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A QUICK HISTORY AND PREHISTORY OF CONLANGING AND RELATED PHENOMENA ( This post was written as a response to the original post of the thread "Book idea: early history of conlanging" on the Almea forum of this website.) http://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=276 I am a scholar of th...

So I finished translating all the texts into the Ancient Africa Conlang. Now I'm up to Text D, Page I for translating them all into the Okrand Atlantean Conlang. I haven't put it all on the website yet, though. I've decided to type up all the Atlantean, then all the Ancient Africa Conlang. I've thou...

I don’t think that’s preposterous at all — I think it’s very, very normal. The "preposterous" part is supposed to be an alliterative joke. A question: how is it possible to only have one noun class? The whole point of noun classes is to have more than one of them! (Or at least that’s the ...

Here's Pages B and C from Text D. In case there's any new readers, here's the link to where I'm putting all this online. I haven't added the grammar yet for Ancient Africa Conlang, though, that's only here. New Texts in Okrand Atlantean with an Ancient African Conlang: Medieval West Africa Texts htt...

Normal Bantu verb morphology seems to be: subject-tense-object-VERB.ROOT For some reason, for my Ancient Africa Conlang, I chose: subject-tense-VERB.ROOT-object-indirect.object I think this defies language universals. I forget why I did it, too, and can't find notes on it. Maybe I couldn't find wher...

Here's two sample interlinear glossed texts for both conlangs. I'm doing Text D right now, so decided to interlinear gloss the first Page of it, Page A. ... ... Text D, Page A. Note 2042. Sigi game. Variant explanations exist for this game. The one described in this text seems to be the modern game ...

Update on work on Okrand Atlantean and my Ancient Africa Conlang translations: I have finished draft translations of everything now. I asked Zompist and he thought I should only post my translations on one thread. So I'll be posting them on this one. Except this final post. Here's the other thread, ...

Update on work on Okrand Atlantean and my Ancient Africa Conlang translations: I have finished draft translations of everything now. I asked Zompist and he thought I should only post my translations on one thread. So I'll be posting them on this one. Except this final post. Here's the other thread, ...

Unless I’m missing something, I’m pretty sure his last post didn’t have any glosses either. AND he has the audacity to make this request: One thing that the Zompist conlangs have over conlangs from famous books, movies, and tv is that they're more often well-presented in terms of grammars, dictiona...

Thanks! I’m also working on a future Spanish conlang that’s spoken in Cuba. Post about it here if you can. You should make websites for your conlangs, if you haven't already. I don't remember. You know what would be cool? Future versions of languages like English or Spanish that develop huge tone s...

Sorry that I don't have much time to read replies. Oh, such charmers we have here! I read the replies from Wed Jul 08, 2020. I hope I can get to the recommendations, whereever they are. This one is not fair: bradrn Wed Jul 08, 2020 I already explained that people recommended I make two separate thre...

I made a website for this summer's project with Okrand Atlantean by the maker of Klingon and my Ancient Africa Conlang. New Texts in Okrand Atlantean with an Ancient African Conlang: Medieval West Africa Texts https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2020/07/new-texts-in-okrand-atlantean-with.html?view=flip...

I made a website for this summer's project with Okrand Atlantean by the maker of Klingon and my Ancient Africa Conlang. New Texts in Okrand Atlantean with an Ancient African Conlang: Medieval West Africa Texts https://naviklingon.blogspot.com/2020/07/new-texts-in-okrand-atlantean-with.html?view=flip...

Texts A B C from The Epic of Son-Jara in Okrand Atlantean and Ancient Africa Conlang ... I made a website for this summer's project with Okrand Atlantean by the maker of Klingon and my Ancient Africa Conlang. New Texts in Okrand Atlantean with an Ancient African Conlang: Medieval West Africa Texts h...

Texts A B C from The Epic of Son-Jara in Okrand Atlantean and Ancient Africa Conlang ... I made a website for this summer's project with Okrand Atlantean by the maker of Klingon and my Ancient Africa Conlang. New Texts in Okrand Atlantean with an Ancient African Conlang: Medieval West Africa Texts h...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Mon Jul 06, 2020 1:17 pm As others have said here, there's nothing wrong with making Middle-earth fanlangs. As Elemtilas has observed, I once made one myself ...

Is there some place we can find these complete online? I'm very interested in them.

If you gloss this, Bob, there might be something to comment on. I hope to photograph all my notes and get them online in a week or so. But they're only partial interlinear glosses and partial gloss vocabularies with etymology notes. I might gloss some of it more for show but it's a lot to gloss. I'...

Frequentive COM the:Female LA home HOMEN Subjunctive TE. How do you get "come back home" from this? It's idiomatic. The Frequentive refers to actions that happen on a regular basis and then the Subjunctive here expresses a suggestion. Subjunctive TE "Imperative" seems a better f...

The "happen" verb and how it's so different to indicate grammatical gender might be a Mayan Hieroglyphic idiomatic thing and a grammatical thing like in Indigenous New World (Amerind, Native American) languages. That sounds pretty interesting — I hadn’t heard of a ‘happen’ verb being used...

Basic Okrand Atlantean language pantheon, in order of days of the week: SUNDAY Aktirak: Hammerhead Shark, like Ancient Egyptian Ra. MONDAY Beyloh: Manta Ray, like Ancient Egyptian Osiris. TUESDAY Ketak: Flying Fish, like Ancient Egyptian Horus. WEDNESDAY Martag: Crab, like Ancient Egyptian Thoth, Ge...