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Taràkıá muhkuẓârazíma Uraḳsusı mukúlıuṭ! [təˈrɑkja mɯ̽çkɯ̽ˈt͡ʃarɑʒim ˈvrɜŋzɯ̽zɪ mɯ̽ˈkuɮjɯ̽ʔ] support<1.3>-dur-v2a learn<3.3>-try.to-nom.pat-inch-va French<pat> spider<that-agt> I support that spider's work towards learning French! Ḷí·s, Xmuàxı ǐtlırıràrrǎzımr làlìthıḷ. Je spide, tu spides, nous spi...

Torch sent to Lorik! That was good fun.

Torch received! Should get everything done this weekend, fingers crossed.

Oho I'm absolutely in! Probably with Alál.

@Kiwikami: Your last update was in November of 2021. I want to see more shiny amazingness in Alál grammar! https://c.tenor.com/nzysiglc-MMAAAAC/summoned-batman.gif ...I really do just pop in twice a year to dump grammar on y'all and then vanish for months on end, don't I? [:D] Whoops. In my defense...

"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.”...

  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...

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...

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...

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."

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...

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...

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?

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.

  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-...

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 ...

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 ...

Click wrote: ↑02 Sep 2021 00:24 Count me in! This time I’m going with Tlahuányeuc.

I don't want to pressure (life happens), but any news?

~ ~ ~ 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 ...

Torch sent to Jackk and Click!

This took a long while, but it was a fun one.