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Zwera Neighbourhoods (c. 4000) (Culture 1) Politically, the Zwera organize themselves through the sumudas, or guilds, which administrate a particular profession across Zwera territory through departments in each city and comittees in the neighbourhoods in which the profession is prominent. Geograph...

Would you consider open sourcing this and allowing contributions through something like git? There are plenty of programmers on this board, and I for one would love to help out by contributing to projects like this. As individuals we've made various conlanging software tools over the years between d...

The Zwera will expand to the coasts of O6 and O6r (near the Ďomün, En Soki), U5 (near the Apʰɯron and Nespek), and M7r (near torco's and personak's primitives). As for their home, the Zwera can be seen as inhabiting P9.

Tough, tough choices, but since I have to pick five: Torc Sign awesome sign language with great combination of hand-, face-, and tail-based indications Slaver Language intresting consideration of the mechanical nature of the golems Nespek great allophony and consideration of speech differences betwe...

Congrats! Have to say I'm kinda jealous.

Years 2500 to 4000 (History 2) Continued from Years 0 to 2500 Picking up from the last post, the golems of Dwilocha were originally a set of isolated nomadic bands, roaming the island not in search of food but to catalogue its workings, until the Zörachok expanded into the west plain around the yea...

Zwera Inventory https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Nyy4D3vtbwE/UyvX9emxkWI/AAAAAAAABjI/I53NNnnjOWY/s600/Zwera%2520Consonants.PNG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--WwdbZf6JJY/UyvX9Srah4I/AAAAAAAABjE/fbPaAamzqOI/s340/Zwera%2520Vowels.PNG Typology Zwera has morphological pitch accent which is used i...

Verbs (Language 5) Zwera verbs have the following form: subject agreement + evidential + root + (object agreement) + (negative) + (interrogative) + TAM Agreement Verbs must agree with the class and number of their subject, as so start with the same class prefix as the subject. The may also optional...

Nouns (Language 4) Zwera nouns distinguish class, number, and case. Class and number are marked through a class prefix , while cases are marked through a case infix near the end of the noun. Class and Number Zwera’s class system has characteristics of both Bantu-style noun classes and Asian noun cl...

Phonology (2/2) (Language 3) As we go through this post, I’ll be introducing various phonetic processes and giving examples of narrow transcriptions. To simplify things, these transcriptions will only show the processes that have been described above them, and so will become more detailed as we go ...

KathAveara wrote:

Sevly wrote:/muzweꜜra, muꜜzwera, muzweroka/
/muzweroka muꜜmoxo/

Shouldn't those 'zw's be 'zʷ'?

What 'zw's?

Phonology (1/2) (Language 2) Inventory Zwera maintains the consonants of Proto-Zöra and then extends the proto-language’s labialized alveolar series to a consonant-wide series of labiovelarization. Labialization of the glottal stop is not allowed; instead, what would be /ʔʷ/ is the source of the la...

Zöra Language Family (Language 1) The languages spoken on the island—Zwera and Zörachok—are part of the Zöra language family, which Dē Graut and I have been collaborating on, and share the following features: Both languages have noun classes and mark evidentiality. Zwera has an abnormally large num...

Years 0 to 2500 (History 1) In the early years, the pre-Zörachok nightpeople arrived along the south coast, and as they spread across the island, they created golems, which were a huge help in creating underground tunnels and thus establishing the first serious infrastructure. The golems were used ...

After missing the first culture round, I'm finally getting around to doing something with my CCC land claim. This thread will detail the language and culture of the golems around P10; they call themselves the Múzwera [múzʷrʷà] and their language, Kúzwera [kúzʷrʷà], but in English we'll just say Zwer...

Lulweon
Ccuxu
Nespek
Torcs
Zalar

clawgrip wrote:

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Probably I'm too late but oh well!

Dotee meer aree tee uit nie, iet mee taden sue mevae ie nie!
/ˈdʊtsɛ mɛə arɛ tsɛ əjts njɪ ˈjɪts mɛ ˈtadə sə mɛβə j njɪ/
You're never too late when you bring your pretty scripty!

I'll take P10 with the golems, if De Graut doesn't mind. Presumably created by the nightpeople. Alternatively I'll take O11. Golems should withstand cold relatively easily, so the northern ice, unlike our Antarctica, could still maintain a civilization.

Matrix - Golems
Nydrwracu - Kuson
Ars Lande - Nightpeople
Mornche Geddick - Munkees
Zompist - Orcs

Not only are we going to do stuff like make "tell give in make" mean "to shame into charity" or whatever, but we're going to do it frequently. Ooh, this looks like it's going to be good. "ja" attributes a quality to the main argument to the verb, because it was the first free word in our 'killer pr...

Doanen mue matakae tagie sue mevae mee Facebook mue ie ue. /ˈdʊnə mə matskə ˈtagɪ sə mɛβə mɛ ˈfɛjsbʊk mə j wə/ I've realized that I feel much the same about this thread as I do about Facebook. Tee mee met mue murst doue iet mee umet sie nie. /ˈtsɛ mɛ mɛts mə mβs dəw ˈjɪts mɛ ʌmɛt sɪ njɪ/ I always w...

Gonna agree with others that the votes should be ranked, especially since my understanding was that the outcomes would be ranked, with a Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, islands type result. Everyone update your votes to rank candidates! Lyra (mainland, northland, islands, a...

Where, for example, what makes you powerful is knowledge of and relations with the local elemental spirits. The Iron Druid Chronicles, by Kevin Hearne, is an urban fantasy series which has this as a key factor. Druids like Atticus, the protogonist, can draw energy from the earth directly to supplem...

Oh yeah, I was vaguely aware of the Mistborn series but I haven't actually read it. Sanderson is pretty awesome though.

Oh no, I quite agree that internal costs of magic can feel quite natural when they imitate the internal costs of other natural things. To clarify, I think WeepingElf said it best: Does that mean that there is no supernatural "court of law" that deals out "penalties" for using magic? Yes. Does that ...