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I've made a million worthless threads on this site, including iirc another scratchpad. I worry sometimes that I'm clogging up the board! To combat this baseless anxiety, I will make one final thread. The definitive, ultimate, most coolest and comprehensive gosh diggity dang thread I will have ever made. I plan on posting my scratchings here so that I can look back on them in the future.
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The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.” ― St. Hildegard von Bingen
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Here is an oral phonology for a bi-modal language spoken in space.

/p t k/
/ʘ tʼ~ǃ kʼ ʔ/
/m n ŋ/
/s/
/l/

/i u/
/e o/
/a/

/◌ː/
/◌́/

The glottalised consonants cause an allophonic lowering of vowels. Depending on the use-case of the language, the orthography is either all caps or all lowercase except nouns.

<P T K> <p t k>
<P̲ T̲ K̲ X> <p̲ t̲ k̲ x>
<M N G> <m n ŋ>
<S> <s>
<L> <l>

<I U> <i u>
<E O> <e o>
<A> <a>

<◌̲> <◌̲>
<◌́> <◌́>

The fully spoken register of the language is written in all lowercase, with the exception of the first letter of a noun. The bi-modal variety, which is written to notate both spoken and signed information, is written in all caps with the spoken information written first and the signed second, with an interpunct in between.

[siːtʼam aŋ kó] means "Do you speak AG?" in the spoken register, and is written: <si̲t̲am Aŋ kó>.
Without the signed information, [ʔáːʔ aŋ kó ʔáːʔ] would convey the same sentence. It would be written <XÁ̲X AG KÓ XÁ̲X · ...>. The starting and ending morphemes can also be written with this symbol: <║>. Therefore, this sentence could also be rendered: <║AG KÓ║ · ...>
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The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.” ― St. Hildegard von Bingen
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As of recently, I've been interested in making a more classical fantasy setting for some languages. Here is a map of that setting!

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And here's a GIF of it spinning around!

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Making slow progress on another map of the planet. I was able to use the GIS G.Projector exactly one time to move the map around before it decided to completely wet the bed. I was able to get a new projection of the map focused on the north pole, so once I get a polished map ready, I'll post it here.
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Considering a vertical vowel system for Proto-Northmen. I don't know how vertical vowel systems work, but they sound pretty cool.
EDIT: Based on new information, I think that rather than put a vertical vowel system into Proto-Northmen, I will work one into a modern Northmanish language.
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A tentative phonemic inventory of Proto-Northmen. It has gone through many revisions so I don't expect this to last that long.

/t c k kʷ ʔ/
/s x xʷ h/
/m n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/
/j ɰ w/
/l/

/i iː u uː/
/e eː o oː/
/a aː/
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I revised it, but I think I'm happy with this one. I even did some phonotactics and fun stuff like that! Here it is.

/t c k kʷ ʔ/ <t c k kʷ ʔ>
/m n ɲ ŋ ŋʷ/ <m n ñ ŋ ŋʷ>
/s x xʷ h/ <s x xʷ h>
/j ɰ w/ <y ɯ w>

/i u/ <i u>
/e o/ <e o>
/a/ <a>

(s)CV(Q)
Q = ʔ, h, s, N
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I have worked on some grammar for Proto-Northmen, but I'm considering a rework right now. I don't have any clear plan for how it will be working, and so I'm very confused about how to move forward.
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I think I'm going to stop working on PN for a while and move to... another British Romlang! Yippeee
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I've made a lot of progress with Britto. Here is the verb amare, to love, conjugated in the indicative.

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The future is derived as it is in most other Romance languages, through the grammaticalization of the infinitive + abere. The conditional, on the other had, derives from the Latin pluperfect.
“Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook,
The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.” ― St. Hildegard von Bingen
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