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Nona girmidoi hou naroni nuruneurmu I'd be interested in reading those stories Lonmai Luna is bilaifota amol mal modo wes nok, pedi mis bilaifota mal modo luhom hum /is bilaifo̞tä ämo̞l mäl mo̞do̞ we̞s no̞k pe̞di mis bilaifo̞tä mäl mo̞do̞ luho̞m hum/ exist society be.great REL NEG use wheel but NEG...

Now it's Janko time! Numerals The numeral system in Classical Sitr was decimal, with 20 and 30 being irregular, and there's an archaic irregular form for 50 alongside with the regular form, with tens formed suffix -dal; also, Classical Sitr uses a system based on 100,000 and 10,000,000 when it comes...

catfish = bottom-swim(I made an exocentric word)

Next: whale

Pedant wrote: ↑Wed Aug 28, 2019 12:12 pm

k1234567890y wrote: ↑Mon Jul 15, 2019 4:37 am

Pedant wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 8:15 pm

Hey, no worries!

So, k1234567890y, what do you yourself think?

uncertain if I will use your version >< but nicely done

So...would it be okay if I use the alphabet for my own work?

sure (: just use it yourself

TomHChappell wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2019 6:40 pm Isn’t it true in the Red Chinese military individuals have no rank? Rank attaches to their assignment rather than to the individual themself?

it once was true, but it caused practical issues like the chaos in commanding, so they finally reintroduced military ranks.

An isolating language where there are no adpositions, and there are no inflectional affixes and productive derivational affixes either, all meanings of adpositions are conveyed by the use of verbs and nouns(and the language has serial verb construction), and most conjunctions are from content words(...

I decide to introduce Serial Verb Construction(which is an extension of the use of "manner" I have previously described) into Classical Sitr as a part of the syntax. Serial Verb Construction Classical Sitr has Serial Verb Construction, in which two or more verbs or verb phrases are strung ...

1. create non-derived words(roots) and derivational affixes 2. see how natlangs derive words 3. calque compound words and derived words from natlangs, you can calque from Latin, Greek, German, Dutch, Chinese, etc. Also you can take a look at this: https://linguifex.com/wiki/Guide:Derivations For a l...

Any possible medial cluster restriction? not sure yet...but I guess at least plosives must be both voiced or both voiceless. This is optional, but probably you may instead generalize definite suffix into a noun marker instead of dropping it. It occurs in some Oceanic languages. this might have happ...

Pedant wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 8:15 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 7:17 pm That does make a lot more sense now — thanks!

Hey, no worries!

So, k1234567890y, what do you yourself think?

uncertain if I will use your version >< but nicely done

On the other hand, if you really do like the current system, it can be justified by it was deliberately invented as a script for Old Sitr. There are precedents: Hangul (which is the natlang script most similar to this one) was invented by King Sejong, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics were created by a...

On the other hand, if you really do like the current system, it can be justified by it was deliberately invented as a script for Old Sitr. There are precedents: Hangul (which is the natlang script most similar to this one) was invented by King Sejong, Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics were created by a...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2019 11:48 pm That being said, I do think the rigid left/right/line above/hook below alternation in the current Sitr script is unnaturalistic.

so what should I do?

Nicely done! The one thing I might recommend to you is possibly adjusting the script a little bit so that the glyphs don’t resemble one another as much. I tried writing out a few sentences with it, and it was a little monotonous after a while--not to mention that for anyone with any kind of dyslexi...

Looking good! A minor thing: people don't normally describe it as split ergativity when a language has erg/abs case-marking but subject (nominative) agreement. thanks >< as for the wording, I used the name split ergativity as I saw Wikipedia listing it as so, but thanks for reminding. Why do you ca...

Classical Sitr , also Old Sitr , is a language of the Sitr language family, which is a minor language family consisting few members. Classical Sitr has an SOV word order, it is mainly dependent-marking and shows split ergativity where an ergative alignment is used on nouns and nominative alignment ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wari’_language

kinda wanna do a language with a similar vowel system...

well I guess take a look at the Wikipedia's article for Biblical Hebrew, modern Hebrew Grammar and Arabic grammar, including introductions to the broken plural in Arabic.

btw, I recently have also started a semitic-like language with triliteral roots.

well even Japanese, which is cited by some as a language without swear words, does seem to actually have some words that can be seen as swear words, at least under certain contexts: https://www.rypeapp.com/blog/japanese-swear-words/ https://soranews24.com/2016/09/22/w-t-f-japan-top-5-most-offensive-...

1. if there are certain phonological conditions that could make the originally merged phonemes split again
2. if they borrow words from dialects or the learned variant where the phonemes are still distinct, but borrowing is not a phonological process