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DesEsseintes wrote: 09 Dec 2022 15:12 I’m having fun conlanging for the first time in years so that’s an achievement!

Rediscovering my conlang Chhuowòta.
Hurray! Hurray!

Now all you need is joining a relay so we can once again Enjoy Chhuowòta.
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loglorn wrote: 10 Dec 2022 01:02
DesEsseintes wrote: 09 Dec 2022 15:12 I’m having fun conlanging for the first time in years so that’s an achievement!

Rediscovering my conlang Chhuowòta.
Hurray! Hurray!
[+1]
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shimobaatar wrote: 10 Dec 2022 01:23
loglorn wrote: 10 Dec 2022 01:02
DesEsseintes wrote: 09 Dec 2022 15:12 I’m having fun conlanging for the first time in years so that’s an achievement!

Rediscovering my conlang Chhuowòta.
Hurray! Hurray!
[+1]
Luògùluon and Shímóbàtar are phonotactically sound Chhuowòta words.
Spoiler:
…while Chhuowòta isn’t [xD]
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On Wednesday of last week, I did J's and K's for Kankonian, and got over forty new words. A sampling:

oisimat: Jabuti cherry, savannah cherry, red pitanga (Eugenia calycina) (borrowing from Povoian)
borobo: pitanga, Suriname cherry, Brazilian cherry (Eugenia uniflora)
pomakamaka: jabuti, red-footed tortoise (exotic borrowing)
yetzagim hel kmilides em: Jackson's chamelon (lit. "chameleon with three horns")
abata: louver
helabata: jalousie window, louvered window (hel, prefix for "with" + abata)
oprazma: japanning
ebtuza: jocote, red mombin, purple mombin (Spondias purpura) (borrowing from a language of the Binules)
kyalendetz: johnsomervilleite
mingmoyan: JOMO (joy of missing out) (ming, free as in "drug-free" + moyan, joy)
tumanga: Joro spider (exotic borrowing)
khortzegh: jhama brick
blutozhi: kadamba, laran, burflower-tree, Leichhardt pine
sherspania: Kaiser-i-Hind (Teinopalpus imperialis)
akpak: karate chop
s*itzkhazid: keraunograph (figure impressed by lightning) (s*itz, lightning + khazid, mark)
phpak: kerplunk
somyou: kettle corn
endozhoka: to wear a keytar (keyboard) (en-, prefix for wearing + dozhoka, keyboard)
endozhokar: keytar (keyboard) (endozhoka + -ar, suffix indicating a way)
enzhogudam: to wear a keytar (synthesizer) (en- + zhogudam, synthesizer)
enzhogudamar: keytar (synthesizer) (enzhogudam + -ar)
khnapothk: kinnikinnick
potash X: to kiss X's feet (literally or figuratively)
shluban: koozie
yatalmi: kutcha, kuccha
bethelpa: Karen haircut
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Squirrels chase koi . . . chase squirrels

My Kankonian-English dictionary: 86,336 words and counting

31,416: The number of the conlanging beast!
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I revised sound changes for STK and worked on the existing PSTK etyma.
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CC = Common Caber
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CT = Classical Ĝare n Tim Ar
Kg = Kgáweq'
PB = Proto-Beheic
PO = Proto-O
PTa = Proto-Taltic
STK = Sisỏk Tlar Kyanà
Tm = Təmattwəspwaypksma
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I reviewed my IPA...
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I came up with personal endings I actually don’t dislike for stative verbs in Chhuowòta! Here are two sample conjugation from the root √tłii - to stand:

tłiáwa - to stand/be stood somewhere

tłiáwan
tłiùliy
tłiùyi
tłiáppiin
tłiùshiy
tłiáwu


tłiìnáwa - to be up, to have stood up

tłiìnáwan
tłiìnáuliy
tłiénai
tłiìnáppiin
tłiìnáushiy
tłiénau
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Woo! Double post.

Changed the orthography of Chhuowòta.

Old: /i ɯ u/ i u uu
New: /i ɯ u/ ii i u

However, there are two exceptions:

1. /i/ is spelt i after the palatals ch chh j sh y
2. /i/ is spelt iy word-finally, irrespective of the preceding consonant with the exception of word-final /ji/ which is spelt yi to avoid yiy.
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DesEsseintes wrote: 10 Dec 2022 08:34 Luògùluon and Shímóbàtar are phonotactically sound Chhuowòta words.
Spoiler:
…while Chhuowòta isn’t [xD]
Are the acute and grave accents tone markers? Also, I absolutely know the feeling of coming up with a name you like for a conlang, reworking parts of the language itself, and then later realizing that the name no longer really "fits" the latest version (assuming that's why "Chhuowòta" is not a phonotactically valid word in Chhuowòta?).
DesEsseintes wrote: 12 Dec 2022 18:14 I came up with personal endings I actually don’t dislike for stative verbs in Chhuowòta! Here are two sample conjugation from the root √tłii - to stand:
Spoiler:
tłiáwa - to stand/be stood somewhere

tłiáwan
tłiùliy
tłiùyi
tłiáppiin
tłiùshiy
tłiáwu


tłiìnáwa - to be up, to have stood up

tłiìnáwan
tłiìnáuliy
tłiénai
tłiìnáppiin
tłiìnáushiy
tłiénau
Hooray!
DesEsseintes wrote: 13 Dec 2022 18:18 Woo! Double post.

Changed the orthography of Chhuowòta.

Old: /i ɯ u/ i u uu
New: /i ɯ u/ ii i u

However, there are two exceptions:

1. /i/ is spelt i after the palatals ch chh j sh y
2. /i/ is spelt iy word-finally, irrespective of the preceding consonant with the exception of word-final /ji/ which is spelt yi to avoid yiy.
I'm honestly a bit surprised to see <i> rather than <ı>! [:P] Kidding aside, do /i/ and /ɯ/ contrast after palatals, or are <chi chhi ji shi yi> unambiguous? Also, if Chhuowòta allows for [ii]~[iː], would that be differentiated orthographically from a short or single /i/ <ii>?
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For Yélian, I created a couple of stative verbs (consisting of a classifier and the copula verb balia or its stative form -ba) that serve as colloquial synonyms for some words of the core vocabulary. I realized that for how easy it is to form verbs like that, too few lexicalized terms existed. The new words enclude (old word in brackets):

malba "to stand", from mal "upright" (synonym nayta)
vèliba "to exist", from vèli "real" (synonym manduia)
firasba "to blossom", from firas "like a flower" (synonym flesa)
tserba "to listen", from tser "attentive" (synonym cariya)
pasba "to wear (clothing), from pas "on top" (synonym perga)
anasba "to be thankful", from anas "thanks" (synonym anasea)
tælapba "to sweat", from tælap "wet" (synonym plifa)
taruba "to have pain", from taru "woe" (synonym vulra)
lamba "to relax", from lam "calm" (synonym mora)
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shimobaatar wrote: 14 Dec 2022 17:38
DesEsseintes wrote: 10 Dec 2022 08:34 Luògùluon and Shímóbàtar are phonotactically sound Chhuowòta words.
Spoiler:
…while Chhuowòta isn’t [xD]
Are the acute and grave accents tone markers?
Yes, exactly.
(assuming that's why "Chhuowòta" is not a phonotactically valid word in Chhuowòta?).
That is indeed the reason!
DesEsseintes wrote: 13 Dec 2022 18:18 Woo! Double post.

Changed the orthography of Chhuowòta.

Old: /i ɯ u/ i u uu
New: /i ɯ u/ ii i u

However, there are two exceptions:

1. /i/ is spelt i after the palatals ch chh j sh y
2. /i/ is spelt iy word-finally, irrespective of the preceding consonant with the exception of word-final /ji/ which is spelt yi to avoid yiy.
I'm honestly a bit surprised to see <i> rather than <ı>! [:P] Kidding aside, do /i/ and /ɯ/ contrast after palatals, or are <chi chhi ji shi yi> unambiguous? Also, if Chhuowòta allows for [ii]~[iː], would that be differentiated orthographically from a short or single /i/ <ii>?
Palatals can only be followed by the vowel sounds /i y/ so the orthography wouldn’t be ambiguous.

As for i, I’m using it a lot more these days (when I conlang at all). It depends on the aesthetic I’m aiming for.
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I started writing grammar for my conlang Asva (or Aʂvə).

It already has 5 pages.
I'm also learning Latex.
My meta-thread: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5760
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Chhuowòta vowel gradation is intensifying; Some roots now seem to have up to six different allomorphs. For instance, the root √si has the following grades:

ság




sig


And for √rhiitts we get:

rhiátts
rhàitts
rhiétts
rhiètts
rhìitts
rhiitts


Other roots have somewhat less variation, for instance √tłiiw:

tłiáw
tłiù
tłiú
tłiiw ~ tłiib


The accents mark high and low tone.
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Came up with a spelling rule for a conlang aesthetic I’ve been playing with. Said as-yet-unnamed lang has the high vowels /i ɯ u/ i į u and permits vowel sequences of some complexity with few restrictions. There is therefore nothing stopping sequences such as /ɯi iɯ/ from occurring so I came up with a fun orthographic twist that I’m dedicating to CBB member Jackk of Boralic fame.

The rule is: /ɯ/ is spelt į except when it occurs before or after i in which case it’s written ų.

That was a long post about a very minor achievement.
Edit: Also now thinking of romanising /t k/ as d g as voicing contrasts in stops are not a thing in this lang.

Meaningless aesthetic sample:

a’vįeme arųivi ahþįrįeme gįvvįaidshi isdueni agįhsa aðaį’si agsshianii’mi įgssuįrįįavaþþa

I should probably think of an excuse to use circumflexes or something…
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I came up with this: A possible first sentence of an Úrageardian creation myth.
The first half of the Old English version popped into my head first, don't blame me.

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Ǽr gíet wearð þá eall þe wæs and gíet weorðan sceall, þá wæs mycel emetignysse on þæs middangeardes stede.

Modern English
Before even anything happened that was and shall be yet, there was great emptiness instead of the world.
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Made some sentences in Láwîng Dua:

Ao têetsǐn táwian rík.
I want to become rich.

Ao têetsǐn gì ùttáwian rík.
I want him to become rich.

Ao bpràwaan naan àwók.
I can swim.

Ao àtdtian à táfên inlá jiudtâat.
I have to defend the city.

Inl’àwánʉʉn pai nung à phə̌ən-rát - pai à pian dtêm gì têetsǐn.
The future isn’t going to wait for you; it will come when it wants.
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I decided that Khøss (earlier Khøşş) /s/ and /ʃ/ will be written identically when short <s> but differently when geminated, /s:/ <zs> and /ʃ:/ <ss>.
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I met a new conlanger on Facebook who wants me to participate on some Discord channel (if “channel” is the right word!)
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eldin raigmore wrote: 15 Jan 2023 00:26 I met a new conlanger on Facebook who wants me to participate on some Discord channel (if “channel” is the right word!)
There are servers and the servers have channels. But also we already have a CBB discord server, I'm curious which server is it that theyre inviting you to.
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I wrote about 5 pages of my Ptila grammar. It now has 18 (3 of them being front pages and lists of contents).
Among other things, I wrote a section about epistemic auxiliaries. They are more or less like those of Tibetan, i.e. obligatorily marked.
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