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(..) No grammatical feature can be described in one word, such as “instrumental”, or even a sentence. For example, reflexives. The exact usage is very language specific. For example, in Spanish, you can say stuff like “El padre se enojó” literally “the father angered himself”, but would be translat...

This post in the "Yay or Nay?" topic gave me an idea about adjectives' agreement system. If I speak like very early protolang, then the adjectives are supposed to come from verbs, and I plan on, pardon my dog Latin, "double-verb clauses" (what I really mean are contructions like...

I'm not very good at sound changes that result in a language sounding like the way I want to, so I first made Proto-Pehian's phonology, & then analyzed it & solo-brainstormed on what changes could've led to this phonology. Basically, I reconstructed PKP's phonology from Proto-Pehian. Here's ...

Another proposal: The words for “and” and “or” should default to /ma/ and /ɢa/ but should harmonize in some way with what they’re grammatically tied to and sometimes reduce to prefixes or suffixes. Maybe some related conjunctions should also work this way. Grammatical harmony? Wow let's really do t...

Right now what I really plan to make behind the "Literary Pehia" is some kind of common written language to which inter-ethnical communications naturally settled, & then standardized & perscribed. I really want it to seem like it was developed naturally, so at early stages it shoul...

/p b t d k kʷ q qʷ ʔ/ <p b t d k kv g gv q> /f θ s ʃ ɕ x h/ <f z s sh x kh hh> /t͡s t͡ʃ t͡ɕ/ <c ch j> /m n ŋ/ <m n gh> /l j w/ <l y w> /r ʀ/ <r rh> /i iː yː u/ <i ii uu u> /e eː øː o/ <e ee oo o> /æː/ <aa> /a/ <a> Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr Ss Tt Uu Vv Ww Xx Yy Zz Next : /...

That looks like an ambitious project, and makes me curious. I like big conlang families like this! Ehh, I doubt I'll even outline all the protolanguages TBH. But I still try, because honestly, I aim it to be my personal conlang (i.e. I do this just for the sake of it), who knows maybe I'll cipher s...

Alright I've left this thread stagnate for a few days, here's a dictionary of all root words , & here's the full planned family of languages (open the spoiler): Light-colored blocks represent dead languages (those that do not exist anymore) (all language names except for Pehia, Hafician & br...

/p pʰ b t tʰ d k kʰ g ʔ/ <pp p b tt t d kk k g q> /f v θ ð s z ʃ ʒ ç x h/ <f v th dh s z sh zh c x hh> /t͡ʃ/ <ch> /m n ŋ/ <m n nh> /ɹ l ɫ j w/ <rh l lh j w> /r/ <r> /iː uː/ <i u> /ɪ ʊ/ <ih uh> /eː oː/ <e o> /ə/ <'> /ɛ ɔ/ <eh oh> /æː/ <a> /a/ <ah> Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee Ff Gg Hh Ii Jj Kk Ll Mm Nn Oo Pp Qq Rr...

HolyHandGrenade! wrote: ↑04 Jan 2025 17:26 How does one make a logography in Fontstruct? Or is their another program that would be better?

I've used FontStruct a lot before, & from what I know, unless you'll assign the conscipt's glyphs to random characters like &, ®, Ã, Ĉ, Œ, etc., you can't.

Other programs? IDK maybe FontForge?

Облака нет, есть лишь чужой компьютер. [ ˈob.ɫə.kə nʲet̚ | jesʲtʲ lʲɪɕ͜ t͡ɕʊ.ˈʐoi̯ kʌm.ˈpʲju.tɨ̞r ]
Облак-а нет, есть лишь чуж-ой компьютер.
cloud-GEN no , be;PRES merely other's-NOM.MASC computer[ NOM ]
"[There is] no cloud, [there] is merely someone else's computer."

Remebered about Michael Rosen saying those two phrases. Also "hey" was added by me - I'm a bit interested in how other conlangs handle such vocalizations. :eng: Hey, stop doing that! Stop that stupid noise! :con: Proto-Pehian A, ga ko-ki-cika zhe! Ga ko-ki-codedo gifer-e! [ɛ | ɡa ko.kɨ.ˈʂi...

The thing is, no grammatical feature can be described in one word, such as “instrumental”, or even a sentence. For example, reflexives. The exact usage is very language specific. (...) Now, I understand you’re a beginner and the language is still in its early stages, I don’t expect you to have much...

Proto-Pehian's parent lang is Proto-Kesto-Pehian, & it didn't have any 3rd person pronouns, but had two demonstratives: [se] - this & [ʂeː] that. People referred to others by their name or by phrases like "this person" [se xoː]. In the Pehian dialect those phrases became lexicalize...

This doesn’t look bad. This looks very promising [:)] *wipes sweat from his forehead* I am wondering why imperative, negation, and reflexive are all aspects. Aspect represents how an event is framed in time. Imperative is usually a mood, negation is sometimes classified as a mood and sometimes as i...

Is it fine that the conworld I have in mind (in which the culture(s) behind Proto-Pehian & planned related langs exist(s)) is basically "Earth but different continents, cultures & nations"? I mean, it has no magic, no ETs, no non-human sentient beings, no different physics, no folk...

Those who usually see me here have seen some sentences in Proto-Pehian (what I just renamed Pehia to) - full on with glosses & pronunciation. Proto-Pehian is no way near completion, & it's still in a relatively drafty stage, but now I think I've outlined enough of it to present you here. Dis...

a â b ch d dj e en eu é ê f g gn hi hou hu i in j k l m n o oeu on ou ô p r s t tch u un v z /m n ŋʲ/ <m n gn> /p b t~d ʈ~ɖ k ɡ/ <p b t d k g> /t͡ʂ d͡ʐ t͡ɕ d͡ʑ/ <tch dj ch j> /f v s~z sʲ~zʲ ç Xː ʍ/ <f v s z hi hou hu> /r l/ <r l> /i ĩ u ũ/ <i in u un> /e ẽ ø ɵ o/ <e en eu oeu ou> /ɛ ʌ ɔ/ <é a o> /æ...

/p pʰ b ᵐb t tʰ d ⁿd k kʰ g ᵑg kʷ kʷʰ gʷ ᵑgʷ/ <п пь б бб т ть д дд к кь г гг кф кфь гф ггф> /s x h/ <с х хъ> /m n ŋ/ <м н нъ> /l j w/ <л й в> /r/ <р> /i iː u uː/ <ы ы́ у у́> (/ʰi ʰiː ʰu ʰuː/ <и и́ ю ю́>) /e eː o oː/ <э э́ о о́> (/ʰe ʰeː ʰo ʰoː/ <е е́ ё ёо>) /a aː/ <а а́> (/ʰa ʰaː/ <я я́>) Следующий ...

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