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Trying for the millionth time to get back into Híí diachronics and below is the latest version of the Late Híí phoneme inventory. Late Híí is the immediate predecessor of the modern Central Híí dialects, including Híí Proper and River Híí. High Híí, a ceremonial version of Híí Proper retains some of...

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑25 Dec 2022 01:15

Egerius wrote: ↑22 Dec 2022 15:24

Khemehekis wrote: ↑21 Dec 2022 13:59 Anyone remember 10 years ago today?

Yes.

The world ended when we collided with Nibiru, right!

Strange how I failed to notice.

Came up with a spelling rule for a conlang aesthetic I’ve been playing with. Said as-yet-unnamed lang has the high vowels /i ɯ u/ i į u and permits vowel sequences of some complexity with few restrictions. There is therefore nothing stopping sequences such as /ɯi iɯ/ from occurring so I came up with...

Inspired by Fuheko 3.0, probably for a Híí dialect or Híí-adjacent language:
There should be lots of endings like -yeðð’e.

qw__ wrote: ↑23 Dec 2022 15:32 Thanks for znex and desesseintes! I'll have a good look at these conlangs, but now I just want to lie in bed to recover from my fever. Perhaps it's because of the covid but without self-testing tools at hand I cannot make sure anyway.

全国都阳在床上

Znex wrote: ↑22 Dec 2022 13:30 Rangyayo,

Rangyayo!!!

Thank you

stuff Salmoneus, I’ve been trying to remember the name of a conlang that was quite prominent on the ZBB many many moons ago, but I’ve been unable to find it. It was modelled on Japanese and had a similar syllable structure (except it allowed CwV syllables iirc). The reason I though to ask if you mi...

Chhuowòta vowel gradation is intensifying; Some roots now seem to have up to six different allomorphs. For instance, the root √si has the following grades: ság sà sé sè sí sig And for √rhiitts we get: rhiátts rhàitts rhiétts rhiètts rhìitts rhiitts Other roots have somewhat less variation, for insta...

DesEsseintes: 12 Lexember - Chhuowòta Root √blun - VARIATION; CHANGE blàunua (v.stat.) - to be different bluòniige (perf. bluádnáwa ) (v.act.) - to change Blàunuòshiy. - You (pl.) are different. Bluádnáwan. - I’ve changed. Very intrigued by what I've seen so far of Chhuowòta's root system! Thank yo...

Luògùluon and Shímóbàtar are phonotactically sound Chhuowòta words. …while Chhuowòta isn’t [xD] Are the acute and grave accents tone markers? Yes, exactly. (assuming that's why "Chhuowòta" is not a phonotactically valid word in Chhuowòta?). That is indeed the reason! Woo! Double post. Cha...

Would it be a good idea to have a fourth cup of coffee to a) make it thru this day; and b) ensure I stay awake until 5 am twitching?

Woo! Double post. Changed the orthography of Chhuowòta. Old: /i ɯ u/ i u uu New: /i ɯ u/ ii i u However, there are two exceptions: 1. /i/ is spelt i after the palatals ch chh j sh y 2. /i/ is spelt iy word-finally, irrespective of the preceding consonant with the exception of word-final /ji/ which i...

I came up with personal endings I actually don’t dislike for stative verbs in Chhuowòta! Here are two sample conjugation from the root √tłii - to stand: tłiáwa - to stand/be stood somewhere tłiáwan tłiùliy tłiùyi tłiáppiin tłiùshiy tłiáwu tłiìnáwa - to be up, to have stood up tłiìnáwan tłiìnáuliy tł...

I’ve studied both languages and personally find Korean harder due to nuances in pronunciation that to me are more challenging than anything in Japanese. The grammars of the two languages are quite comparable. I don’t think the politeness registers and honorifics in Korean are any more complex than i...

12 Lexember - Chhuowòta

Root √blun - VARIATION; CHANGE

blàunua (v.stat.) - to be different
bluòniige (perf. bluádnáwa) (v.act.) - to change

Blàunuòshiy. - You (pl.) are different.
Bluádnáwan. - I’ve changed.

shimobaatar wrote: ↑10 Dec 2022 01:23

loglorn wrote: ↑10 Dec 2022 01:02

DesEsseintes wrote: ↑09 Dec 2022 15:12 I’m having fun conlanging for the first time in years so that’s an achievement!

Rediscovering my conlang Chhuowòta.

Hurray! Hurray!

Luògùluon and Shímóbàtar are phonotactically sound Chhuowòta words.

I’m having fun conlanging for the first time in years so that’s an achievement!

Rediscovering my conlang Chhuowòta.

Thank you for commenting, shimobaatar! Like others have mentioned, it is appreciated! DesEsseintes: won - 1st person singular pronoun nı’- (num.) - two Wosh ní’nıı eyóonısh… - If I want two of them… I assume that "wosh" in the example is a form of the pronoun "won"? Correct! The ...

4 Lexember - Éewıyu’ush

chul (n.) - person
-(n)o - classifier for human beings

Chúllu ní’no wee. - There are two people (there).

3 Lexember - Éewıyu’ush

-nun/-nın - indefinite non-specific singular marker (the vowel sometimes harmonises with the vowel in the preceding syllable)
yó’e (n.) - fish

Yo’énın eyóote. - I want a fish. (i.e. one non-specific fish; not one I already have in mind)