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Lexember 6 Classical Bokisig <jezde> /'jez.de/ ['jez.dɛ] v = to be fertile (of soil) Etymology: For Early Boksig /ɣez-he/, the second stative verbaliser (VBZ 4 ) /he/ was added to the noun “green”. This verbaliser conveys that something has the quality of (potentially) putting something or somebody...

Short interlude about clothing, something I think much too rarely about! Both in real life and in conworlding. So I just did some basics. Lexember 5: Classical Bokisig (CBKSG) CBKSG <hol> /hol/ n = cloth Etymology: boring, as this word was not affected by phonological or semantic changes CBKSG <gabo...

Forgot to post my entry for the second on here, and yesterday I had to keep bedrest, so gonna do both the second and the fourth today, and I'm afraid there won't be a third. Lexember 2: Classical Bokisig (CBKSG) CBKSG <lechoma> /le'ʧo.ma/ [lɛ'ʧo.ma] vt = to grow (plants) Etymology: Early Bokisig /le...

Lexember 1: Classical Bokisig <jez> /jez/ n 1. leaf of a plant; plural: <jeskom> /'jes.kom/ 2. the colour green; plural: <jeziz> /je.ziz/ Etymology: Early Bokisig /ɣez/ n = 1. leaf of a plant 2. the colour green Given that stative verbs functioning as adjectives were derived from the root in the Ea...

btw everyone, I have written that Kompalia is a pioneer in contacting non-human extraterrestrial civilizations, but I am not sure if this is ok for you all. Also I want to keep the mechanism of FTL drives unexplained as of now, is it ok for you all? Both fine by me. I am still a few ages away from ...

I've done a bit more conworlding - written some more about the Second Confederation, and started an article about religion/philosophy in the Bokisig culture. I've also measured some distances, and though I've only occupied a small part of the map so far, some of the distances were huge. I'd like to ...

k1234567890y wrote: ↑29 Oct 2020 11:38 Also

I am having an idea of sharing the Querlongs, a group of non-human aliens from my conworld(s) with Damta.

I wouldn't have any problem with that, but would just like to keep non-human aliens to very late in the timeline, i.e. a fair bit after the beginning of the space age.

Glad to have an interested reader in elemtilas, and good job on Khemehekis for the tireless work on our collab! I've not yet gotten to reading what you've created in the time I was mostly absent, but I hope to get to that soon. I've just added some new history, this time about The Second Confederati...

I'm going through a massively stressful time just now, so haven't been Damta-ing much. Hopefully soon again!

What's the numbers from 1 to 10?

Verb template Now that we already know about noun incorporation, definiteness marking and transitivity, we can finally take a look at the whole verb template! An important thing to note is that, through diachronic vowel harmony processes, verbs generally contain only front vowels, with the notable ...

Thanks, will look into it!

Problem now is that, besides the conlang, I don't have any specific setting in mind yet, while I would like to present one. So I will give that some thought, while browsing the IB wiki.

You could put it in Ill Bethisad . I'm not sure if it will be well thought-out enough for this, and there's also the issue of limited freedom of choice in where I want things to go then. On the other hand, I quite like restrictions in order to jumpstart ideas/creativity. But I think Ill Bethisad is...

Ditransitivity As noted above, it is possible to further increase the valency of transitive roots by using the causative morpheme <teh>, essentially making the verb ditransitive. The same process applies to intransitive roots too; also, the causative morpheme can simply be reduplicated, cf. the fol...

I vote secundative (dechticaetiative), not on the basis that it fits better with what else you’ve decided, but simply on the basis it’s what I’d like to see you do! I'm afraid I've decided against it, as you will see in the following post, but I will definitely keep secundative marking in the runni...

2) Iceland. It's an island, like you said, and it's at least within reason that history could play out in much the same way as in our timeline if Iceland had been settled by a group culturally similar to Scandinavians but linguistically isolated. Perhaps they could be descended from the pre-Sámi hu...

While I was writing up the next bit of grammar to be unleashed here, I ran into an issue, or rather an element where I'm on the fence, so I'd like to ask for people's opinions about it. As noted above, it is possible to further increase the valency of transitive roots by using the causative morpheme...

Valency and the causative morpheme <teh> Mbath verb roots are either lexically intransitive or transitive, but never both (ambitransitive). Both intransitive and transitive verb roots can generally be increased in valency by the causative morpheme <teh> in the relevant slot of the verb template (I ...

Noun incorporation for definiteness-marking on an agent Since the definiteness morpheme on the verb always relates to an “absolutive” argument (subject of intransitive clauses, object of transitive clauses; never the agent of a transitive clause), the only way to make an agent definite is to incorp...

I'd like to introduce Gwapikiru, a language first created as an example in the Snowball Game thread, as a present-day rain-forest language on Damta. Its phonemic inventory: m /m/ n /n/ p /p/ b /b/ t /t/ d /d/ k /k/ g /g/ q /q/ ' /ʔ/ kw /k w / gw /g w / qw /q w / s /s/ x /ɕ/ j /ʑ/ v /ʋ/ r /ʀ/ w /w/ ...