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by Creyeditor
12 Mar 2024 20:25
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347326

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

This sounds unusual but not impossible. One way to think of it would be that voicing is contrastive and breathy voice is just an allophonic process that applies to voiced stops before vowels, which is still unusual but maybe not as unusual. IMHO, it would be easier to say that vowels are contrastive...
by Creyeditor
12 Mar 2024 09:03
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Fredauon Fun Fact #28: The Northern Islands of the shore of the Wizard Republic have remained politically independent for most of their history. After the Great War and especially in the Era of Reconciliation they have exerted a notable cultural influence on the Wizard Republic. They are also well-...
by Creyeditor
11 Mar 2024 15:24
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Fredauon Fun Fact #27: Writing evolved several times independently on Fredauon. One family includes the Ancient cuneiform scripts and the Abjad/Abigudas used around the Great Mountains, e.g. by the Wizards. Independent families includes the logographic/syllabic blackletter runes around Bólks, the c...
by Creyeditor
10 Mar 2024 19:53
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Which was of course my inspiration for the deconstruction/reconstruction.
by Creyeditor
10 Mar 2024 13:56
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

True, these dwarves are not bearded, just short. But malnoutrition and lack of sunlight will make them look different from regular people. Maybe dirt from underground labour will also make them look older.
by Creyeditor
10 Mar 2024 10:17
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Fredauon Fun Fact #26: The Pang-speaking Dark Elves are a group that split from the Elves after the Great War. Post-traumatic stress disorder caused several violent crimes which lead to the expulsion of many veterans, who later formed the Dark Elves. The Dark Elves have a complex culture that inclu...
by Creyeditor
09 Mar 2024 17:46
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Fredauon Fun Fact #25
The so-called Dwarves are victims of forced child labour working in the mines of the southern Great Mountains in order to provide the Wizard Republic with precious metals Outsiders -unaware of the facts- consider them an ethnic group.
by Creyeditor
08 Mar 2024 15:00
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Fredauon Fun Fact #24: The highest decision making institution of the Elves is the general gathering. Everyone is welcome to attend and to speak at the gathering (before the Great War only heads of treehouseholds could attend). Decisions are generally reached by consensus, postponed, or delgated to...
by Creyeditor
08 Mar 2024 08:56
Forum: Translations
Topic: If anyone knowing the nature of good and evil...
Replies: 7
Views: 274

Re: If anyone knowing the nature of good and evil...

It showed up in the Teach & Learn subforum for me yesterday. It doesn't today. Weird [:S]
by Creyeditor
07 Mar 2024 19:59
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

So you were thinking of dragon flellyfishes? Great idea but I think there won't be any fire-breathing creatures on Fredauon. There will be Flying Dragons though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_%28lizard%29?wprov=sfla1 Oh, and water dragons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_water_dragon?wpr...
by Creyeditor
07 Mar 2024 18:16
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Oooh, that's a great idea. Let a large number of flellyfish float over to your enemies castle/base camp and then light them with a burning arrow/bullet?
by Creyeditor
07 Mar 2024 17:48
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Why do cows not explode?
Maybe it should be something akin to hot nitrogen instead of hot air? Or hot airvwithout anything akin to oxygen?
This reminds me of an element on Fredauon: phlogiston. Maybe that could help?
by Creyeditor
06 Mar 2024 15:47
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Fredauon Fun Fact #23: Floating Jellyfish (or Flellyfish) are another peculiar part of Fredauon fauna. Their digestion produces a mixture that includes hot air and methane (provided by bacteria) in a enlarged gastric pocket, which allows them to float into the air and prey on small bats, flying fis...
by Creyeditor
05 Mar 2024 17:33
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
Replies: 10
Views: 562

Re: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)

I like the three melody inventory. It gives a nice pitch-accent like touch.
by Creyeditor
05 Mar 2024 17:11
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

by Creyeditor
03 Mar 2024 23:43
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Fredauon Fun Fact #22: At the height of the Space Age on Fredauon, the following space-faring species/civilizations are known: the humans from Fredauon, the Beep (also known as The Green), short three-eyed humanoids who use their skin for photosynthesis and live on a planet in a neighbouring solar ...
by Creyeditor
03 Mar 2024 11:38
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)
Replies: 10
Views: 562

Re: Ai 12.0 (still a Lakes Plain language)

Nice tone section. I think the melody mapping and the melody inventory is very naturalistic. I also like the low raising at the word level and the word-final low boundary tone. I was wondering if similar stuff happens across word boundaries or at the end of a phrase. Your tone dissimilations are a b...
by Creyeditor
03 Mar 2024 01:19
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Fredauon Fun Fact #21: A curious part of Fredauon fauna are the so-called land sponges, a species of sponge that resembles certain fungi in their outer appearance. They occur in areas that have both high humidity as well as lots of wind. They consist of several sticky interconnected tube-like struc...
by Creyeditor
02 Mar 2024 14:41
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Fredauon Fun Facts
Replies: 99
Views: 5304

Re: Fredauon Fun Facts

Both, I would say.
by Creyeditor
01 Mar 2024 07:45
Forum: Conlangs
Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1675
Views: 347326

Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I don't think it's actually all that common for polysynthetic languages to have noun classes; they're characteristic of dependent-marking languages, while polysynthetic languages tend to be strongly head-marking. But as Bininj-gun-Wok shows, it's still possible. But Bantu languages have noun classe...