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- 06 Jan 2022 05:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
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Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
"Excuse me—they say it's good luck to choose the candlemakers' house," the frustrated lady who was seated below her told her. > “Show mercy on my head”, he told the highborn woman, groaning in pain underneath her. “It is said that it’s a good omen to choose a builders’ house of firewood.”...
- 11 Dec 2021 21:31
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2021
- Replies: 303
- Views: 44360
Re: Lexember 2021
Been traveling, have to catch up a bit! Have some nouns. Alál: Day 7 XMIhraḶ 3 AGT xmıhraíḷ [xmɛç'ritɬ] OBL xmıhraàıḷ [xmɛç'rɑjtɬ] PAT xmıhraùıḷ [xmɛç'rojtɬ] COM xımìhraḷ [xɛ'meçrətɬ] fridge magnet - Declension class I3 | Handling class ta - From √XMIḶ 'magnet', - hra - 'attached on a vert...
- 06 Dec 2021 01:27
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2021
- Replies: 303
- Views: 44360
Re: Lexember 2021
Alál: Day 4 TAḲ2vr̀·MIR2 AGT taḳìlmır [t̪ɐ'ŋelmɪr] OBL taḳìlmarı [t̪ɐ'ŋelmərɪ] PAT taḳìlmıúr [t̪ɐ'ŋelmjur] Polyglot, multilingual person - Declension class I2 | Handling class ku - From TAḲ2 'two', √ LMIR 'tongue, petal (of flower), paintbrush' Lakìttaḳalí lual mú taḳìlmır. [ɬɐ'ket̪əŋəɮi ɬfɐl...
- 03 Dec 2021 10:08
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2021
- Replies: 303
- Views: 44360
Re: Lexember 2021
Alál: Day 3 LAL1 vŕ· ḲMAM3 AGT lâlaḳmíma [ɬa'ɬɑŋmim] OBL lálâḳmam ['ɬaɮaŋmɑm] PAT lálâḳmuma ['ɬaɮaŋmom] Vocal chords, vocal folds. - Declension class A3 | Handling class mı/la - From LAL1 'language', √ ḲMAM 'thread, rope, sinew, lightning'. "Ak·lálâḳmam rııhìrakı." [ɐk 'ɬaɮaŋmɑm rɛj...
- 02 Dec 2021 09:14
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2021
- Replies: 303
- Views: 44360
Re: Lexember 2021
Alál: Day 2
mıtka /'mɛt̪kə/
Evidental no, negative (as answer to a polar question) where the information is new to the speaker
¿Ṭûırǎmı ḳaṭusùx? /'t̪ˈwerɑmi ŋɐʔʊ'sox/ "Have you gotten over your phobia?"
Mıtka. /mɛt̪kə/ "Clearly not."
mıtka /'mɛt̪kə/
Evidental no, negative (as answer to a polar question) where the information is new to the speaker
¿Ṭûırǎmı ḳaṭusùx? /'t̪ˈwerɑmi ŋɐʔʊ'sox/ "Have you gotten over your phobia?"
Mıtka. /mɛt̪kə/ "Clearly not."
- 01 Dec 2021 21:33
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Lexember 2021
- Replies: 303
- Views: 44360
Re: Lexember 2021
Alright. Time to actually participate consistently for once! (...maybe) Alál maıḷ /mɐjt͡ɬ/ or ṭḷ /ǁ/ Interjection; expression of surprise, particularly when an event known to be unlikely to occur has done so. Ṭḷ Tuhùukàx! "Wow, you hunted and caught something!" Mulas maıḷ! "I did (and...
- 29 Nov 2021 20:40
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Tools for grammatical evolution?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1596
Re: Tools for grammatical evolution?
The closest thing I've found is the World Lexicon of Grammaticalization, which is unidirectional but has been pretty useful to me in the past (there's a 'source>target' list in the appendices that show what elements seem to like turning into what other elements). Not much in the way of syntactic cha...
- 23 Nov 2021 21:50
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: Why is it so cold today?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6573
Re: Why is it so cold today?
Alál
Kıuḳùllusí rasa haúh úl·sa ma?
[kɛv'ŋoɬʊz̪i rɐz̪ çʕ̞uç uz̪ mɐ]
ku<ıv>ḳ-ùl-ls-í ra<a.#a>s ha<aú>h úl=sa ma
be_cold<3>-AFF-PRS-STAT now<OBL> air<PAT> because=that.OBL Q
Why is the air so cold today?
Kıuḳùllusí rasa haúh úl·sa ma?
[kɛv'ŋoɬʊz̪i rɐz̪ çʕ̞uç uz̪ mɐ]
ku<ıv>ḳ-ùl-ls-í ra<a.#a>s ha<aú>h úl=sa ma
be_cold<3>-AFF-PRS-STAT now<OBL> air<PAT> because=that.OBL Q
Why is the air so cold today?
- 18 Nov 2021 22:02
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: Maps: how my countries and cities look like
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2790
Re: Maps: how my countries and cities look like
Another from me, these maps are gorgeous! I used to dabble in hand-drawn mapmaking but could never get this kind of detail and realism. Awesome work.
- 10 Nov 2021 10:11
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Alál: 59 Circumstantials and an Antipassive
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12801
Alál: Now Conforming to Cartesian Coordinates!
Axes Part 3: Y - fore-to-aft, east-to-west I could say front-to-back but I want to talk about boats, damn it. Third verse, same as the first. And the second. With this, we go back to ambiguity between cardinal and relative direction. After all these years I'm finally correcting the Y-Z axis mix-...
- 30 Oct 2021 00:28
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 197
- Views: 64377
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
Xa·sa arìzẓàx Latàah·tızılîax kalımut x·rııskùaúẓ Uḷìmtumraıá : ıs·sa Ramrakàzaı áza·htakàaúḳ múh·alaẓál. I hosted a Halloween tea for my department yesterday, and we all had linguistics-themed costumes. Álı·sám ḳamlamaḳmàma ırì·alàl (ḳamlamaḳmàx rııskùr·alàl) : Hàxraı harùsa ltahám ruá... I was a ...
- 22 Oct 2021 12:03
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: "Remix Earth"
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3078
Re: "Remix Earth"
I really love/appreciate your world map - how did you determine what regions would have what climates? I've reached both extremes of waving a hand and saying magic did it, versus modeling ocean currents to determine realistic average temperatures, so I love to hear other people's processes. Also, I ...
- 08 Oct 2021 07:13
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32040
- 07 Oct 2021 05:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread
- Replies: 197
- Views: 64377
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
~ ~ ~ Sì·Uḷìmtumraıá kamut zaḷá·zḷam! ~ ~ ~ 25 days to Halloween! Kǔulàmàx htuǔlum? Do y'all have any spooky plans? https://c.tenor.com/SmKGlfj3-b8AAAAC/spooky-scary.gif Á·Mrızmı·mrıızkǐmı skalı. It's always been my favorite holiday. Mızuhìtıu·mırımı kıús ak·tmímazk·amtırraıḳmàma ak·hıḳaxı amìràkk ...
- 21 Sep 2021 12:46
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32040
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Torch sent to Jackk and Click!
This took a long while, but it was a fun one.
This took a long while, but it was a fun one.
- 18 Sep 2021 10:51
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32040
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Text is translated from Osroene (translated well , I can't promise), currently working on translation into Alál. I have a conference tomorrow so this will likely take until Sunday and possibly Monday; this is one of the longer and more complicated texts I've seen in these, probably because I'm so ea...
- 17 Sep 2021 19:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32040
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
Torch received! I'll tackle that this evening.
- 16 Sep 2021 00:20
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today?
- Replies: 735
- Views: 207530
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Real life linguistics-related accomplishment: Started getting a ton of participants for my dissertation research. Exciting. Slightly terrifying. Why am I, a person who in general does not like talking face-to-face with strangers, doing sociophonetics? Why did I make these decisions? Why have I not y...
- 08 Sep 2021 11:54
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Alál: 59 Circumstantials and an Antipassive
- Replies: 39
- Views: 12801
Alál: Compound Nouns, Briefly
I play a frankly ridiculous amount of DnD (currently in three campaigns, which is a rather low number - one pathfinder game and a Call of Cthulhu campaign have been on hold for some time now) and should absolutely give some thought one of these days to how I would derive terms for things like 'criti...
- 02 Sep 2021 00:03
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - IT BEGINS (late signups accepted)
- Replies: 187
- Views: 32040
Re: CBB Conlang Relay XIV - SIGNUPS OPEN UNTIL MON 13th SEP
Definitely up for this again! Will probably use Alál, unless I feel particularly inspired to work some more on V4.