The CBB

I found these articles through Wikipedia links and partly from Googling. Then a Swedish conlanger shared some pdf's on ConWorkshop.

a perfective in -si (<-zi, troublesome devoicing?) corresponding to Com. Turkic -p In Chuvash it's -sA in affirmative and -sAr in negative, which is the original form. The origin of this is also unclear per se Levitskaya; some speculated a Uralic origin, while other suggest being cognate to Common ...

The Nagy-Szent-Miklos vase inscription is considered by some as Avar (see the paper I cited above, Аварская надпись на сосуде из клада Надь-Сент-Миклош ), and had a totally different interpretation (albeit Oghuric). The interpretation by Mudrak: buila. ʒ́o apan. tesi. žɨGetöGi; buta ul. ʒo apan. t...

(note : the -r suffix becomes -t after stems ending in n, l, or t (kĕttĕm from kĕr- 'enter') -t patalalises in turn to -č (kĕččĕ). IIRC the Chuvash past suffix is -t after n, l and r and -r otherwise; how come it's -r after all other voiceless consonants? Chuvash d>r only works between vowels, does...

If it were *ilč-le-bi, the modern reflex would've been -v- Instead of -p. In Bulgar, the nominative 1sg and 2sg was *bi/be and *si/se, the latter case coinciding with the oblique stem. It's unknown whether this is a conservative feature or an innovation. Chuvash esě doesn't show palatalization on s,...

I mean TMA, tense, mood and aspect. How to construct the present tense is a question: Turkic languages use various strategies. I read a German paper titled ZUM PRÄSENS DER NORDWESTLICHEN UND MITTELASIATISCHEN TÜRKSPRACHEN by LARS JOHANSON, but became more puzzled. It seems that a common strategy in ...

There's also a Rovas/Hungarian Runiform orthography for this conlang, but it is obsolete now, mostly used as a sign of nationalism and ethnic identity, or as decoration. Unfortunately, I have no input method of Rovas nor a font with this script. Besides, verb conjugation is still difficult for me to...

If this migration did take place it must've happened fairly early (before the middle of the first millenium A.D.). Graham Thurgood dated that event after the sack of Indrapura in 982. In addition, how possible is it for a Papuan language to be carried to Africa and Australia by sailors? The Papuan ...

The Papuan Language of Tambora Author(s): Mark Donohue Source: Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 46, No. 2 (Dec., 2007), pp. 520-537 Published by: University of Hawai'i Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20172326 Perhaps one can also make a Papuan conlang spoken elsewhere (Africa or Australia), ...

Well, what are the closest languages to Chamorro? There seems to be none, just like Javanese.

First of all, orthography and phonology: Letter Name Phonetic value A a á ɑ Á á vorom á äː B b bé b C c cé ʦ Č č čé ʧ D d dé d E e é ɛ~æ É é vorom é ɛː(E,S)/eː(W) F f ef f G g gé ɡ H h há h I i í i Í í vorom í iː J j jé j K k ká k L l el l Ľ ľ eľ ʎ M m em m N n en n Ň ň eň ɲ O o ó o~ə(S) Ó ó vorom ó...

Despite the small size of these island, they may be accidentally found by passers-by; the explorers may have landed on Madagascar or even mainland East Africa first before moving to Mascarenes. What I intended is a mercantile, seafaring population with Indian-influenced feudal society; however the r...

By the way, was it the Acehnese who migrated to Champa, or was it the other way around? (I have heard theories of both sort, that includes refugees fleeing either way) Recently I read From Ancient Cham to Modern Dialects by Graham Thurgood, who reconstructed Proto-Chamic. There are many Mon-Khmer l...

/m n ŋ/ <m n ng> /p b t d k ɡ q/ <p b t d k g q> /*t͡s *t͡ɕ/ <ts tc> /*f *v s z ʃ ʒ *ɕ *x ʁ *h/ <f v s z c j cc/ctc h gh h> /l j w/ <l y w> /r/ <r> /ɘ~ɪ ʉ ə ʊ/ <i ü ï u> /əj~ɘj ʊw~əw~ʉw~ɘw <y w> /i̯ɘ y̯ʉ~ø~œ u̯o/ <e ö o> /*i̯e/ <ä> /æ ɑ/ <ä a> /*jo jʊw~jəw~jʉw~jɘw jɑ/ <yo yw ya> Сотта Тұрсынкүл Жола...

I'm recently considering making a conlang spoken in Reunion, Mauritius and Seychelles (even including Chagos Archipelago as well), supposed to be spoken by descendants of Northern Chams after the fall of Indrapura in 982 (as refugees). Assume that some of them managed to escape through Malaccas onto...

Thus, in the language of the Iranian Khalaj (Iranian speakers living on the shores of the Caspian Sea), which according to Indo-Europeanists retains quite useful information and material in its phonetic, grammatical and lexical peculiarities, we find a iterative marker, or more precisely one of plu...

I know that this Turklang is on hiatus for a while, but just want to drop some stuff here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43391366 https://www.christopherculver.com/languages/iranian-substrate-phenomenon-mari-chuvash.html Well, do you have ideas about a group of Chamic langs (all open syllables like ...

Maybe I should abandon this conlang for a while, since resources about Oghuric languages are scarce (and sometimes self-contradicting), and chronology of sound changes are hard to track. Starostin's database contain too many morphemes without Chuvash equivalent plus a few with Bulgar equivalent (but...

Well, the Carpathian Basin/Pannonian Basin/Greater Hungary has become a hotspot for conlanging. Are there anyone from this region on cbb or zbb?

When the ï is part of a glide, is it possible for it to precede a *u or *o?

BTW are you Indonesian, judging from the link beginning with books.google.com.id? If so, what's your mother tongue (and I'll be grateful if you could give suggestions about Austronesian conlanging)?