Zompist Bboard Again

Here's the problem with this conlang: to your health UHer ( to-HEALTH-your ) your-HEALTH-to : This would be too much like Latin, you see. Or Okrand Atlantean, a conlang. 1600s Massachusett has your-HEALTH also, and even has a -LOCATIVE word-final case ending. I went with the Biblical Hebrew and Egyp...

... Actually, the thing I find most interesting about this is the extensive nonconcatenative morphology — verbal slot/template systems aren’t that rare, but extensively nonconcatenative ones are. "In" takes Genitive, huh? That's unusual. I'm not sure if it's nonconcatenative morphology. I...

... I know that zompist (the founder of this board) was interested enough in logographic scripts spend a whole chapter talking about them in his book Advanced Language Construction , and I can think of at least one highly-developed logographic con-script (the Caber logographs) which was published o...

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 3:45 am ...

It's in the first post:

a Spaniard which is on a big black horse
S OHIBAC

S
a Spaniard

OHIBAC
which is on a big black horse

O-
on-

HB
horse

-I-
-big-

-A
-black

-C
which is

... If these are meant to provide further semantic information, shouldn't "number" and "nature" be different consonants? Actually, I think the N NUMBER is a hold-over from an earlier conlang that I replaced and wrote over. Originally everything was consonants but then I made all...

... If these are meant to provide further semantic information, shouldn't "number" and "nature" be different consonants? No, one of the premises of the language is that it's all differentiated already but you just can't see it. This is just an easy way to write it. It's like wri...

... OHIBAC on-HORSE-big-HORSE-black-which HB horse O- on- I -big- -A black -C which Different sorts of affixes fit in different slots in the morphological template. There's some hierarchy to them, though, so they move around based on that. The first position is ROOT1-between.root(-ROOT1) And then i...

... I just typed it up using the best of the terminology that I can remember. A verb chain is a verb chain, and a noun chain is a noun chain, so I maybe made up a term "morphological chain" to refer to either a verb chain or a noun chain. Usually one ever reads of a "verb chain"...

Infixing Morphological Chain Minimal Game Hillbilly Conlang 6 21 2020 ... I'm focusing on a famous conlang right now, Atlantean, so here's one of the side conlangs that I made up recently. ... This is maybe the easiest to write conlang I have ever made. It ends up being a bit heavy on morphological ...

GreenBowtie wrote: ↑Tue May 05, 2020 7:44 am ...

Wow, that looks neat. Thank-you for posting this. You do some really neat stuff.

zompist wrote: ↑Thu Apr 16, 2020 2:50 am ...

This thread is a lot of fun.

Recently I see glosses like dog:NOMINATIVE and it must be this sort of thing to which it's referring. Otherwise, I wouldn't gloss something like that unless I had to. What a mess.

I say, the image quality of those frames is quite good. Did someone already transcribe all the lines? Yes, it was me. Actually, this past week, the Okrand Atlantean Language facebook group had Cesar Maidana of Argentina make some better transcriptions than I was about to make in c 2007. Which is a ...

I've started doing more translations in this "Ancient Bantu" conlang. Here's some samples. These texts are from the Epic of Son-Jara (of the Old Mali Empire). I recently realized that West Africa is mostly Non-Bantu Niger-Congo. Oh well, Pakuni is based on those and I've been working on th...

This reply is based on an album I recently made for the "Okrand Atlantean Language" facebook group. You must be a member to see it. Everyone is welcome. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1665927943559528&type=3 ... ALL MAJOR WRITTEN ATLANTEAN SCENES IN MOVIE AND VIKING PROLOGU...

Here is the Text #2018 2.22 in the Atlantean Alphabet:

https://i.ibb.co/HzrQnML/46ctc7.jpg ... ... Here's recent posts by me about Okrand Atlantean (sister language to Klingon) and other conlangs I'm working on. I've gotten a few requests that I try to keep all my posts about a given conlang in a single thread. The other posts seem to be organized like...

I read a lot of these and they're a lot of good ideas.

... I don't know who you are and you say these things to me? I've been conlanging and studying conlangs for 15 years. I even posted on this group as early as 2007. I write what I do about my ability as a conlanger and understanding of conlanging from honesty and dedication to conlanging as a subdis...

... I've done plenty of posts and they're easy to view by clicking on my profile and clicking the list of them. I have a website listing links to my works. https://anylanguageatall411.blogspot.com/2015/04/guide-to-any-language-at-all-website.html?view=flipcard I have a facebook group on conlangs, o...

I want to create a language with a Caucasian-inspired phonology (lots of consonants, few vowels) with morphosyntax inspired by non-Bantu Niger-Congo languages and Sinitic languages. I've been studying Niger-Congo languages and especially non-Bantu all the past year. I know Sinitic languages well an...