FWIW, I've updated the Luke page to remove the Latin 'B' 'L' '!' characters (I've replaced them with the proper Verdurian characters now).
I've turned i-breve into plain (Verdurian) i -- I believe this is common practice in Verdurian texts anyway.
I've kept the hyphen as ASCII for now
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- Thu Sep 13, 2007 5:02 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Q for Zomp: Verdurian font
- Replies: 83
- Views: 30626
IIRC German works the same way; a glottal stop precedes an orthographic initial vowel. That's my understanding, too. Even word-internal vowel-initial morphemes tend to start with a glottal stop, though this is not universal -- for example, I say erinnern (from er- + innern?) as something like [E@?I...
- Fri Jan 24, 2003 12:50 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Count of Years
- Replies: 167
- Views: 50898
Heh... my favourite quote iszompist wrote:Chapter 8 is up.
Count of Years wrote:The Lale?sigō said nothing, but took the messenger and sacrificed him to Amnās.
- Wed Jan 22, 2003 8:14 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: So, besides the languages...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5244
it's going into an Almeopedia , which will have articles on just about anything that isn't covered in more detail elsewhere. But those things which are "covered in more detail elsewhere" will have entries in the Almeopedia with pointers to the other section, won't they? So that it can be a kind of ...
- Fri Jan 03, 2003 12:12 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Count of Years
- Replies: 167
- Views: 50898
Amnigo
Amnigo: with long o, no?zompist wrote:Amnigo (literally 'child of Amna:s').Jaaaaaa wrote:WHats the Cuezi word for Ktuvok, by the way?
Pangaea and Step One
Yes, but not everyone knows that, alas...at least in the past, too many textbooks presented Pangaea as if it were Step One. (I thought so myself as a child, before I grew older and deepened the scope of my reading.) Um, I thought so myself as a child, and still did until I read this thread. It neve...
- Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:42 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Led astray (har, har)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2671
I've wondered the same
Thanks for asking, mariko; I've wondered the same thing before
- Tue Nov 12, 2002 8:13 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Tidbits from beyond IE
- Replies: 149
- Views: 127354
So, it turns out in Turkish double plurals aren't allowed. Saying "the two books are on the table" is incorrect because it marks the plurality three times: with "two", "-s", and "are". (Sorry, I don't know the actual words at the moment, I just remember the concept.) That's interesting. I know of l...
- Wed Nov 06, 2002 3:01 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Web server statistics back to Verdurian
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2645
How did I manage to get a report in Verdurian?
Yes. Is that a problem? :D The thing is, those couple of lines of text come from a static file and are inserted by analog. It was easier to keep the text static rather than specify a new inclusion file for each language. So it says "Verdurian" even if you're viewing the stats in Viminian, English, o...
- Fri Nov 01, 2002 2:32 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lingography
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3050
Old Verdurian, and dialects
And I wonder whether the pre-Great Relexification Verdurian (e.g. the sample in Soa Et?levi i Ihano) might be reinterpreted/retconned as some dialect, perhaps early Av?lan? It is, after all, internally consistent, just different from Modern Standard Mažtana.
- Mon Oct 28, 2002 3:08 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Barakhinei
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7627
I don't know if the phonology differs between the sexes as in Barakhinei, but it does in Argentine Spanish: <ll> is pronounced as :sh but women pronounce it in a longer and more emphatic way. That reminds me of this nugget from Katzner's The Languages of the World : A curious feature of the languag...
- Sun Oct 27, 2002 3:02 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Barakhinei
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7627
- Sun Oct 27, 2002 2:57 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Barakhinei
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7627
Without bothering to decipher the Barakhinei -- I assume the question was where the separate male/female phatic particles came from? I remember when I was told that my Japanese sounded a bit feminine... because I sometimes hung around the Japanese girls at school while I was learning Japanese and pi...
- Wed Oct 23, 2002 11:02 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Any other Almea out there?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12594
weird
Lojban, perhaps... but then, it doesn't really distinguish between verbs and nouns. "selbri" are kind of like verbs but they can also be used like nouns if you put an article to them. So that's basically cheating.Glenn wrote:Say...anyone know a language where "weird" is a verb?
- Tue Oct 15, 2002 11:39 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Web server statistics back to Verdurian
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2645
Web server statistics back to Verdurian
OK, I don't remember who asked for this, but the default for my web server's statistics switched from Viminian back to Verdurian. (Viminian is still available by calling the appropriate URL explicitly.) The encoding is Latin-2 (Eastern Europe); Latin-1 is available with an explicit URL -- follow the...
- Sat Oct 12, 2002 4:42 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: You Are Leaving The American Sector
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4125
Cadhinor
Cadhinor, like Verdurian, is pro-drop; since the inflection determines the person, you can leave off the "Let". And I think the ablative makes more sense in Cadhinor if you're leaving "away from" somewhere: Scannad Americae feus. BICBW about the case usage.GreenBowTie wrote:CADHINOR
Let scannaa americae feus.
- Fri Oct 11, 2002 9:27 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Elkar?l grammar
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18725
Default order of vowels in anaphors?
When you assign a certain vowel to a person with -qeb- , are there any traditional orders? Perhaps u-?-i for far-medium-close referents? Or alphabetical order, whatever that is in Elkar?l? Or anything like that? Or perhaps picking a prominent vowel in the name of the referent? Or is the order (poten...
- Fri Oct 11, 2002 12:12 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Elkar?l grammar
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18725
- Thu Oct 10, 2002 11:34 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Elkar?l translation request
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3970
Elkar?l translation request
Here's a little challenge for y'all, to keep me from wrapping my brains around the grammar & vocabulary that closely: Can you please translate for me into Elkar?l the sentence "If you can understand this, you can speak Elkar?l"? I'm considering swapping it for the Cadhinor in my current Slashdot .si...
- Thu Oct 10, 2002 6:47 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Elkar?l grammar
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18725
Lojban's ko'a and friends (or, more generally, goi as an assigner) was what I first thought of when I read about the "assigning" bit.zompist wrote:The variable idea is indeed similar to Sign, and also Lojban, though neither of these took the idea to its logical extreme and got rid of the personal pronouns!
- Thu Oct 10, 2002 6:47 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Elkar?l grammar
- Replies: 53
- Views: 18725
- Fri Oct 04, 2002 6:54 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Tidbits from beyond IE
- Replies: 149
- Views: 127354
you3 is also the only irregular verb in Chinese (so to speak). All verbs, every single one, takes bu4 for negative. Only you3 changes itself to mei2 , or mei2you3 . And in Cantonese, it has a special negative verb "mou5" to go with "yau5"/"yau6" . All other verbs are negated with "m" (not sure how ...
- Fri Oct 04, 2002 6:35 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Tidbits from beyond IE
- Replies: 149
- Views: 127354
Chinese you3 does double duty as both 'have' and 'there is', depending on whether you precede it with a subject or not. And of course, the literal meaning of French il y a "there is/there are" is "it there has". Apparently not an uncommon way for humans to think about possession. In this context, i...