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I speak Argentine Rioplatense Spanish, which has a different 2nd person singular pronoun, which drives me crazy when I travel to other parts of Latin America. I never know how should I address the locals: "vos" or "tú"?

Just by looking at your maps, I can tell that the plate boundaries in Almea probably are at the bottom of the sea. You see, unlike Earth, Almea has mountains at the middle of continents and nowhere else. If the plate boundaries were located where continents and sea meet, like Earth, your mountains w...

Let's see... Apparently, "Javier" (Xavier in English) is something like "new house". So it'd translate as lebe + dom = Domlebe . "Gustavo"/"Gustav" isn't there; it means "staff of the goths". Staff is prosh ; I didn't find Goth in the dictionary so I'll leave it as it is. Goprosh --> Goproshei . "Ba...

My sig.

More or less of topic, but as we're talking about Munkhash:
From map -1360, I seem to associate
{Dark Brown-->Munkhash-->Ktuvok==EVIL}
So, form 1989, when Cadhinas loses control of some Eynleyni, I say "oh no Munkhash is back they will kill everyone!!!!!!!!!".

Strange.

How and when do diphthongs form in Verdurian, and how does that afect stress? I've read the page on phonology but I don't understand.

I was just looking at the Verdurian Language Introduction page, and I noticed something: Only two other dialects have any literary development: those of Avéla (due to the importance of the city in the printing industry and as a center of the Eleďe religion) and Ctésifon (the former center of the Emp...

Has anyone noticed the man cleaning on the right side of the new picture?

I also like the redoing of the sky.

Spanish:
-¿Cómo comes?
-¿Cómo cómo como? ¡Como como como!
/"komo "komes/
/"komo "komo "komo/ /"komo "komo "komo/

-How do you eat?
-How "how do I eat"? I eat as I eat!

Also Farmacéutico and Murciélago have all five vowels.

Well, the best description of [r] I can do is to say [s] and move the tip of the tongue a little back. It will trill alone - you don't have to force it or something. Also, you don't have to have a "good" or "gifted" tongue to do it. Just look at the millions of people with [r] in their natlangs (as ...

I'm looking at the Proto-Eastern page, and I was wondering if Zompist could upload or describe or something the phonologies of Obenzayet and Lufa :sh a.

so a "vocalic" /j/ would be more like /i/ and a "consonantal" one would be more like /j\/?

so?

Despite years of Spanish, I always had the bad habit of forming the future tense as "Voy a X" instead of properly using the conjugation I should have. It wasn't actually incorrect (at least by the dialect I was learning), but it sounded a bit...juvenile. "I'm gonna do X, I'm gonna do Y" isn't the m...

but then, what would be a consonantal /j/?

FROM PROTO-EASTERN PHILOLOGY: aw /aw/, ay /aj/, ey /ej/, and oy /oj/ are the only true diphthongs. Where w and y occur with other vowels they are consonantal

but in (say) /aj/, it's already a consonant /j/. Something with sense would be that, for example, ew it's /e u/

Hi! I'm new here and I want to ask something: Zomp, how did you do the Verdurian etc. fonts?

I'd say "lengua inventada por Mark Rosenfelder"

I could translate it to spanish

It's much better than the old one. I wish I could draw so nicely...