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- 22 Apr 2020 06:52
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
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Re: Damta: A collaborative world
Those could work too. :) I was thinking of a general cultural tradition with it. I've added a page for it though.
- 21 Apr 2020 02:53
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
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Re: Damta: A collaborative world
I was just thinking of customs the desert tribes may have. What if there was a tradition of "sky burial" or "silent towers" where basically you put a dead body up high in a specially made tower or on a rock specifically for scavenging birds to consume? The idea being that the bod...
- 20 Apr 2020 22:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Noku speedlang noumi: Today's Speedlang
- Replies: 2
- Views: 999
Re: Noku speedlang noumi: Today's Speedlang
I like some of your design decisions like limiting plurality on nouns to humans and the partial reduplication on polysyllabic words. Just for my own purposes because I am developing a language that has a vocative, did you get the idea of using a marker for both vocative and prepositional from a real...
- 20 Apr 2020 20:24
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
- Views: 143021
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
That works for me as well :)
- 20 Apr 2020 20:07
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kojikeng / Kodikeng
- Replies: 51
- Views: 12940
Re: Kojikeng / Kodikeng
I finally have made some decisions about the cases and noun classes which I'll show below. Here is some background and my current thinking on the development of the language that would become classical Kojikeng: To Classical: Sound changes and the incorporation of new adult speakers from other langu...
- 19 Apr 2020 22:31
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
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- 18 Apr 2020 22:05
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Txabao language
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12264
Re: The Txabao language
I am sure it could happen. I was hoping to have fewer basic colour terms though maybe through time some can be "downregulated" to other terms. Maybe the colour grey could actually have meant just ashes? I already have one word for ashes: hhau. Maybe one word can mean the ashes of a cremat...
- 18 Apr 2020 21:54
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
- Views: 143021
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
The wiki is much improved, especially the front page. One request: Do you think you could rename the Txabao language family to the Txabao ic language family? Done with pleasure! :) I guess if nuclear power predated the combustion engine and steam engine, chemistry would advance sooner (in compariso...
- 18 Apr 2020 21:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kojikeng / Kodikeng
- Replies: 51
- Views: 12940
Re: Kojikeng / Kodikeng
Oh, that is so cool! Zeix , kseu , and pser all merged due to sound changes! There will clearly be a lot of change. It happened with the SAE languages and it happened with the Indo-Aryan languages, so case and declension overhauls are a thing real language families do. It is fascinating. It was my ...
- 18 Apr 2020 19:28
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
- Views: 143021
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
Yeah it's unfortunate. I guess one thing we could do is keep notes in the main timeline brief and important and leave full histories to dedicated pages. I have not looked into the details but something like the tables available to wikipedia would be great.
- 18 Apr 2020 19:13
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Some questions about part of speech
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2319
Re: Some questions about part of speech
I'm with you guys too. haha. It is a huge pedagogical gripe for me how sometimes it is presented as if "walking" in "I am walking" being the verb is the only legitimate analysis. That drives me up the wall though so many can't just explain "though there are other ways to loo...
- 18 Apr 2020 04:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Kojikeng / Kodikeng
- Replies: 51
- Views: 12940
Re: Kojikeng / Kodikeng
I'm going to either rework this thread or make a new thread for an "Old Kojikeng" language. If I do the later I'll just cross link the two threads. Below are the all important pronouns converted from the Txabao language. I'm going to discard the dual forms of things in the third person but...
- 18 Apr 2020 02:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Txabao language
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12264
Re: The Txabao language
Genitives come before the possessed, although when a preposition equivalent to "of" is used instead of a genitive case, the possessed comes first, then the preposition, then the possessor (in oblique case). An animacy hierarchy determines whether the genitive or the prepositional construc...
- 18 Apr 2020 00:42
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Txabao language
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12264
Re: The Txabao language
I look forward to working with everything though :)
- 17 Apr 2020 19:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: The Txabao language
- Replies: 54
- Views: 12264
Re: The Txabao language
I am sure it could happen. I was hoping to have fewer basic colour terms though maybe through time some can be "downregulated" to other terms. Maybe the colour grey could actually have meant just ashes?
You've been so busy!
You've been so busy!
- 17 Apr 2020 00:40
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
- Views: 143021
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
I've been doing some organisation for the front page. https://damta.fandom.com/wiki/Damta_Wiki
I've created a few landing pages for later expansion and interlinking. I.... don't know if Miranda will ever come back but I added a page for the Lúume people too.
I've created a few landing pages for later expansion and interlinking. I.... don't know if Miranda will ever come back but I added a page for the Lúume people too.
- 17 Apr 2020 00:07
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
- Views: 143021
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
I updated the timeline. Please take a look to see what you think and add things. I'm not sure what the best approach will be for us, if not this list format perhaps a table. The tables on the site editor have the disadvantage that editing existing text is tricky in that it is easy to just overwrite ...
- 16 Apr 2020 23:16
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
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Re: Damta: A collaborative world
I've just been doing some updates on the Wiki. I added a world map page with the current world map uploaded and a time line page. I'm just digging through this thread in an attempt to fill in details though its a lot of reading now hahah. I don't know if posting the image at true size on the wiki wi...
- 02 Apr 2020 23:44
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
- Views: 143021
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
Here is an update. I diverted a southern river into E4 so that it has a major river basin and added more northern rivers. The largest river system on the map is on the north west part of the continent. It drains from parts of 2E to 2G and some of 1G. I imagine that there are more smaller rivers or c...
- 22 Mar 2020 19:41
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Damta: A collaborative world
- Replies: 410
- Views: 143021
Re: Damta: A collaborative world
Before too much time passes, do you think there should be any more major rivers or is this pretty good to your eyes? I feel as though I should add some more in the north actually. Even though it is arctic or tundra I notice rivers still exist in such regions.