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Here is a small amount of possible extra vocab for proto-peninsular. Let me contribute something as well: Proto-Peninsular Kinship Terms (Note: Many of these terms are not specified for the gender of the referent, but if this information is desired, the suffixes *-ua ( *-a after final /u/) for male...

Can't find anything in the settings about hidden categories... Maybe as Zhen Lin suggested it's from a future version? Should I investigate upgrading? We're already running version 1.12, which should be the newest one. Maybe they removed this feature but didn't change the documentation. Never mind,...

Yeah. I can assist. That's great, thank you! It's probably best if we have a discussion on IRC, but I'll post my own ideas here anyway. ktshīlhǣ /"kts_hi:l_0æ:/. (Rather forbidding-looking, isn't it.) Yes, especially since Pirikõsu has strict CV phonotactics. This would probably be borrowed as sile...

Also, I have created a few words for a descendant of Proto-Peninsular to borrow into Pirikõsu. That language is called Menehã by the Pirikõsu (autonym: [ˈmæɾnɛhɑ̃]), and it's supposed to be the northernmost Peninsular language on the continent by 1500 YP. It uses these sound changes except for the ...

(Our category-fu leaves much to be desired.) I'm just done with some major wiki re-structuring, re-categorization, and elimination of double links (e.g. Aiwa valley vs. Aiwa Valley). It's not all perfect yet, but a lot more organized than before. A few articles (Akana, History of Akana, Edastean la...

OK, I've got the basic lexicon for my Naidda descendant. Now I'd like to have some nearby neighbors to borrow more words from. I'm not aware of any described non-Edastean languages of this era, except for Pirikõsu which still lacks any real lexicon - although that one's close to Kasca, south of it....

I think horses should indeed have been first domesticated by the Proto-Westerners, as this is suggested by the facts that a) the NT word was borrowed from Gezoro, and b) the PW sample text specifically refers to the domestication of the horse. The only slight difficulty with this is that the Gezoro ...

This chronology looks good to me. -2200: * A number of new sound changes occur quickly in pPF, perhaps due to contact with pre-existing languages in their new home These could well be northern dialects of Ngauro... which would provide us with a good scenario for a little sprachbunding. Or maybe some...

Looks very very good so far. A couple of comments: - I find it a bit strange that the morphophonological Nasalization process turns /s/ into [n], but not /4/ which has a common prenasalized allophone. I'd personally swap these two (that is, the fricative would be immune to Nasalization, while the ta...

The articles are up. Go team!

A wiki is now available at http://superlush.co.uk/~akana/ This is great, thank you! 8) Now we need to do the configuration and get the content up. I have a full copy of the articles as they were when the KQ went down, updated to include the changes made on FrathWiki over the last weeks. If you give...

-pē might also be reinterpreted as an augmentative suffix when the normal compound order switches. We already have thāraspē for "Greater Thāras", for example. This would be even more plausible if the morpheme becomes uncommon on its own at some point (Aθáta and Æðadĕ, the two dialects most likely t...

So when it says: c. -1600: Proto-Isles speakers begin migrating from mainland to islands. Andagg state has disintegrated. are they migrating from mainland Peilaš out to islands or from the eastern continent out to islands and then eventually to Peilaš? The second of these. Looking at Mûtsipsa', it ...

Welcome back! I'd like to derive a daughter from proto-Isles. Is there any need for such a conlang? Where could it fit in the general scheme of the world (as there is no proto-Isles page on the wiki)? ... EDIT: looking at the timeline, I am right in thinking that Proto-Isles is contemporary to some ...

Radius Solis wrote:Meanwhile, slow as things have been in here the last week, here's some entertainment: let's identify all the English-Edastean false friends we can find

Buruya xɛvra "sheep" (Delta Naidda zivra) ~~~ French chèvre "goat"

It'd be great if we could revise the Proto-Isthmus reconstructions and resolve all the variables, for a start (keeping in mind the handful of proposed Miwan and Ngauro cognates, of course). Drawing on the established changes, I'd like to posit the following etymologies: PEI *njadz-ga "war" > PI *nj...

That makes the Doroh reflexes the following, if the changes are not changed:

*balon > baln
*dasjem > daʃɛm
*dumasg > dumakk
*dsusnen > zunnɛn
*sgonta > skɔnta
*sklitst > skliʧ
*ʈelka > ʈɛlka
*tsot > ʦɔʔ

*BAlAn (iron) > poulu (iron) *dAsJVm (hemp) > tezei (clothe) *dumAGZ (glass) > tukou (glass) *DZusn-en (paint - color) > zu (ink) *s-gAnt-A(tJV/ʈ) (dragon) > chotai (snake) *s-kLIt-TS (longsword) > chitei (sword) *ʈALk(a) (king) > tsekai (chief, ruler) *TSAt (gold) > zos (gold) Could you list your ...

Legion, the Doroh sound changes are on the page Cedh just linked. Also: holy crap, when did that happen? I have no memory of anybody claiming Doroh... It's not "claimed", I only described some sound changes in order to make the Western Isthmus reconstruction appear possible from an in-world perspec...

All the info we have on Feråjin and Doroh is here and here . You might also want to have a look at the Faraghin wordlist : Faraghin is the closest relative of Feråjin, spoken about -1000 YP (that is, a millennium before Fáralo). Also, you should have a close look at the history of the region as prop...

Has anyone been IRC chatting? Should we schedule something? That would be good. Zhen Lin seems to be online all the time, but I haven't met anyone else on #Akana for weeks. I can usually have IRC running from c. 10 to 18 and from 20 to 02 hrs CEST (the second period would be better because the firs...

Let's compromise, for now: we put a few of the most important pages up on frathwiki (like Akana, Empire of Athale, and Timeline) for use as a reference and something we can point newer people to, while we decide what to do about a long-term solution. Done. It doesn't look too pretty because the tem...

My intention as soon as the KQ comes back up is to save the wikicode for every Akana article that currently exists. Just in case. I have a complete copy of the Akana stuff on my local wiki, the latest synchronization dating to April 23, 00:36 CEST. The only things I remember someone changing after ...

Here is a preview of my current map revision, with some tilting of Siixtaguna, some reshaping of the island coastlines, and a slight rotation of the whole continent. http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8969/akanamappreviewrw7.th.gif Not bad. Maybe we could compare some other versions, if you have ti...

Here is a preview of my current map revision, with some tilting of Siixtaguna, some reshaping of the island coastlines, and a slight rotation of the whole continent. Most visible coastlines should be final, but I think I'll modify the northwestern part of the continent somewhat because of the tecton...