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Thanks! No Siddham influence here; I actually first really looked at Siddham about a day before I posted this, by which point it was already very much in its current state. The aesthetic similarities were certainly not lost on me, though. CURRENT STUPID IDEAS: I'm thinking I might nix the language b...

Ne'ísimel ná. :p
Seems familiar. :p

I'm glad people approve! OKAY, a bit of diachronic stuff: It makes a great deal of sense to make the moraicization of syllable codas be a recent change; this should allow me to fully take advantage of prosody in the development of the whole mora adjustment system thing. I do need to do quite a bit m...

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I keep getting stuck listening to October Project---here's my favorite song by them.

They're aligned based on a top bar. The hooks on some of the characters (specifically the characters for p, t, š, h, m and r) go over the line.

Time to work on the grammar and making some vocabulary, I guess.

(alternatively, I might just play videogames)

Now presenting the Īsumai script. This is essentially an extensive reworking of the script of an otherwise long-scrapped conlang. I am afraid that the examples given in the first post are now barely relevant at all; in the days since I posted that, I've done a lot to change it. There it was written ...

You and me both. Of all the things I miss about college, the library was the most surprising. I pretty much miss everything pretty desperately right now. I find myself wishing I could ungraduate. And wow, thanks for the summary, Sal! I'm not going to focus on diachronics just yet, but that sort of ...

Do you have any good book (or article, or whatever) recommendation on the diachronics of any of these (especially Old Irish)? I found this with a bit of Googling, but IE historical linguistics is a vast swamp of confusion for me (as someone whose effective specialty is the synchronic morphophonolog...

Do you have any good book (or article, or whatever) recommendation on the diachronics of any of these (especially Old Irish)? I found this with a bit of Googling, but IE historical linguistics is a vast swamp of confusion for me (as someone whose effective specialty is the synchronic morphophonology...

Badass. Brain-melting, but badass. I've thought about something a bit similar for a language I've been tinkering with, but never got anything that I could wrap my head around. I'm digging what you're producing, though I too wish that there were diachronics to go along with this. Also, liking the wo...

Morphophonology part #2 More o' moras Serial moraic adjustment in morphologically complex environments So I left off on the last post without talking about what happens when more than one mora-adjusting morpheme occurs in sequence. I was considering making this more complicated than I am, with cons...

I wish I knew! Unfortunately, Aymara is a near-isolate; its only living relative is Jaqaru, which is the exact opposite of helpful for figuring this stuff out, since Jaqaru is even weirder (in essentially every regard; you should see its assorted series of affricates at PoAs between alveolar and vel...

Could also do reasonably powerful magic with significant tradeoffs---like doing any magic takes years off the user's lifespan.

What did you get yourself into :D Cool, though. I didn't know languages went to such lengths... Fun to read. They do! I've been working idly on a summary of Aymara morphophonology directed at conlangers (it's got both complex mora adjustment processes, like what I'm absconding with, and intramorphe...

Morphophonology part #1 Mora phophonology ha ha look at my stupid wordplay There is a great deal of fuckery with vowel moras in Arrakum. This is directly inspired by the many hours I have done making ??? faces while trying to analyze Aymara mora adjustment in Optimality Theory (I said people could ...

I've been pretty burnt out on working on Eresic languages for quite a while now, so I'm starting a new major project with the hopes that I'll eventually become un-sick of Eresic and finally write the posts on historical syntax and whatnot that I've been promising for years. This is a scratchpaddy th...

T'anūbiš. Arrakūmdē iwētam ūmbiš.
/t'anub-:iš arrāk-$um-:de-: iweta-&m umb-:iš/
I write. I know how to speak Arrakum.

Is it an Athabaskan language?

It's from the first of those (PNG), isn't it?

Martuthunira?

Just a phoneme inventory and some other tidbits of the very Akkadian-inspired thingummy I've been idly working on: labial alveolar palatal velar uvular glottal nasal: m n ŋ stop: p b t d k g q ʔ ejective: t' k' fricative: v s z ʃ x l. fric: ɬ~θ trill: r approx: l j w vowel: a e i u a: e: i: u: ai au...

I dont read much fiction these days, but one that I really enjoyed was Susanna Clarke's "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" - I thought that the mixture of rgenecy era and celtic folklore was a very original new setting for fantasy. Also Anne Rice's Vampire books are in many ways fantasy - I enjoyed t...

http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/naduta/14.png Yhu-ya trateh pemuudan khusun birhiemu man, hurinun yata putheninta mi-ya mhey gi kabay tu rinmumu. Yhurismherta upuhigarmu-buru aru awunurta thas upurmu-buru. Asay Nadutah sadah tu ya runurena day awunrey yurmu! It is true that it is sometime...

Mó cótoqa'a cótoqƛa'. E šáqara kwá ma ƛáša'a ma čilása'a. Tehtéh qeqésine kwa cocótoqƛa' e nóhni'e. [ˈmuː ˈtsʰuːtʊqɑʔɑ ˈtsʰuːtʊqtɬaʔ | ɛ ˈʃɒːqɑɾɑ ˈkʷxʷɒː mɒ ˈtɬʰɑːʃaʔɑ mɒ tʃiˈlɑːsaʔɑ | tɛxˈtʰɛx qɛˈqχɛːsinɛ kwɒ tsʊˈtsʰuːtʊqχtɬaʔ e ˈnʊχnɪʔɛ] A desert is very dry. It never rains nor snows there. I hav...