The CBB

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...

Torch received! I'll tackle that this evening.

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...

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...

Definitely up for this again! Will probably use Alál, unless I feel particularly inspired to work some more on V4.

Form and Pattern (Part IV) shape angle bump (on the head) bump (in a road) curve dot drop hole (in the ground) hole (in a wall, sofa) hole (that goes all the way through) knot (in rope or string) knot (in ribbon) line mark (leaves a ~) opening (in cave, tunnel, etc.) pit (hole) point (in space) rin...

I'm figuring you already have a word for "hexagon", since you seem to have all the basic n-gon words. Do you have a word for "honeycomb"? If not, you could derive it from "hexagon"! I do indeed have 'hexagon' ( tumú ) - it's actually the highest n-gon with a word right...

I've been rereading the Animorphs books. Again. :eng: You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous f...

When you add a word for "cube", are you also going to add "tetrahedron", "octahedron", "dodecahedron", and "icosahedron"? What about "tesseract"? I absolutely should! I'm thinking of deriving 'cube' from some prior word for '(six-sided) di...

I'm going to go off on a limb and guess that haaka means "sky"? Technically haka (the a in the root HAK normally deletes before the case marker a#a , but it sticks around when s separates the two), but yes! In Kankonian, "skybox" is oshmulhozos , from oshmul (sky) and hozos (cub...

  Changes made to the -+ series.    I mention these a lot. Should probably talk about them. (My apologies for any inconsistencies - this developed very organically over the course of about six years from scrawlings on the wall of my college's math-and-stats hallway, and my note-taking has been patch...

If I'm understanding your question correctly, it sounds like what you're looking for might be allophones . Those are sounds that, for a particular language, are considered the same phoneme. They might, like Hawaiian [t] and [k], be freely interchangeable - or instead, like English [l] and [ɫ], they ...

Just wanted to say that I am absolutely keeping an eye on this language - love some Navajo inspiration and interesting aspectual shenanigans!

Fejçide sesqueda quia le fel suesa ben gusdogeut. happy[ADVZ] turn out[ACT.SBJV.PRS]3SG CNJ DEF.Nom.MSG cat.SG be[ACT.INDIC.IMPFT]3SG ADV tend[PFT.PASS.PTCP]MSG I hope that the cat was well-sat. Malur tzıûkutḳusú·tzursí! mal<u>r tzu<ıv-ŕkvr̀-tḳv>s-vŕ-tzu<ur>s-í cat<OBL> fluffy<3-all_ S-DL_S >- -ATT...

Komen k' î t' arevé d' la-z aprendre ? How did you come to learn them? Ramrarzaıllıàḳma ṭaẓaa·maḷa ṭìmata·raúl raḳaṭıul : Mırìzrımùllıı rıḳíla. ra<am-ŕ-1zvı>l-lı-à-ḳm-a ṭaẓa-v-ma<a.#a>ḷ ṭìmat-v-ra<aú>l raḳaṭ<ıu>l : mrı<ìz-ŕ>m-ùl-lı-ı rıḳ<í.#a>l sing<1.4 PL-PL.S -few. O >- PST-CONC-DSTR-V.A sea_urch...

Am ngananmũ, ĩ watë mamt’ë! Uy nunuy tëngum shun uy niiniik’um uyë lëyimzngit’un ĩ ñum uy nunuy un tëngum uy luyluy amt’ë waatë nganlëyimt’ë shun am p’an lawëwzngi’ũ. Good evening everyone! I am happy to be speaking to you in my language and also so happy to see all the different kinds of languages...

I love how the first ring ended up a bit fairy-tale-esque - there's a snake-man, people wanting to eat people, looking in windows to find oneself not there... I'm also curious how the town name changed so drastically - and it's quite neat how in Ring 2, the art collection turned first into a collect...

Click wrote: ↑11 Jun 2021 02:31 Apologies to all, I’ll try to post the results this weekend.

No worries! Hope you're feeling better.

Yeah, I think the split alignment makes things hard to understand. This is the basic intransitive clause where 'man' is the subject and 'war' is not an argument/complement? Ḳaılsìà ḷár kaúh. die<3>.FUT war.OBL man.PAT The man dies after the war. Right! In the inverse voice clause, 'war' becomes a s...

Aìḳìlàt (kaha) ḷuá. INV.die<A> (man.OBL) war.PAT The war was died for (by men). If the circumstantial construction derives from an inverse voice instead of a passive, should the agent still be an obligatory complement? Or do I misunderstand? Mm, syntax definitely isn't my forte, so I may be using t...