The CBB

My Brazilian Portuguese-speaking friend just doesn't even pronounce word-final /r/ (with the exception of a following word beginning with a vowel). Maybe that's considered non-standard, though.

Three Lihmelinyan i-stem nouns this time: 22nd éntis - river gen. nteís gen. pronunciation: /n̩.'tei̯s/ The main word for "river" in Lihmelinyan (other terms refer to smaller flowing bodies of water and might be translated "brook" or "stream" or "creek"). Rive...

Do you ever find yourself mispronouncing your own conlang? For me, sometimes this is due to influence from another conlang. When I'm in Arculese mode, I'm inclined to see <g> and think /x/ or /ç/ and I have to remind myself when working with a Lihmelinyan word, that <g> is just /g/ in that language.

Arc. 20th tuguénnā - fem. - mole (burrowing mammal) /tu.xu.'ɛn.naː/ Several Arculese animal names end in -nnā. This ending is unique to Arculese and lacks a Lihmelinyan cognate, but cf. Lih. taúgus - id. 21st sórinth - neut. - pebble, small stone gen. sórinthos /'sɔ.rinθ/ One of a number of neuter n...

19th Arc. bléðā - meadow, glade (pronounced the way it's spelled!) I'd been on the fence about <ð> in Arculese, especially since I've been spelling /θ/ as <th> so that's a bit inconsistent, but here it is. This word refers to an open grassy area surrounded by forest or near the water and can be tran...

I'm sad I haven't participated in Lexember so far [:(] There's just too much going on in my life right now--but I have been lurking in this thread since it started. But I love vocabulary related to nature, so I'll participate this week at least: 18th Arc. ívūr - gen. ívoros - forest (cf. Lih. éwār )...

What I've been doing lately is thinking about cognates between Lihmelinyan and Arculese: eagle Lih. elássēr Arc. iláttīr shoulder Lih. érkanan Arc. írkanom pine tree Lih. álgēn Arc. álgif The latter one being the oddest one. -if from Proto Mantic -ens (-ns to -f, regular sound change in Arculese, cf...

There are a number of examples from Japanese:

e - picture, painting

u - cormorant

a - muteness, dumbness

i - stomach

Nortaneous wrote: ↑20 Sep 2022 02:19 If you really want to do odd shit you could make a separate descendant of Roland Pooth's PIE

I keep getting his articles recommended to me on academia.edu. It is out there, that's for sure.

This is similar to what I've done with my main conlang, Lihmelinyan. Although I only did so with IE grammar, not with the lexicon. But I took the tables I found in Ringe and Sihler (another great resource for IE reconstruction) and had them undergo my own selected sound changes and created grammatic...

I think mine would read more like a historical novel. My conworld isn't particularly fantasy or sci-fi-oriented like many. It's more modeled after early medieval Europe. Part of the reason I enjoyed ASoIaF so much was its lesser reliance on fantasy and its realistic world-building that made me feel ...

I guess one thing I avoid is an overly-complex phonology that I myself can't even pronounce. I like the idea of tones, for example, but I doubt I'll ever create a tonal language unless I can really master pronouncing different tones. There's not too much else that I consciously avoid. But it's alway...

Some reptilian words I came up with recently:

Arculese

bántis - snake, serpent
enávos - cobra, viper, adder, type of poisonous snake (which one being referred to varies by dialect) (cf. Lih. hnáwas - water snake)

the majority of conlangs seem to be largely "unfinished", i.e. not at a point where such translations are possible. Boy is that ever true. I have been falling away from the hobby in recent years and I find that sad, but the ongoing and mammoth task that is conlanging tends to push me away...

Thanks for your answers, guys. Very interesting :D This is the kind of hypothetical linguistics I love.

Just a little hypothetical I thought of this morning: The Romance languages derive their words for "liver" from Latin ficatum , meaning "fig-stuffed". Evidently there was some kind of medieval dish called iecur ficatum "fig-stuffed liver". The actual word for liver, iec...

Thanks shimo! [:D] Although I didn't get past Week 3 this year (things just got really busy toward the end of the month to the point where I had little time online in general) it was still fun to participate and make an attempt with a brand new language (it was interesting how creating new vocabular...

18th

tsáwam - I turn

tsaúkar - wheel

tsawéppam - I keep turning, rotate, revolve (-epp forms iterative/frequentative verbs)

17th Simple one for today: yéyam - I go yéyamas Peceléñats "We are going to Betelenya" go-1.PL.PRES Betelenya-ALL The allative ending -ats is a Tamagic innovation, but may be related to the -ze ending found in the Lihmelinyan allative plural (which has been reconstructed as -s-de (plural s...

15th cítyam - I come This verb seems to have its origins in a reduplicated present stem, but this is not a verb class in Tamagic (as it is in Lihmelinyan) and this verb has become part of the -yam class. cf. Arc. tótemi , with same meaning 16th thársām - I stretch (can be intransitive or transitive,...