Zompist Bboard Again

conlangs are silent languages...

some days you just want to smash everything...

Cross-posting, because it fits equally well here:

(just to keep things organised, please reply in the quoted thread if you want to discuss anything)

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 9:43 am

Lexember Advent Calendar Project...

Merry Christmas...

In a fit of temporary silliness, I recorded myself trying to do a movie trailer narrator voice:

https://drive.proton.me/urls/X1783TN5CM#dgU8IIjjj7FU

I tried to write a text in Liɣu last month: https://snapshotsofthelabyrinth.photo.b ... n-hahaono/

I never got around to finishing the romanization. (It wasn't particularly exotic.)

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 5:35 pm I tried to write a text in Liɣu last month: https://snapshotsofthelabyrinth.photo.b ... n-hahaono/

I never got around to finishing the romanization. (It wasn't particularly exotic.)

Just as a little suggestion, why don't you try using ogoneks rather than tildes, to avoid stacking two diacritics on top of one another (as then one will be over and one will be under)?

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 5:49 pm

rotting bones wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 5:35 pm I tried to write a text in Liɣu last month: https://snapshotsofthelabyrinth.photo.b ... n-hahaono/

I never got around to finishing the romanization. (It wasn't particularly exotic.)

Just as a little suggestion, why don't you try using ogoneks rather than tildes, to avoid stacking two diacritics on top of one another (as then one will be over and one will be under)?

It’s not necessarily a problem when the font supports it. Unfortunately, it looks like this one doesn’t.

(Ogenoks seem to be standard in IE linguistics anyway, for some reason. This is an IE lang, right, or am I misremembering?)

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:20 pm (Ogenoks seem to be standard in IE linguistics anyway, for some reason. This is an IE lang, right, or am I misremembering?)

ik for 1.S.NOM implies IE lang to me.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 5:49 pm Just as a little suggestion, why don't you try using ogoneks rather than tildes, to avoid stacking two diacritics on top of one another (as then one will be over and one will be under)?

Redoing the text was a part of the romanization project, which I never finished.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:58 pm ik for 1.S.NOM implies IE lang to me.

Pretty sure 1.S.NOM is aoz.

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:20 pm It’s not necessarily a problem when the font supports it. Unfortunately, it looks like this one doesn’t.

I can see both marks. Probably not worth changing the font since I intend to revise the writing system at some point.

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:20 pm (Ogenoks seem to be standard in IE linguistics anyway, for some reason. This is an IE lang, right, or am I misremembering?)

Yes, it's an exercise to teach myself PIE and historical linguistics. Does it not look obviously IE? It has the occasional estī.

The idea is that Orpheus was said to have been Thracian, so a para-Thracian language would be a good candidate for a magical language. Thracian is said to have been close to Baltic. That's what old Ligurian is like (or was in the original draft). At the same time, it's spoken close to Kurdish languages. That's what spoken Liɣu's case system in the 11th century is similar to. (There's no rhyme or reason behind the phonology except for being unusual.)

rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2026 11:00 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:58 pm ik for 1.S.NOM implies IE lang to me.

Pretty sure 1.S.NOM is aoz.

Compare Lithuanian aš.

rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2026 11:05 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:20 pm It’s not necessarily a problem when the font supports it. Unfortunately, it looks like this one doesn’t.

I can see both marks. Probably not worth changing the font since I intend to revise the writing system at some point.

I can see them too, but the tilde is rendered to the right of the macron rather than above it. It looks pretty ugly like that.

bradrn wrote: ↑Sat May 30, 2026 5:56 am

rotting bones wrote: ↑Fri May 29, 2026 11:05 pm

bradrn wrote: ↑Wed May 27, 2026 6:20 pm It’s not necessarily a problem when the font supports it. Unfortunately, it looks like this one doesn’t.

I can see both marks. Probably not worth changing the font since I intend to revise the writing system at some point.

I can see them too, but the tilde is rendered to the right of the macron rather than above it. It looks pretty ugly like that.

Here's what I see:

Gozmō̃ is related to cosmos.