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Say, I just remembered something. A while ago you assigned some people (including me) to go through the old message board and copy down all the info that you wrote about Almea. Just curious, what did you use all that info for, Z?

What aspect of Almea interests you the most? For me, it's always been the other continents. When looking at maps, I always want to know what's beyong the terra incognita . I'm dying to know what Arc?l will be like. We only know precious little of it. From what I can recall right now, Verduria and Ke...

I'm curious as to how similar Quarau monotheism is to the Cuzeian religion, since contact with the Ilii started them both.

Ah! You even added a nice map this time! Anything is better with a map! Now the only thinking kind left without a creation myth is the Flaids, but I'm sure their creation won't be as long. I don't really understand the sudden appearance of Flaids in the historical atlas (really, where were they befo...

I wonder if there were any Almean dinosaurs.

How's the Count of Years coming along, Z?

I believe it means that they think that the trolls exist, but they've never seen them.

Ranskaldan and Dyidic_Guy, since you're both Iliis now, we demand that you both write a thorough grammar of the language right away, or else!

I'm also interested in seeing the alphabet for this language. Are there different writing styles for each way of speaking, or will the writing be the only uniform thing in Ilii communication? How they manage to write underwater would also be interesting to know. :roll: Speaking of non-human writing ...

With the way you want Eteodaole to be, I have no idea how you'll be able to describe it to us when you finally figure it out! And to figure it all out you'd probably need a good dose of LSD...

Ah, I see. With what countries do they have good relations with? Do they have any close allies at all? It would be terribly difficult to make friends having such an evil reputation throughout all history. Both the Easterners and the Jippirasti fought against Munkh?sh, so I assume that they all still...

Life's like that sometimes. :) The Demoshi are a more dynamic culture-- probably because they were ruled by the Cadhinorians for a few centuries and learned a lot, while Tyellakh was a backwater. Sorry this isn't a language-based question, but what is a Dhekhnami's perception of evil? It must be a ...

zompist wrote:They're sister languages. Since the Demoshi are the top humans in the empire, 'Dhekhnami' is simply Demoshi.

Why are the Demoshi the top humans if the Tyellakhi were the first to be absorbed by the ktuvoks?

Well, Old French had nominative and accusative only, while Romanian retains three cases-- though I'm not sure which Latin cases correspond to the Romanian ones. Anyway, both Sarroc and Isma?n use the Cadh. ablative as a possessive, which allowed them to do without the genitive. I don't have much in...

You people are fast. Is there any language that can challenge you?

About this... Elkar?l is the language of the elcari of the Elkarin Mountains west of Eretald. It is the best-known non-human language of Erel?e. What do you mean by "best known"? What humans would actually take the time to learn this rough, Klingon-sounding language, and who would actually take the ...

After going through the whole thing, I see that this language is a real brain-twister. But...

??m bb?thuqaju ?J?ph?n shobd.

This is going to take us a while to digest, as it exceeds even the hints you gave to us prev times. Q: ? Zompist: What lang(s) are next? Xurn??/ T e?? ?inourene? (That's probably going to be a while, mabye even ?ekhnami sooner?) Heheh, gosh. You're probably scaring the poor guy. :)

Great! Can't wait to see it. I hope it's more detailed than Wede:i is, but, at this point, anything new will satiate us.

So, what's the next language on the agenda?

Z'omingok z'ongono z'ueni. (RESIST-I/we-past OPPONENT-object-my BROOM-ind. object) I resisted my opponent with a broom. Ponuzero ngunnino! (JUMP-negative-imperative GRAPE-ind.object-my) Don't jump on my grape! Juking ra worin jukingka ra jin. (SNEEZE-I/we in WEST-ind.object SNEEZE-I/we-and in EAST-...

Gojing yaujino.

Well, I wanted to say "I steal beetles."

Goju means steal, and attaching ing to the end would requite dropping the -u. Yauji is "beetle." Yaujin would be "beetles," and attatching -o at the end would make it the object of the sentence.

Am I right?

Is that right? ... I want to say "Who speaks Wede:i?" Anyway, out of all Almean languages it seems that Wede:i is the least popular. It's probably because the vocabulary is so limited. I was bored, so I planned on writing a paragraph in it and posting it, but with so few words I wouldn't have been a...

As you can see, not yet, sorry. :) I'm actually very close to having the Elkar?l ready for posting... mostly I want to add some more words. The Count of Years is... oh lord... over 70 pages now. I'm planning to post it in stages, as I did the Historical Atlas. So, not to be a pest, how long until w...

Geographically not unlike Japan either, as they're all islands off the edge of a large landmass. But since Kebri's in the southern hemisphere, it's closer to the equator than most of eastern Erel?e. It's latitude's more like north Africa, or somewhere between Kyuushuu and Okinawa. Well, I was think...

I'll try to answer your question in more detail later... I need to finally add some pages to the site first! :o Could it be...The Count of Years!? *crosses fingers* Anyway, yeah, Kebri is a rather interesting place. Geographically and militarily it's similar to England, religiously it's like Japan,...