Zompist Bboard Again

Keševan: ámnase 'to respect', derived from the noun amna 'respect, courtesy', originally ámona 'dread, awe'

next word: remind

Mine is more of a spelling reform than a completely new orthography. I'm basing my transliteration on Okrand's, only pretty much just changing the case-sensitive letters. Sticking to digraphs rather than diacritics. /p b t ɖ q ʔ/ <p b t d q '> /tɬ tʃ dʒ/ <tlh ch j> /v ʂ x ɣ qχ/ <v sh kh gh qh> /l r/...

Any violations of universals can always be retroactively justified with an appeal to the language's literal alienness. Qapla'! Except for no velar, rover and OVS word order, klingon is not that strange, though. Language that outright bans imperfectives is outright strange. Unearthliness increases w...

Any violations of universals can always be retroactively justified with an appeal to the language's literal alienness.

Qapla'!

Not mine, but David J. Peterson has remarked that if he's working on a language where, for whatever reason, he has decided the orthographic representation of long vowels will be a doubled vowel letter, then that language can never have long /e/ and long /o/ - he always gets rid of them by dipthongi...

What languages use a tripartite ditransitive alignment, i.e. an alignment in which direct objects of monotransitive verbs, recipients of ditransitives, and themes of ditransitives all are marked in separate ways? I remember reading somewhere that it's very rare--rarer, I'd imagine anyways, than trip...