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Ah, no shit -- cool. Thx for the tip .>:)

I dont have the cash for MS Word for this new comp of mine -- so currently I use Notepad ..

And notepad doesn't do IPA ... Also X-Sampa is much easier to write

Here's the flag of my as-yet-embrionic concountry/nation/people: http://i931.photobucket.com/albums/ad152/Joe1729/ScriptishFlag-1.jpg Yes, I made it on MS Paint. The black motif is the character for "man; human being; member of this nation (etc)". It is green on the inside and gold on the outside t...

zompist wrote:Zip file for the PC:

http://www.zompist.com/civ2.htm

cool, thx zomp

zompist wrote:The Civ2 mod was done ages ago...

well, where's the link? .. so I can download it ..

is it a zip file, or a self extracting .exe?

Hey Zomp, when is it gonna be done

I am saving my old Civ 2 for your MOD when your finally done with it .. I wanna play the history and feel for the area ..

zompist wrote:
A factoid for you: the Word file containing the Xurnese grammar was created in June 1988, almost 20 years ago. It's currently 100 pages long.

Wow.. cool that it's stuck around for all of us to see your original work. It is good that the grammar will be out soon..

SO can I post Tubgirl..

I know Zomps been pretty quiet about his work, but I was curious, any updates? (since I know the majority of us follow his work here on Almea)

The Luganda Learning Manual

basically a "beginners textbook' of ~ 183 pages to learn the basics of a Bantu language
http://eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdo ... /35/0b.pdf

Here is a more Grammar based info, reading & writing as well
http://www.buganda.com/luganda.htm

boy #12 wrote:Somebody attempted to break down the sentence and Mark provided some etymologies here:
http://www.spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.p ... c&start=25

ah ok, cool

Hello together. In the LCK, Marc mentions the language of Xurnaš. There is no grammar up yet, but he gives us this sentence: Ir nevu jadzies mnošudacij. Toc šizen ri tos bunjači šasik rili. Tos denjic šuš bunji dis kezi. Syu šačo cu šuš izraugi. "My niece is dating a sculptor. She can see no flaws ...

I found a good paper on the Great Ngamo Tone SHift

so for those who want to do some SC's on thier tones, here is a good look at one..

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/aflan ... s/GNTS.pdf

I found another one that we all can use

a guide/overview on writing grammars..

http://www.uwm.edu/~noonan/Grammar-Writing.revision.pdf

I thought this might come in handy for some

Pidgin genesis with a good number of examples from pidgins, especially those from the amerind areas..

http://csli-publications.stanford.edu/L ... esnan.html

For anybody who wants to research Bantu stuff (like me..)

This is a BIG site with buttloads of papers, grammars, lexicons, ect, ect...

CBOLD

http://www.cbold.ddl.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/

Just got Civ 4 a few weeks ago, and it rocks

I wonder if the boss is gonna change his Civ2 Mod to a Civ4 Mod...

Rory's right that the Eastern languages were created before proto-Eastern; but they were also modified afterward. They do all properly derive from proto-Eastern. The equivalent of Nostratic would presumably be Ta?se (see the Key page in the historical atlas). Try that, if you want; or one of the ot...

Hey Zomp, I am looking over your cool Proto-Eastern write up, and you mention "Is there an Almean equivalent of Nostratic? Not yet, but it's tempting to provide one. Based on their earliest locations, the Easterners were probably related to the Wede:i, the Fei, and the Lenani." Well???? when are ya ...

very nice Zomp, I like the new pic..

Maybe you can tweak the old one to make it more of an evening or twilight scene, since the new one definately looks like Mid-day

or even a differening season, like winter, or fall?

Dude, that was soo cool!

great use of layers...

Space Dracula wrote:Instead of complaining about #almea, let's all help Spack, Radius, and others create a conworld aimed at avoiding dumb mistakes!

surewe'd help.. what help do ya need spacey?

and why would anybody complain about what Zomp has created here, I think Almea is great...

1984?

either an appleIIe, Lisa or a Mac1

I remember starting programming on them back in 85, 86 when Basic, Cobal, C, and Fortran were the only things to learn ...lol

I saved the sound changed onto word..and I got 44 pages of stuff..I am gonna have more natlang SC examples than I'll know what to do with..:) By the way, when I finish with Proto-Bantu -> Rangi, I'll post thier SC's, as well as Proto-Bantu -> Kenyang and a for others.. So I get to have fun and start...

SIGN ME UP!!!!!!!!

And hey can he write up a course getting into detail about his radicals and his 'funny chinese glyphs'..