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When you make a language, and want to keep the loanwords "pure" (mostly unchanged), I've come to realize that you have no choice but to have irregular inflections. But being that I want an agglutinating language, that makes things difficult, considering just how many affixes I'd like to ha...

eldin raigmore wrote:I have trouble imagining, in detail, what Aquatiki is talking about.
But what I imagine about it in general intrigues me.
I'd like to see it.
After I see it I might have a more substantial comment.

I think he's thinking about adding deixis to pronominal affixes or pronouns.

Sounds like a language I'm working on, but the only person that's conjugated for that is the Subjective personal prefix, which is also conjugated for grammatical voice. Its not going to be based off Sepatuk, but its going to be alot like Sepatuk. There are things I liked about Sepatuk that made me t...

What are some recipes you've made and actually named in a conlang? There's Aksha and Peskaksha. Peskaksha is basically Aksha with fish. Peska meaning fish. Aksha being a protein and fiber rich mix of several different beans, rice, pasta and grains. Sometimes also with cheese and vegetables. They're ...

I like your deixis ideas, but will they be found in pronouns or where?

Basically, his point was that it helps prevent endangered languages from dissappearing forever without a trace. This is true. Do you not agree? Even if he's mixed up or not on terminology.

This looks like a very nice start. Your consonant inventory seems a bit minimallistic. I think it would be a good thing to have some rhotic or lateral consonant in there as well. Are the nasals also voiceless? It seems quite strange to have only voiceless nasals. Do the vowels have any diphthongs? ...

Numbers postcede their nouns. They are:
Singular (one) sum
Paucal (few) sam
Multitudal (many) sem



Number isn't inflected into either nouns nor verb persons.
So far, I think I'm going to get away without making pronouns.

I like posting languages here, it helps to get feedback.

It's still in its early stages. The problem is, I want it to be a proto-language, so I can get what I want. A language that has a history that goes from before contact with the sumerians, as far as ending up in a hidden remote part of china or japan in the end, in the close to modern era. O, and som...

Glosses? Oops.... :eng: You helped me walk my dog :con: Sepatuk: Tusanesemu mekuna T-u-san-e-se-mu me-kun-a 2nd.active-NonFut.-walk-compl.-Ind.-1st.com./Instr./Adjutative 1stposs.-dog-Subj./Obj./Dat. The phonology is still incomplete, but this was one of my test samples to see how well it worked fo...

You helped me walk my dog
Sepatuk: Tusanesemu mekuna

Am I mistaken, or are they influenced by Inuit and native american langs?

Interesting. Isn't the paleo-balkans family still in its hypothetical stage? Or has it been supported by the evidence? As for being indoeuropean, from what I know about Burushaski, its got to be distant if related, it seems so distant! I'm skeptical but curious at the same time. I always wanted to k...

In such a language, if there are several minimal pairs of words whose only difference is their stress-patterns, that language could have morphological tone or lexical tone. The difference between the English nouns and verbs "OBject vs obJECT", "RECord vs reCORD", etc., if it wer...

So what exactly is tone? As in, how is it produced? I'm basically tonedeaf and tonemute, and wikipedia didn't exactly enlighten me on it any.

Castilian is just another name for Spanish. ( link ) O okay lol. I was going to say, I had trouble with another relative of spanish when I tried to read it. I figured at first it was spanish spelled different, but because I never heard it, I wasn't sure. Again, my exposure to castilian began just n...

Querido Hadad: Ojala que no tendras problema con mi castellano, ok? Ay de mi, te ha desilusionado la teoria nostratica, eh? A mi tambien, lamentablemente, cuando he leido un articulo por un ex-profesor mio y linguistico, en que las supuestas reconstrucciones nostraticas tenian tanto chance que si s...

The difference is just what I said: on the one hand, you're dealing with volume , and on the other, you're dealing with pitch . There's nothing wrong with your ears—your brain is just wired to handle the particular prosodic devices of English, so it perceives Chinese words through that filter. With...

I've done it a myriad of times. My dislike of the IndoEuropean verb system has made me scrap that part every single time. Also, I end up either abandoning the cases or adding to them.

I don't believe so, no. Language development happens at a very young age, but if there is nothing to instill the development and move it along, it seems that if dies off considerably. There are psychology cases from the 19th and 20th century that show what happens to children who do not have their ...