Zompist Bboard Again

Travis, I have to ask, what on earth is zeptoforth(!) ?

So, I have a language with Semitic-style nonconcatenative morphology. As far as I can tell, there isn't a standard way to apply the Leipzig glossing conventions to pervasively nonconcatenative languages like the Afroasiatic languages. This is the system I have come up with for my language, and I'm w...

cedh wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:23 pm

• "Then the north wind blows as hard as he could, but in vain, as the poor sod wraps himself up in the robe just as hard."

I am entirely intrigued: which conlang is this?

Putting it into a global context: Is there any tectonics behind it? I couldn't make out any evidence for continental drift, but perhaps that a Terran bias. There are. As it happens, I started out with a supercontinent and then modelled the tectonics for about 180 million years. The gif below should...

The Arrhosic languages form a macrofamily of languages spoken across much of northern Esseila and north-west Ixqipo. Their common ancestor, Proto-Arrhosic, is reconstructed as having been spoken in the subarctic steppe of Esseila approximately 14 millennia before present. Proto-Arrhosic is particul...

When writing about languages which are intratextually no longer spoken, I use the present tense to describe the proto-language and its modern descendants and the past to describe its speakers, much like Zompist. So, for example: The Arrhosic languages form a macrofamily of languages spoken across mu...

The landmass (called Ixqipo /iʃˈkʷipɔ/) is about 38,393,000 km² - so bigger than Africa but smaller than Asia. Scale-wise, the highest points are in the central massif, at about 6000m above sea level perhaps. Putting it into a global context: https://adeia.neocities.org/images/Adeia%20(winkel%20trip...

This is much like how kw later became p in Gallic/Welsh, but gw did not merge with the already extant b. Contentious! The existence of * gw in Proto-Brythonic is far from assured. Those who favour the Insular Celtic hypothesis (i.e. that the Brythonic and Goidelic languages form a branch on the Cel...

I made a map.



(The full-sized version is pretty large.)

Depends on the "feel" I want the country in question to have. I refer to the subdivisions of the Chadati commonwealth as "satrapies", because I want it to have a bit of a Persian feel. The divisions of the Tagorese sphere I label as "prefectures". So, it depends really...

OK, so having decided to run with akam chinjir's idea, I'm going to try to build this up step by step from first principles. Where possible, I have tried to avoid specific terminology (such as ergative, absolutive etc) where this might convey implications that are not necessarily the case. Basic pri...

Thanks for all the replies guys! I agree also with Ser, this looks more like a NOM/ACC pattern in which there are two cases available for S=A subjects. With just these examples you could relabel ERG as NOM, ABS as DAT, and OBL as ACC, and I think it'd all go through (and correspond to your semantic ...

So, since I was last active on here I've basically been rebuilding my conworld from the ground up (quite literally: I spent the best part of a month dicking around with GPlates simulating a new tectonic history for the entire planet). I've now got to the point that I'm working languages again: in th...

Actually, while I’m at it, a few pages later you give give the etymology of Irish focal as “name”. It’s actually from Proto-Celtic *woxtlom “word”, which is ultimately from PIE *wekw- “to speak”.

Not really a typo, rather an erratum: In the Lexipedia, under the section Society, subsection Customs (sorry, I have the Kindle version, can’t give a page number!) you have diolch as the Breton for “thank”, citing the etymology as ‘prayer’. diolch is Welsh, not Breton; its etymology is from a verb m...

The text in http://zompist.com/v-aluatas.png reads Aluatas i soa Sfhae.

(When are we getting dialect descriptions by the way?)

Tom Holland’s “In the Shadow of the Sword” might well be instructive here as a source of ideas.

(I have been following the thread on Voigare with great interest, as a Romance obsessive!)

One Tiffany problem in the USA is that people here don't understand much about British accents. For instance, there's a widespread misapprehension that "Shakespearean English" was closer to contemporary RP than to American English or West Country English so they would reject a Shakespeare...

Frislander wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:09 pm

dewrad wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:54 pm Who in the name of all that is holy is Sam Gyimah?

The other Tory token black.

No seriously that is basically all I really know him for, more so than James Cleverly. IIRC he's on the more central-wing of the party, but I honestly can't remember.

There are two?!?

Who in the name of all that is holy is Sam Gyimah?