Zompist Bboard Again

. I do not really know even where to start to rework its morphology, and to be honest, I like its complexity, even though it is only realistic that it would be reanalyzed in later forms. Complexity can be resilient in some cases (I understand Welsh to be extremely fond of it); Spanish comes to mind...

Do you have complicated, messy naturalistic etymologies for any of this? I love it when an inflection or a lemma has a story to tell if we only know where to look.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Dec 25, 2020 5:38 pm Qãte íźąde árrəri lázre herróri go!
/ˈqãtʰe ˈʔiʑãde ˈʔarːəɾi ˈlazɾe herˈroɾi ɡo/
happy-S.F winter-DEF.S.F holiday-3SF 2PM=DAT wish.IPFV-SUBJ.1S-OBJ.3SF EGO
Merry Christmas! (lit. I wish you a happy winter holiday!)

爾往人
Tomyori to!
[t̪o̞ᵝ.mᶣi̯ó̞ˑ.ɽɪ̀ t̪ó̞ᵝ]
You, too!

I haven't quite gotten my thoughts and notes into a form tidy enough to move on, but, given some discoveries I've made since the start, I've updated the initial post (all the original text is still there, simply some of it with strikethrough), and included a document for what I think might be more p...

Perhaps, but I was going on what I could see.

Also Happy Christmas.

Years ago, I read somewhere that the Ukrainian folk song the tune is based on is so old that some believe it to be of prehistoric origin. That is very cool! I would have loved to post this over in the "What are you reading, watching, and listening to"-thread, but unfortunately, I couldn't...

Unoa erahumen! Welcome! (lit. we receive you) Bal ngen sali nii nduy ndil nii daw! Nisiwe phikhel tlii tlaquf tii tlii: /bal ᵑɡən ˈsali niː ⁿduj ⁿdil niː daw ‖ niˈsiwə ˈpʰikʰəl t͡ɬiː ˈt͡ɬaʔuf tiː t͡ɬiː 1s POSS hope COP CMPZ 2s COP good! 2s=have pickle IND.PL accompany tea IND.PL I hope you are well...

The phonology isn't terribly interesting, but that's ok. The main divergences from the IPA are /b d g/ which are [β ð ɣ], except when immediately before a voiceless stop, in which case they devoice to [ɸ θ x]. The [ɸ] produced by this merges with original /f/ [ɸ]. I do find myself rather unsure of ...

Most modern readers wouldn't catch this, but on the subject you're actually looking for — Ann Radcliffe likes to put fashionable things from her own time, like landscape-viewing and drinking coffee, into Continental Europe in the centuries that preceded here (one scene from Mysteries of Udolpho sho...

Let us talk of verbs, those very wonderful things. I love a complex verbal paradigm, this being another reason I wanted a Japonic language. I am especially fond of the Classical Japanese shimo nidan conjugation, which has but one surviving member in the modern language, 得る「うる」 uru , (classically a m...

Throwing out some not-very-well-informed ideas: * For initial voiced consonants, how about apocope of initial vowels after intervocalic voicing, of the sort *apa > *aba > ba ? That could be combined with your work with the pitch-accent system to limit how much territory it covers. Given I've read m...

現往 新的人者 有艿 Myori arâshetótori ari. [mᶣi̯o̞ᵝ.ɽɪ̀ ɐ̞.ɾ̪ɐ̞́͜ɐ̞̀(.)ɕ(ɘ̥).t̪ó̞ˑᵝ.t̪ò̞ᵝ.ɽɪ̀ ɐ̞.ɽɪ̀] "I'm a new person." (And this is still very much a work in progress.) Edit: I seem not to understand BBCode very well. C'iz J̌əpãdə láhęmə teyẽri nə? /tsʼiz dʐəˈpʰãdə ˈlahɛ̃mə tʰeˈjɛ̃ɾi nə/ DIST....

To begin, some contextual details, or at least as many as I feel as I can provide in something part of a rapidly evolving work of fiction: the language I've described so far had, to the knowledge of the characters of the narrative present of the story, no consistent internal name, being initially ca...

Done . I must derive a word to thank you for this. I know — 其方美的有芭 ( Segáta Mishâri - literally "you are a marvel"). This is good to know (and also explains why some Old Japanese verbs do have an imperative in -ye, but others use this -yo/-ro particle. Does the same process also, to your ...

Unoa erahumen! Welcome! (lit. we receive you) Bal ngen sali nii nduy ndil nii daw! Nisiwe phikhel tlii tlaquf tii tlii: /bal ᵑɡən ˈsali niː ⁿduj ⁿdil niː daw ‖ niˈsiwə ˈpʰikʰəl t͡ɬiː ˈt͡ɬaʔuf tiː t͡ɬiː 1s POSS hope COP CMPZ 2s COP good! 2s=have pickle IND.PL accompany tea IND.PL I hope you are well...

Some academics have used the term "Flintstoning" to refer to the projection of modern assumptions onto past populations. The eponymous example is the Flintstones, where people living thousands or tens of thousands of years in the past live in nuclear-family dwellings with lawnmowers and g...

Would you like some data from the other end? I have a PDF of Alexander Francis-Ratte's dissertation reconstructing a common ancestor of Korean and Japonic. I found it in a pile of resources labelled "Altaic", but it has actual academic standards rather than posturing and explaining away i...

Being very used to hilly terrain, I think I would (personally, apparently unusually) be a little wordier, and say, "mostly flattish, but with a hill rising into the distance".

I love, love, LOVE heavily-researched a posteriori conlangs that are well-integrated into a real world context! I feel rather bad that this begins with a note that it's for a world not our own now. The heavy research is a labour of love, however, so it would, I suppose, be a language that could pla...