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I mean, I can kind of see it. The collapse of polysyllabic into monosyllabic words typical of the development of an analytic language is also a common source of tonogenesis.

A name:

sųmr siwani
/s-mʔk s-jwʕ-nj/
3SG-method 3SG-speak.to-person

Very fun phonology [:D] I'm excited to see what you do with it! Thank you! I hope I can satisfy your expectations [:)] I love this idea! However, a form such as */ʕjʔn/ is impossible; /ʔ/ only appears word-initially. What if instead it manifests as vowel length (or gemination)? Would you mind if I ...

[O.O] The wonders of allophony! Indeed! [:D] I just love allophony. Its pervasiveness in Xúuuatxia was one of my favorite aspects of it, along with its overall aesthetic. I feel the charm of the original Xúuuatxia has kind of been lost in my revival attempt. A bit of grammar I don't want to make an...

Something I've been toying with that doesn't make a phonemic distinction between consonants and vowels. /m n s k ʕ j w/ These have allophonic ranges as follows: /m/: [m b ũ] m b ų /n/: [n d ə̃] n d ę /s/: [s s̩] s s /k/: [k ʀ̥] k r /ʕ/: [ɡ~ɣ~ʁ ɑ] g a /j/: [j i] y i /w/: [w u] w u There's kind of als...

How did the English pattern of "xxx yyy" being a noun and "xxxyyy" being an adjective come about? (like "main line" vs. "mainline") I’d say what you’re seeing is a more general distinction between a basic phrase in situ and a unit formed out of that phrase. A...

How did the English pattern of "xxx yyy" being a noun and "xxxyyy" being an adjective come about? (like "main line" vs. "mainline")

TBPO wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025 21:28 Can you elaborate about the confusing medial?

I think it was a joke? At least that's what I got from the wording.

TBPO wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025 20:42 If both negative and reflective are moods (along with imperative), then how to say "don't kill yourself"?

presumably, it would have the negative, reflexive, and imperative marked on it

I like to say "do you actually want to know" or "do you want the short or long answer."

Xúuuatxia 2.0 Parts of Speech NOUNS May take pluralization and articles. Belong to a noun class (motile or sessile) and often may be used with the other, depending on semantics. May be modified by relative clauses. May be replaced by pronouns. VERBS May take the inverse suffix. May be modified by a...

Xúuuatxia 2.0: Syntax Word order is verb-initial; the language is strongly head-initial in general. Ordering of arguments depends on focus, and is usually sorted by class: motile first, sessile second. The language is direct-inverse, so it is assumed that the motile noun is the agent. If the nouns ...

VaptuantaDoi wrote: ↑16 Mar 2025 03:21 Sorry to be obtuse but what is the point of this game?

I have also wondered. Especially as no feedback is provided.

I love this — the phonoaesthetic, the grammar, all of it. Can't wait for more.

It's also a video game — a deck-building roguelike, basically. I don't play, but I know some who do.

Balatro?

I have noticed that forum-style communities — devoted to a certain topic, with longer-form posts and little or no live chatting — are not where you go to make friends, but rather to meet people you respect from a distance. An interesting take. I was on Reddit for over 10 years (across a few account...

As someone who's been a part of a lot of internet communities, I'd say I agree with you both. I think a healthy online social ecosystem, as it were, are pretty similar to this one, maybe a little smaller but structured similarly. People can venture out to whatever degree they like, and new people wh...

[:'(] What happened? (Or are you not allowed to share that either?) I got pretty burned out and had to quit. That's happened to a good number of people; usually either someone else takes over their culture(s) and language(s) or they find an in-world reason for their disappearance. There was also so...

Xúuuatxia 2.0: Nouns Nouns are classified as either motile or sessile. Motile nouns include the typical animates (humans, animals), but also include other objects moving on their own (a rolling log, flowing water). Motile nouns receive a suffix /-a/ in the singular and /-i/ in the plural; sessile n...