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Les échelles les amène dans la salle souterraine. En anglais: The ladders lead us down into the underground room. I don't know why, but this seems... melodic to me. /lez_???l lez_?mIn d?n l? sæl sut?RIn/ /lez_3/(sh)3/l lez-amIn don la sæl sut3/RIn/ That sounds like one of those sentences form Ducha...

Alveolar trills come pretty easily to me, but while we're on the topic, does someone want to explain how to master the uvular trill? I usually come out with the voiced fricative instead; if I manage the trill it's by accident.

It's great. Particulalry, I'm amused by the biographies. I liked reading about the particulars of how Ružeon's reconstruction. The Řon Lebië Kestië sounds like some kind of Dewey Decimal Language.


Oh no, the Wekipaijua!

Do you have any thoughts on particular stylistics? What do their paintings and sculptures look like?

Serali wrote:What does the Gurdagor script look like?

It's a derivative of the script for Old Skourene, but we don't know much about it. The OS page says it's simplified somewhat. I think it says somewhere that the syllable markers have turned into diacritic symbols.

As an aside: I still don't really know how to pronounce "Xurno"... I want to pronounce the X as /S/ but I'm not sure that's right (I do know "Axunashin" = "Aks(h)unashin") The x in Xurno/Xurnásh is a /z/. I'm also eager to see exactly how it's developed from Axunashin...I think Mark said somewhere ...

I should also add how cleverly written it is that you assume they're both men until the farmer says “I’m very so grateful to you women.” And it just hits you like a ton of bricks.

<3 I enjoyed this a lot. It was interesting to finally have the dark and unexplored reaches of Arcél opened up to us, a bit. I'm still trying to make sense of all that we've learned about the culture. So the gender roles are (more or less?) reversed in this Northern area, but not the South. Kâ's te...

I would tend to say go ahead...I imagine it's the sort of thing that never really feels done. You could release new material every so often.

Unless something feels REALLY wrong with it. And never mind the Eynleyni! I'm happy with whatever you offer.

For some reason I find myself eager to find out more about the Eynleyni peoples. They're kind of a dark undeveloped spot on the map, but what little we hear always sounds cool, and tantalizing. The Biology page says that "the Dhekhnami and Monkhayu have an ashen cast." It's sort of hard to visualize...

A year ago I said Ismain and Flaidish; now I'm thinking Kebreni and Old Skourene.

But I like them all...

Orjibirtiš tibelax - The Army of the Hermit - lessons from spiritual masters Nanukumiš omuvi - Thoughts of Nanukuz - sayings of a great philosopher Rodiei endei - The Ways of Nations - statecraft and diplomacy Zalayei duxudo - For the Instruction of Generals - war tactics Axunaiš sigadu yutei - The...

On what page of Virtual Verduria are these aspects of Kebrini culture mentioned? (I looked, but couldn't find them.) The Kebreni language page; I'm basing most of this on one of the sample texts. The pillows thing was somewhere in the lexicon. I do hope the Almeopedia will have some more info on th...

I would go see Kebri. I like their focus on wine- and cheese-making. And all the olives. And the sitting on pillows. I imagine I'd have the best dining experience. Oh, and I like their language.

Demoshi should be more interesting and I do intend to get to it. All I can say for now is that I'm going to get away from the "nasty sounds for nasty people" meme. If anything I'd like it to sound nice. This may well mean that some established words change or get a new history, though! (E.g. it may...

Happy New Year!

This is lovely. I especially like the redo of the shop window on the left and the fortress in the back. (=Arcaln?)

What part of the city did you picture this being in?

Awfully hard to decide, but I really really like Flaidish.

Ismain would be my #2.

I knew this was imminent after reading the Meshaism page.

yay!

Drydic_guy wrote:I guess we just realised another difference between American and British.

Not entirely...I think I say it the British way.

Could just be a weird local thing.

Not that the word 'extant' is used much in conversation.

But now what does the rest of the Jippirasti world think of them? (the Carhinnoi)

"object before subject in basic word order" occurs only in...three apples?

zompist wrote:Heh... did you do a search on the Verdurian dictionary to find that?

You mentioned a couple of borrowings from Tellinor on the main Verdurian page.

What's Rafsani, by the way?

I'm more interested in the Western languages (which are polysynthetic) and even Uytainese (which looks isolating for now). Western, meaning the languages in the Rau Jungle? Or Tellinor? Or elsewhere? From what tiny bit is visible of the Tellinor languages, I like them a lot. They have a sort of Asi...

I love it too. I was particularly amused by the idea of 'businesschildren.'

And modern Flora just has to include chillee plants.