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alphabet, alfabet letter, character, sign, symbol, khaafu Bakizinuya fad'amii aana khaafutam alfabetit ingalisit taguyeyatha ⟨p⟩ ay ⟨v⟩. use-AGT.3.S.INAN-HAB-PAT.3.P.INAN language-POSS.1.P-ERG all letter-GEN-P alphabet-GEN English-GEN COP-AGT.3.P.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN-NEG ⟨p⟩ or ⟨v⟩. Fad'ami uses ...

• Japan, jafan
• very, strongly, deeply, soole

Nawiziye fad'anaa fad'a jafanit wiib'aja soole.
appear-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES language-POSS.2.S-ERG language Japan-GEN mutate-ADJ.PAT very
Your language looks like a deeply mutated Japonic language.

之ろ良き辞を名する゙辞縄有り゙ 「いろ𛀁ぅきつゐ𛀁をなする゙きつゐ𛀁にょふあり゙」 Ilo yeoki tiyônasuru tienyô ari. [í.ˑɫ̪ʷò̞ᵝ jǿ̞ᵝˑc͡çì t̪ʰí.jò̞ᵝː.n̪ɐ̞́ˑ.s̪ʉ̀ᵝ.ɾ̪ʉ̀ᵝ t̪ʰi̯é̞ːˑ.ɲò̞ᵝː ɐ̞́ˑ.ɾ̪ʲì] proximal.LOCATIVE good.PREDICATIVE word.ACCUSATIVE.make.ADNOMINAL word.rope(=thread) copula.PREDICATIVE "This is a good word-making thread.&q...

Are there any natlangs that, like my new conlang fad'ami , have a complete lack of adpositions, expressing equivalent ideas with applicatives, relational nouns, genitive case, and relative clauses? Common motifs in fad'ami include using an applicative on a verb with a relational noun belonging to a ...

I think in AusEng present "got" is fairly rare and when it occurs it behaves exactly the same as "have got". What happens with the sequence of tenses, as in standard 'I said I'd got time to spare'? Does that get replaced by 'I said I had time to spare'? Yeah, the former sounds a...

collect (trans.), qarre go (intr.), aagi words (coll.), ibba post, message, kab'a Aagiyoma yoxa ut qarrebimaya ibba kab'am chiilaa. go-ALL-AGT.1.S-PST.IPFV back and collect-ABL-AGT.1.S-PST.IPFV-PAT.3.P.INAN words post-P old-P I have been going back and collecting words from previous posts.

equals, copula, ta language variety, fad'a to bore, qham bad, yoh to mean, wanni just, merely, sun new, gani sky, siima give, yaalu things (coll.), d'at myriad, yiseka nurture, wohade humankind, gaare have, own, possess, enna good, wot return, eeta die, t'aw surprise (trans.), coxi need (trans.), m...

This man seems quite mad… I just saw the following headline: Sunak vows to bring back national service for school leavers Is he trying to sabotage the miniscule chance he has of re-election? I struggle to explain his actions in any other coherent way… Is Sunak insane? It does seem quite likely, doe...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat May 25, 2024 6:49 pm This man seems quite mad… I just saw the following headline:

Sunak vows to bring back national service for school leavers

Is he trying to sabotage the miniscule chance he has of re-election? I struggle to explain his actions in any other coherent way…

Is Sunak insane?

IMD "got" and "gotten" have slightly different meanings: "got" merely implies possesion, "gotten" emphasizes acquisition. E.g. "I've got the money" = I have it, it's available "I've gotten the money" = I've acquired it, recently enough tha...

In my idiolect for certain verbs I have a strong tendency to use the preterite plus - en to form new past participles which contrast with the StdE ones in subtle ways (e.g. "I've eaten my sandwich" is distinct from "I've aten my sandwich"; the latter intuitively feels more like a...

I have gotten FAT32 support (mostly) working in zeptoscript -- and I only say "mostly" because I have not tested files larger than one cluster yet. It took far less to get to this point in zeptoscript than I did in zeptoforth. Of course, that is largely because this was largely a translati...

• come up with, think up, yoqhe
• name, joot'a

Yoqhedim joot'a fad'azaa, 'fad'ami'.
come.up.with-DAT-AGT.1.S name language-PROX.INAN | language.POSS.1.P
I have come up with a name for this language, 'fad'ami'*.

* literally, "our (exclusive) language"

Dis mata bo ki-boh yu af ina Windows :). That depends on what keyboard you've installed in Windows :). ask, ikha add, install, t'ommi department, k'ulle technology, yuuti information, laga board, waha computer, machine, system, box, yeera Ikhadimrowitha k'ullema yuutit lagat ha t'ommidiro wahazun k...

• mark (trans.), thoone
• design (trans.), q'iika
• small, little, c'enna

Q'iikadim zo ha magiziyeyatha thoonedam c'ennalaa.
design-DAT-AGT.1.S-NEG PROX.S.INAN COMP need-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES-PAT.3.P.INAN-NEG mark-ACTION-P little-P
I designed it so it would not need diacritics.

Taye zon /ɣawaːzijɛmam fizaː saχat loːxidzat/. COP-PRES DIST.S.INAN /ɣawaːzijɛmam fizaː saχat loːxidzat/ That is /ɣawaːzijɛmam fizaː saχat loːxidzat/. Ligimetha hanna hat istefaataye ut kitajafaataye. know-AGT.1.S-PRES-NEG way COMP-GEN pretty-COMPARE-RES-PASS-PRES and type-ADJ.PAT-COMPARE-RES-PASS-...

In the case of English, we see in everyday English a "subjective accusative" in the place of the "subjective genitive" (e.g. "If it weren't for me setting up the firewall this Windows box'd be full of worms by now.") At the very least, there's also the attraction of th...

We also see the subjective accusative in things like " me and my friends rode around town in my pickup truck removing stop signs". I think that's just an example of the nominative being triggered by an adjacent verb, with fallback to the unmarked accusative when separated. Which only goes...

We also see the subjective accusative in things like "me and my friends rode around town in my pickup truck removing stop signs".

From what can a nominative case suffix or marker develop? Esp. if there were no nominative markers so far and there's few cases to begin with. Maybe a demonstrative or an intensifier? Japanese ga (currently used as a nominative/subject marker, although there's a distinct topic marker wa ) seems to ...