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I can put your minds at rest: all of this takes place significantly before both Christianity and Buddhism, so no monks of any kind are involved.

I'm doing some conworlding related to Atlantis, and have decided that, for my purposes, Atlantean civlization flourished on Earth until about 1600 BCE when their entire landmass was suddenly and violently transported to another world. Their languages represent other branches of the Atlantovasconic v...

I'm curious about the vowels. From the examples given, it would appear that parts of the Great Vowel Shift happened (e.g. [eː] > [iː]) but not others (e.g. [iː] > [ai]). I'd be interested in hearing more about the sound changes in this language's history. Also, speaking of vowels, is the language n...

But (except with a very broad definition of 'space suit') almost certainly impossible[...]it's about 80K. I.e. outside the habitat you won't live long enough to notice[...]So if possible, stay at surface level and just wear a spacesuit. A really, really, really warm spacesuit. Also (just making thi...

1 Lyra
2 Ars Lande
3 Catdoom
4 Handsome Rob

Hmm. That does make the phonology that I have seem a little implausible. Maybe it would be better as a pharyngealized verlar stop? Or just a plain glottal stop? Glottal stop would blend in with how vanilla the rest of the consonants are.

That does seem a little questionable, unless it was part of some kind of chain shift, like *q > *k > t (#3, #4) , which seems a little more plausible to me. I think I also had a chain shift in mind for *q > j (#5) , as well, going through *q > *h > j (#5) . One thing that's not clear just from the s...

Apologies for the double post. I wasn't able to find my notes, but here's what I was able to reconstruct from vague memories and the language family sketch above. Normative Imperial Irth is a very lightly fusional VSO language. Verbs are marked for person, tense and mood. Case for nouns is marked by...

And some more information: how far apart are these worlds? What sort of technology allows for dissemination of language? Are their ansibles? FTL drives? Is this one system? (I would guess not with "Antispinward" being incorporated into one of the names of the languages). How few and far between are...

So, about three years ago I doodled up this sketch in my linguistics class instead of paying attention to the intro to historical linguistics lecture. It sat on my computer for most of that time, but tonight I rediscovered it and decided to typeset it. I remember very little about the language famil...

The "problem" with con-mathematics is that, if you create and flesh out any novel system of mathematical thinking you've done actual mathematics. It's the same problem that con-philosophy, con-programming or the like—it's actual, real-world work and the fact that it's supposed to be based in a conwo...