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I don't know if it contributes to the discussion, but recently I discovered this altlang: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/NiwEnglisc

Its premise is the evolution of Old English towards modern German.

I request some help from any Lojbanists who may see this :) I am making a presentation on conlangs, and I make a passing reference to Lojban. I mention that is an engineered/logical language, but I also want to show the people what is this all about. The best way is to present some 3 or 4 exemplary ...

In several Wede:i sources I have found variants of the same word regarding the sound 'ng' The sound can be written either as ng, ŋg or just ŋ. For example, the name Ge:ŋgun is also to be found as Ge:ŋun It's easy to dismiss the spelling "ng" as a simplification of the latter, however a distinction b...

An here's another question.

Is anywhere in the Metaverse or the Almeopedia any other trace of a Methaiun/Monkhayic language other than Methaiun and Kebreni in the Kebreni language page?

'I would hardly believe' is not based on the analysis of the above words. It is based on my native-level knowledge of Greek, study of ancient Greek and first-hand experience of some Greek dialects. I must note that my knowledge is not scholarly, but if there was an evolution of /l/ -> /ts/ I would h...

A lot of /ts/ in names seems to occur as a replacement for /l/ ... e.g. Speliotis appears also as Spetsiotis, Karakolios as Karakotsios, and so on. Although I am not an expert of ancient Greek, etymology or the greek dialects, I would hardly believe that /ts/ is a reflex of /l/. Speliotis (spelia =...

Good work Zompist... although I noticed that you accidentally deleted the wordlists of Caizu and Curiyan. An a question for some other words... Cadhinor oisireica . Can it be from oizisi 'steal' and reica 'flow'? Another one is tauos translated as 'goodness' but in this one i can't find any Cuezian ...

What? no reply still? aw :oops: Anyway here is another (somehow relevant) question: the Cadhinor lexicon contains a word derived from Cuezi 'biboduos' (chaos, pre-creation). I can't find that word, or anything similar, in the Cuezi lexicon. The only recognizable Cuezi element is the prefix bi- 'befo...

How about 'znakora elenice'?

I found several Cuezi words in the PE derivations table which do not correspond exactly to the Cuezi lexicon, or are missing. The words I found so far are: lake: aēti (āeti in lexicon) river: yēore (yeōre in lexicon) vomit: xupuê (no such word or 'vomit' in the lexicon) weak: rîsi (no such word in t...

I don't know if this is related to the redoing of the Atlas, but the Cuzei .gif map has disappeared from the Cuezi grammar

One more note: in the pE wordlist, there are some reflexes that occur only in Cuezi and Cadhinor and not in the other 3 exemplary languages. Such roots īl 'that', ktods, negnes etc.

Although their reflexes in the lexicons aren't marked as 'K', how safe is it to assume that these roots are K-C?

I attempted to translate the names of the Cadhinorian rulers at http://www.almeopedia.com/Caďinorian_rulers but I failed to find the meaning of several elements. :) For example, what is the origin of the element er- in Erbelaica, and what is the suffix -vileas in several of the names? As for bes- in...

Some other questions. In the Kebreni lexicon there is a Methaiun name Ȟaskumi > Keb. Ḣazum. However the name derives from Methaiun ɣask. Shouldn't it be *ɣaskumi? Is it a slip? Secondly, we have the collective word wunu for 'government'. The word for leader (singular) is 'wun', or perhaps 'wuni' (Cu...

The Cuezi lexicon has entries of words classified as 'Karazi-Central'. They have cognates in both families, but there is no trace of them in other Eastern languages. Can we speculate why this happens? Can we suppose that Karazi-Central is an Eastern superfamily with a 'last common ancestor' called p...

That's a sound change— raising of an unstressed vowels before a nasal Now you mention it, how stress works in Cuezi? At the risk of annoying Philip Newton, I'll give you these... they're not typos but I can't reconstruct the reasons for them and the -co, especially, looks wrong. So you can go with ...

I am forcing myself in a mental exercise, such as memorizing the declinations of Cuezi ;) While I had not much trouble learning masculine and neuter (one exception was usol u co whereas I'd expect usolco), the feminine nouns seem mostly illogical to my poor mind :oops: Nouns in -a decline perfectly ...

Strange. Thanks

I did, and it gives the lacking versions, at least in "Cuzei" and "Methaiu". Google didn't return 'Methaiun language'. So pity

Indeed, I provided the transcription

I remember editing much of "Cuzei", "aurre", "Methaiu", and "Meťaiun language"

I still haven't understood the process in which you restore the articles.

4. Greek Οικουμένη which is a name for the inhabited world, and means 'she who is inhabited'. I don't know whether the particular name was the standard name for 'world' in the Greek of that era. I have seen the word in modern times only in poetic context. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumene In any ...

So, may I consider my recent article on Obenzayet permanently lost?

I noticed some discrepancies between some Wede:i words mentioned as sources in the Axunashin lexicon, and the words in the Wede:i lexicon itself. For now, I can recall the entry zurte f lust [W. zurtaa 'desire, love'] While the Wede:i lexicon has zu:rtau ‘want-take’, i.e. desire, want; love (sexuall...

Another good point would be the interactive historical Atlas, or the Timeline in the Almeopedia.

Also, Almeopedia browsing (and contributing) would do good