Zompist Bboard Again

təskar mətəzaj mənamakre brastʃhə ndə ʃə ndo. kəʃmo cətə khrəmkhraj wungy təpa kəni khrəmthak kaptʃat ŋos. skuʒoxɲo təɟy salok ongy khrusxsol kamdzat. sten kəpa ormiɲo kənarizəmzəm kə ndəsasten. taro kə kormbaŋ ɲiton kanəthuks ŋos. tərmi kasat kanəzdukpa. təla kəɲes kə kanthen oxʃhet kəkte. əʃni zd...

English "turn up" [(unexpectedly) end up being at] seems like a reasonable semantic intermediate for both "go" [end up being at] and "live" [habitually be at] - but it's not clear to me how to get from "turn" to "take care of" or "serve" M...

Two other options for [ɕɥan˧˥tɕy˨˩] might be /ʃjonʃi/ or /ʃjondju/. Not sure if they're really better though...

Why do we know that 'beautiful' modifies panther?Well, it can't be 'tracks' anyway, because it carries the absolue prefix, typically used for background information. Except in poetry perhaps? It could refer to 'grandmother' or 'panther', or even the way it ate, but pragmatically 'beautiful panther'...

Has anyone else has this problem? What did you do to solve it? Yes, me four, and this might be one of the main reasons why I have focused my conlanging on diachronic developments starting from other people's conlangs. And it does happen even there, e.g. when I have several different options for gra...

I also think that this system looks plausible.

thethief3 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 05, 2020 1:34 am bí hana'n zúra ina ʎi
DEF-F flower LNK storm LNK-NEG 3-SG
“She was beautiful and not angry”

Can this sentence also be read as "she was not like a beautiful storm"? And if not, what would be the difference?

So the CT consonants look like this: /m n ŋ/ m n ĝ /t k/ t k /θ s ɬ x h/ ð s ł g h /ɹ l ʕ/ r l ʕ Should I change this to… /m n ŋ/ m n ĝ /t k/ t k /θ s ɬ x h/ z s ś ḫ h /ɹ l ʕ/ r l g ? If the latter, should I keep /θ/ ð ? I would personally almost always use θ s ł for /θ s ɬ/. For /ŋ/ you could use ...

And a symmetrical transitive voice, where the agent swaps roles with the patient but still retains its core status, is generally not called "passive voice" but rather "inverse voice" or similar. Therefore, maybe you could re-label your "passive" as "inverse",...

As far as I can see from your example, the mediopassive is really a passive. Mediopassive is a difficult label, but the medio- part implies that the agent is benefitted, or somewhat affected by the action. (Some ideas: for 'I kill for my benefit' ie. 'I hunt', 'I kill myself for my benefit', ie. 'I...

Is that an Oceanic language?

I'm probably not answering your question directly, but maybe it would be helpful to think about a possible earlier stage of this language. Suppose the desiderative and causative were once auxiliary verbs that inflected in exactly the same way as the main verb. How would the relevant types of sentenc...

To me, questions like "why is the world one way, and not the other?" are natural and interesting questions that curious people ask, the kinds of questions that drive scientific inquiry. "Why" is always a good question, but it is fundamentally a question about diachrony. "Ev...

I don't know about Kayne's book (I just saw it's a nice long one, 490 pp.), but e.g. a few times I've tried to find discussions by Chomskians on the Spanish sentence-initial que , specifically in the uses that don't involve 3rd-person imperatives , since I think they'd come up with interesting argu...

What would the semantic motivation be? It’s “lying” to you by being filled with vegetables and not meat? You know Swabian German, right? There's a Swabian dish called Maultaschen , which has an alternative name based on a very similar metaphor, just the other way around: Herrgottsbscheißerle , lit....

Eꞌ kë́patã sibö̀ tö ĩ́yök yawè. Eꞌ tsõꞌ awène ieꞌ tö, seꞌ ditsö̀, eꞌ rö Kṍbla. Lö̀nekã tãĩ̀, ema erë ieꞌ i mowẽ̀ne. Ieꞌ kĩ i kiàne i mòsopa iã katànok, yànok, kö̀ i di buaꞌ, ák wö̀chka ë̀ i di. Eꞌ kũẽ́ki eꞌ tö eꞌ ẽ̀wẽwã, ema eꞌ bũkãmi diꞌ ã. Eꞌ ské tskìne i di, eꞌ rö Tchõꞌdawe. Tchõꞌdawe bák ieꞌpa ...

I just came across an AI that invents new English words and writes dictionary definitions for them. noun. biofabrication the manufacture of human clothes and other products using natural materials "the manufacture of clothes is among the main activities that have allowed us to develop standard...

Papuan?

Birdlang wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 5:51 pm Is that language spoken in the Americas?

Yes. South America, upper Amazon, Peru, to be precise.

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 5:49 pm /tʂ/, /ç/, a back unrounded vowel, and no /o/... Munichi?

Yes, it's Munichi. (The ethnonym actually occurs in the text: Hinadu mamicənɯma çɲamaʔnɯ pweʔatəma tɯʔnamataʔa muniʈʂiʔɲa.)

Frislander wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 4:03 pmMixe-Zoquean?

No.

It is indeed Southeastern Pomo. (If I may ask: how did you figure that out? I was expecting it to be identified as Pomoan fairly easily, but I didn’t expect people to figure out the language at all easily.) The steps were roughly as follows: 1. Looks like it's from the west coast of North America, ...