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Eddy the Great wrote: I've added a new aspect

How many aspects do you have?

K'?la'ik?alamino. K'?la-'ik?-a-la-mi-ni. house-make-past-3SOI-3SSA-4SSI. He and it built the building. The multiple subject agreement markers. Well, that's what my conlang N?yanla does. Except it would be: Xela?inpharalwawe?o Xe-la?in-pharal-wa-we-?o {trans}-building-make-3SSA-3SSI-3SOI He and it a...

Eddy the Great wrote:

xelhapwatlashpirāxiwatlarasif?to?axokatar?lwa?o

That is one long word. Even my conlang doesn't have them that long.

That word has the full forms of some verbs in it. For example, watlashpirāx is 'language' and watlarasif?to?axo is 'world' or 'earth', both of which could be shortened.

Neither, because it doesn't have cases. Its agreement system is active, and makes a three-way distinction: intransitive subjective, intransitive objective, and transitive. I see. Very interesting. Yeah, I adopted a similar system for N?yanla. I finally completed my Babel Text. See it here: http://w...

Not at all; there's a very good fit between grammatical and semantic animacy. A few words have moved between the categories over the millennia, but Cheyenne's classifications are even a good match for Proto Algonquian's. Although I guess there are some dialect differences. According to http://www.g...

Does anyone know about sound changes in Russian? I need to know for a conlang I'm starting on

How would your lang handle this type of formation? Like this: !Slan!efta k?tilatgsuqul?lam? k?ktek?mi. !Sla-n!e-fta k?-tila-tgsu-qul?-la-m? k?-kte-k?-mi. one-th-bird habitual-land/earth-through-crawl-3SOI-4SSA habitual-receive-4SOA-3SSA. The early bird get the worm. I meant how would you handle a c...

The word for worm literally means something along the lines of "it crawls through the Earth", although Earth has it's own meaning in itself... Actually, that 'worm' word shown is shortened (despite its current length). In my conlang, verbs can't be incorporated into other verbs like that. The word ...

T?runwakir?o xewenōranitl?tlaraf?toyofowwa?o. T?run-wakir?o xe-wenōranitl?tlaraf?to-yofow-wa-?o. First-bird {trans}-worm-catch-3SSA-3SOI. The early bird gets the worm I can see that you have a very long word for worm. Is it a verb? I can see that worm is inanimate, too. Also, is 54 phonemes to high...

I have a few examples of text in my conlang (it's name is N?yanla, btw). They are just random proverbs I use in all of my grammars for comparison. What do you think of them and am I doing this right? ?ēnrinshalitl?ya tsalh?norinsirabalwe?o. ?ēnrinkalīatl?ya tsalh?nosirabalwe?o. ?ēn-rin-shali-tl?-ya ...

So Haleza Grise wrote:

CountJordan wrote:Mark,
Just wandering is Babblers close to being published (or is it almost done?)

Babblers has a complete manuscript; Mark has been shopping around for publishers for a little while but so far has not found any that are keen.

What's Babblers?

This is a little off topic, but I need to know this for my conworld. Jburke, since you know the most about Native American languages and cultures, What do you think would have happened to Native American development if they weren't contacted by an outside culture for another 300 years?

The problem is that you're projecting your English thinking habits onto your very different language; and even trying to mimick English syntax with it. If 'speak' is the root of the word, speakers will identify _that_ as the main idea, as the emphasis, esp. if you incorporate 'Terps' (effectively b...

How long can the words for a single noun get in polysynthetic languages? I'm just translating a few sentences, and I found the word for "worm" is weno-ranitléwatlarasivíto?axo, meaning "it crawls through the earth" when English-ized (The dash should be a macron over the vowel before it). The length ...

jburke wrote: What do you mean by "expression arrangements?"

Oh, sorry. I meant like what you said for Mohawk:

jburke wrote:modal(s) + pronominal_prefix + incorporated_noun_root + verb_root + suffix(es)

Give me a better word for it and I will use it.

This is just a basic question, but what is a "prenominal prefix"? A pronominal prefix is required on every Mohawk verb; it gives subject and object information, and provides for agreement. Mohawk has three classes: subjective, objective and transitive prefixes. Now, pretty much everyone agrees that...

Hope you don't mind, Jburke, but since I will be trying my hand at a polysynthetic language, I will probably be asking some questions (although most of them were answered in the first part of this thread). modal(s) + pronominal_prefix + incorporated_noun_root + verb_root + suffix(es) You said this w...

PLEASURE DOME: a place of pleasurable entertainment or recreation : RESORT Well, why would that be in the slangy sexual terms :? Does it only refer to the kind of thing Frankie Goes to Hollywood (for those who were teenagers in the 80s like me) would sing about? Or, in other words, you would not ta...

http://www.zompist.com/thematic.htm#41 :D 8) :D I see the Boardlord has thought of everything already. By the way, what?s a pleron?e ? (I?ve never heard of the English term.) Perhaps the definition should be in Verdurian so as not to scandalize people. PLEASURE DOME: a place of pleasurable entertai...

Is there anyone out there willing to give me a hand in learning Verdurian. I have been looking over Marks work for a few days now and have been absolutely fasinated. If you can help me please just post here. If you do this for me i might be able to help you with something in return. See the Does an...

Is there anyone out there willing to give me a hand in learning Verdurian. I have been looking over Marks work for a few days now and have been absolutely fasinated. If you can help me please just post here. If you do this for me i might be able to help you with something in return. See the Does an...

Eddy-- Don't worry about people confusing you with all these "moods." You can use whatever terminology you like (and what best fits) to describe your language. E.g., I only descibe Noyatukah as having two moods, the manifest and unmanifest, though the language can morphologically indicate commands,...

K'?la'ik?lamek-Build the building. (strong) K'?la'ik?lamet-Please build the building. (weak) K'?la'ik?lame'-You have to build the building. (necessitive) I've gotten rid of readyness and made it a preverb, like want. The necessive isn't all that necessary as there is a preverb that does something s...

T?l@uilğo/ only has 34 phonemes and 3 aspects, although it does have a lot of things, about 6(strong command, weak command, question, requirement, what should be, readyness), that I think are moods. I'm not sure. What's the difference between 'strong command' and 'weak command'? And how do you use ...

Right, they're not interfertile with Almeans. Interplanetary breeding only works on Star Trek ... Many of them did marry, and adopt children; for some time these adoptive families were important in the new Directorate and in the Avelan Church. What about their status as a Thinking Kind? Were they j...