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That's a great word. And a problem I'm often subject to. It's too bad I'm not a yinrih and can't pronounce it, heh!

lurker wrote: ↑30 May 2024 21:41

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Creyeditor wrote: ↑30 May 2024 08:46 I just came across this website and thought it could be useful for vocabulary creation: https://semdom.org/.

Thank you greatly! Looks quite interesting and useful.

lurker wrote: ↑30 May 2024 18:33 A jokelang where all the morphemes are null.

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Xúuuatxia Dialectology (for real this time guys i promise ─) CULTURAL BACKGROUND The urheimat of the Iouatxia ( íouatxia ) is a bog and wetland environment along a large river and delta. The river is called kouxìbasáah , or "slithering river." In English, I'll call it Kouxibasaah, followi...

Continuing the tale of "Arayaz did dumb things in the Xúuuatxia romanization," I'm reromanizing [ɲ] as <nj>. I don't particularly like the look, but I like <ñ> far less, and my ever-used <ň> doesn't match the aesthetic I'm going for.

"Hmmm. Well, I have a question for you," I say. "How would I say 'I am a person?'" Tryna ascertain if ù·zàa is a copula or a name-specific thing. Also: (1a) Amùàuàx zaúz. Ǐmuìlhuàh zuaz. Mumızàmaı txıúm? | "You must drink water. You must make the ocean sleep. Do you need... ...

"Suxsnọkwh hí?" I ask, just to join in and build the suspense. (And try out more of the speech modes.)

I slip out of the fold of the multiverse and act as if I've been there all along. "Eel," I say, guessing that it was a greeting due to its position in the utterance, and perhaps due to its resemblance to a greeting in another language I knew spoken in a place oddly similar to this one. Ee...

You act as though you expect us to understand what you mean by that ...

Are you, perhaps, saying that you have one conlang, which you are fluent in, and in which you write?

As much as I love putting all my stuff on here, it is a bit inconvenient for certain things, such as lexicon documentation. So I'm relocating my Xúuuatxia lexicon to this spreadsheet. I'll use this for any lexicons and suchlike, and I'll link to it in the table of contents.

Welcome to the board, guyontheinternet!

Well, you can always come up with things yourself. And what are some examples of things you're trying to evolve? I and others here could likely give you some suggestions.

And English - at least, US English - distinguishes [ɾ] and /ɹ/. The former isn't conventionally considered phonemic yet, but its a very well-established allophone. Well, in this case they're more distinct than that, since the latter is at the least retracted to /ɹ̠/, and more than often labialized ...

There seem to be about 10 to 15 odor words in languages that use them, which I find interesting as that's about how many base color terms languages have. Huhhh? Didn't Berlin and Kay find a maximum eleven basic color categories (white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, g...

Welcome to the board, Akubra! First up: Probably don't trust ChatGPT on its own, especially for less-well-known fields like linguistics. Ideally, use Google or Wikipedia (and don't trust Google's AI search overviews, either). And ideally, check the sources for it. That said, the distinction between ...

Can we get IPA, please? As it is, I don't know whether to read, say, <ee> as [eː] or [ . i], for example. I slip out of the fold of the multiverse and act as if I've been there all along. "Eel," I say, guessing that it was a greeting due to its position in the utterance, and perhaps due t...

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Thought it'd be better to have this as its own post.

LANGUAGES

• 0 · Proto-Highland-XXX
• 1000 · Proto-Highland, Proto-Xúuuatxia, Proto-XXX, Njabad

(more later)

Okay, I didn't like how Rúuuädjia and Xvótxie looked, and I wanted to do some other stuff differently too, so disregard that post. I'll have something new up today or (more likely) tomorrow.

_Just_A_Sketch wrote: ↑26 May 2024 23:54

Arayaz wrote: ↑24 May 2024 18:52 Alushi
Ibi kahi om ibi taa owam kinukyan.
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Why must you do this to us...

Because :3

_Just_A_Sketch wrote: ↑26 May 2024 23:54 Congrats on 1.6k!!

Thanks! I'm really glad to be part of the CBB, and I get a bit sentimental with the round numbers.

Flavia wrote: ↑26 May 2024 17:59

Arayaz wrote: ↑26 May 2024 17:58 I'd love to be part of this! Where in the remnants of the USA are we?

UnbiasedBrigade wrote: ↑26 May 2024 13:42 You're in a suburb in the northern part of the New Empire, near the border with Quebec and Canada.

Oh, oops. Somehow I missed that.