The CBB

Play ŋaupe to vote (in an election), to turn one's opinion into an action. The MRCA etymology I have listed is ŋaku "coat, covering" but I suspect I lost track of a homophone somewhere ... this is actually not a new word, but a word I rescued from a section of my dictionary that I didnt do...

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žeube "to sing", from an MRCA word guli that also provides words for other things such as stripes and facial features.

Still working on other things but the power outage really disrupted my schedule.

there was a power outage and im still getting things back together. all i have for today is Play vipabe "sentence", as in grammar, from MRCA li hipa plus a classifier suffix.

Play bapapupa a treaty, a document of alliance. This refers to a tangible object; if the agreement is verbal it is a bapapupe . First, a note on phonetics ... Play, like many other languages in its family, features bilabial consonants as the most frequent by far in its small inventory. And unlike so...

Thanks for the comments, as always. I should be able to participate more fully this week. Play The name of any language in Play can be formed by suffixing a noun with the speech noun classifier suffix -be . Thus the name of the Play language can be Patabe , as the primary Play word for play is pata ...

ŋamba "clam", from MRCA ŋa ŋe ŋāmba "mussel", from MRCA ŋuŋi In the sea these would have the -pa classifier suffix, but it becomes -ba (handheld) once inside the kitchen. Despite the resemblance in form and meaning, these aren't cognates and I have no plans to make them into cog...

šepi , any bad smell. Most commonly used for human waste, but can be used by comparison for other things, particularly things that have gone bad or smell bad when they're not expected to. From MRCA higi ḳugi , where ḳ spells a velar ejective, a common sound that nonetheless I don't think I've used ...

Play pāptubataba , a poetic word for candy. The /pāptu/ part comes from a MRCA phrase wom ka ndwu , which came to mean pine sap, though as with many other examples here it wasn't a set phrase in the parent language and the word order requires the third word to have been added much later than the fir...

For now, all I have to share is Play putaši "spice", from MRCA pum twohil "fire in small bits" (though likely not a set phrase at the time). putaši looks like "potash" or "potassium." Easter egg or coincidence? Coincidence. All my conlangs are a priori apart ...

Im going to struggle with this week as well, as cooking is really not well-developed in my writing. In some aspects this reflects a real cultural difference, but I'm still lacking even some words for very basic concepts. For now, all I have to share is Play putaši "spice", from MRCA pum tw...

Play (days 5 and 6) tūiba and kataba , both words for objects that can be repurposed as weapons. A tūiba denotes any ordinary handheld object whose primary use is not dangerous, .... something that would be unreasonable to prohibit access to outside a preschool or a prison. A kataba is an object rec...

Play (day 4) tapaba , a gemstone. This is more backward progress here, as I had been carrying for many years a set of words for different gemstones, inspired by childhood knowledge of birthstones (for astrology) and by a verse in the Bible. But I realized it was unlikely for a society like the Playe...

a reply to the above post from shimobaatar: Very interesting! Does nūs mean "two"? Also, if I might ask, is the name that you use for this language actually the English word "play", or does it just happen to be spelled the same? Yes, all of my recent projects are given English na...

Play nušam "second (place); half". The syncresis of ordinal numbers and fractional numbers, just like English has from third place on, is intentional, though I don't remember right now whether I came to it on my own or if I decided that the English system made enough logical sense that I d...

Play pūmna , a twin; one of a set of twins. Its etymology in MRCA (the parent language of Play and all its known relatives) was pum ŋana , to share a crib. The dual form of this word is pūmnabup , which is regular, and refers to a set of two twins born together. This is separate from saying pūmna nū...

i would analyze the Lithuanian system as á ~ áa ~ aá. Makes more sense that way and also explains why diphthongs can only take the rising or falling tones, never a simple high tone. Since there's only one marked vowel in each word, it makes no difference if we think of it as a tone or a stress. Kind...

σκῶρ ~ σκᾰτός whoa .... i had no idea those two words were even related, let alone that they were the same word. the "-mentum" theory makes sense to me though ..... see for example how many words ending in -ma have plurals in -mata, .... and how there's a different alternation between -ma...

which reminds me of the three-way split between stops in Korean, the three-way length contrasts for both vowels and consonants in some Uralic languages, and Americanist phonetic notation's "half-voiced" series, which may be a relic of an earlier age in which we didn't quite understand the ...

when i was in my late teens, and had only irregular access to the Internet, i had a language with tonal consonants (i think 3 tones), "hard" vs "soft" which was about literal articulatory force, three sets of bilabials distinguished by lip shape, three velar series (front, middle...

if i accept "really" as an interjection, theyre all gramatical, but 5 and 8 are the worst, and the only ones where it would need to be an interjection . i do this deliberately odd placement with other words too e.g. "please", "of course", "even", sometimes to ...