The CBB

Full list of Skasti nominal cases: Nominative: /-∅/ la "the water (subject)" Accusative: /-~/ lą "the water (object)" Genitive: /-:/ lá'a "belonging to the water" Dative: /-lu/ lálu "to/for the water" Locative: /-ʔu/ lá'u "at/on/inside the water" And...

Expansion of Being States: ●though they are complimentary forms, there is a difference between w̌ya and ta : •/bja/ is the internal world; one's Self. •it represents someone's experience of life. •this is said as oneself, inferring to one's agency to state what oneself is. Íeyu wew̌yá. "I am a ...

Slight grammar update; passive clauses: -ye and passive voice: ●ɒʍ̗əʌɪv̖svɒv̗• Kèdilúhukù [ˌke.zi.ˈlu.hu.ˌku] ke-di-lúhu-ku 3m.3f-TRNS.IMM.PST-see-NEG "He didn't just see her." ●ɒx̖rʍ•ƨ̊xɪv̖svbɪw̗:• Káye s'alúhuy̌lǫ̀ [ˈka.je s'a.ˈlu.hu.ˌglõ] ka-ye s-ħa-lúhu-ku-tą 3m-PROL 3f.INTRNS.IMM.PST-...

Would written geminated /ʔ/ be <">? It would be intuitive but it strikes my eye oddly. Also, fan of them both. Probably yes. Some people use <q> for /ʔ/ but I don't like it either. Do you have some other options? I thought the apostrophe was kinda cool. I don’t think i have ever seen anyone do...

Would written geminated /ʔ/ be <">? It would be intuitive but it strikes my eye oddly.

Also, fan of them both.

I hope it's not a bad thing to continue to update for sake of a few drops of vocabulary. mno [m̩ˈno~ˈmno] "to sleep (make reference to one's sleep)" mnóhlu [m̩ˈnoɬu~ˈmnoɬu] "to dream" mnópą [m̩ˈnopã~ˈmnopã] "to put to sleep" mnópħą [m̩ˈnopxã~ˈmnopxã] "to put onese...

No "the," but Skasti has an indefinite article me- /me/ (one) and a negative sǫ- /θõ~θo/ (no(t any)). These two do not behave like the other number suffixes, where they have become more attributable to some degree of "definiteness." There apparently are 5 degrees of definiteness....

Family: đǫ [d͡ʒõ] "father" lóra [ˈloɣa] "mother" /*d͡ʒoɴ/ + /*lóɡ͡ɣa/ > /*d͡ʒóɴloɡ͡ɣa/ > /*d͡ʒóɴlɡ͡ɣa/ > /*d͡ʒṍtk͡xa/ > /ˈd͡ʒõtxa/ đǫ́tħa [ˈd͡ʒõtxa] "parents" wémi [ˈwemi] "baby" ňáyi [ˈŋaji] "boy/son" áyi [ˈaji] "girl/daughter" ňéayi [ˈŋe̯...

Expansion of possession: /ˈtxVpã/ "give" /ˈtxVju/ "carry/hold" /ˈtxVji/ "take to" /ˈtxVje/ "bring from" •these conjugate. /ˈtapã/ "make" (cause-to-(statively)-be) Łíw̌ietù'elìdię wew̌yá. [ˈdi.bi̯e.ˌtu.ʔe.ˌli.zi̯ẽ we.ˈbja] "I am DV82LEZM" (T...

…. Sle [sle] "from where the cold comes/North" Hta [xta] "from where the heat comes/South" •these words derive from roots of the same meaning, each "go up/above," "go down/below," "be cold," "be hot," respectively. …. This part of this lan...

Astronomical Terminology: Cíy̌la [ˈsigla] "the Sun" Awá [aˈwa] "the Moon" Swéki [ˈsweki] "the Clouds" Mayédea [maˈjeze̯a] "the Earth" Ríšče [ˈɣiʃt͡ʃe] "the Stars" Riškwéki [ɣi'ʃkweki] "the Milky Way/galaxy" Ìląpáskwe [ˌilãˈpaskwe] "the...

Ooo, I am loving the love for heterorganics. Gemination is appreciable, but dissimilating consonants make a word sound like more. It's hard to explain.

Something a bit more Eurasian (if not European) inspired by some allophony I had been considering for my pseudo-Lakes-Plain inventory above. Starting with an inventory like this: /m n/ /p t k/ /pʰ tʰ kʰ/ /b d g/ /s h/ /l r/ /w j/ The aspirated stops undergo a Siouan-like change where the aspirated ...

I have been using this page as my board for the language's development over the last year. One of my posts almost has hį́ya edits. I have done a bit with the numbers but no one would ever see it. This is how my numbers work with large values. hni /xni/ 100 hį́ya /ˈhĩja/ 1000 w̌lohį́ya /bloˈhĩja/ 10,...

The only further I can see /b t d ɸ s/ going would be the loss of /t/, merging with /s/. At what point would people just be talking static? If there is to be a phonemic bounce-back to a larger inventory, I imagine there could be potentially strange phonemes to derive until a most balanced state, lik...

What is the phonemic form of [fandrombəŋgə]? /ɸəəɴrəw ə ɴɸəɴxə/? There also seems to be a random phonemic /t/. Is this an allophone? There is a phonetically rendered [t], which makes sense to your diagrams. Would you shed light? oops You know what, I was going to put that! I even had originally put...

Thanks, I will look into it. I am honestly contemplating something along the lines of inference to temporal events based on the mythological past and future, but along the lines of the imagination. I want it to be a way to talk about things that did and will happen outside of the scope one's prefere...

What is the phonemic form of [fandrombəŋgə]? /ɸəəɴrəw ə ɴɸəɴxə/? There also seems to be a random phonemic /t/. Is this an allophone? There is a phonetically rendered [t], which makes sense to your diagrams. Would you shed light? oops You know what, I was going to put that! I even had originally put...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑29 Jan 2024 13:21 Yes. It blows my own Svalbardian right out of the water!

I had one called Yatton that had /p t k ʔ i u a/. (Sadly, it got weird.) Your allophony is very reminiscent of my process, then.

I am still working out the wider implications that this idea could entail, but I am looking to make Yulá Skásti Maskǫ́łe (The River Skasti Language) into a philosophical language of a sort. I could derive a people for this, but I likely won't. This is becoming a way that I derived to take my thought...