com and I bought a map making program called "Campaign Cartographer 3 +" to start making maps of my conworld! I bought a majority of the products ProFantasy offered. I got CC3+, City Designer 3, Cosmo...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑25 May 2022 10:24 I now have fewer than 400 words to go before I reach 80,000.

Damn! 80,000! That's a huge conlang :)