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Oh, and I'll vote for Mohawk. Uh? Iroquoian is cool, everything is a verb, I mean everything :o OK, no labials is pretty weird, seeing as they're usually the first sounds babies make (are they?) and so ought to be the easiest of consonants? Yeah, and did you see the consonant clusters? */ -Ɂtskhɹj-...

In general, loanwords are very poorly controlled for by most comparative linguists working with East Siberian languages (of whatever stock or mesh) -- IMO at least! This is a matter which bugs me about many long range comparison attempts. Most of these people don't really compare languages; they me...

So, digging the Language map, better than the old one. Secondly, did the Sainor in the last version control so much of the Southern littoral? Some copy-editing: - at -4000 one line just begins with "complicated." I assume there's more - at 1525, you have "buld" instead of "built" - At 2538 you have ...

This is great. Will get back with more substantive comments later. Do appreciate your mapping of the Cuzeian understanding of the ilii-ktuvok wars, although I previously got the sense they were more mythical then you seem to portray them. Is this really a "glimpse" of the wars, or more a guide for d...

No, it just means you don't find cliques (like aristocracies or gangs) who make up their own slang. Language change doesn't does distinguish aristocracies or gangs; in human cultures it can distinguish what school you went to or what neighbourhood you lived in, or who your parents were. Language us...

finlay wrote:ʕ isn't a semivowel; j and w are because they're the equivalent of i and u in consonant form. You want the term "approximant".

Right. Sorry about that.

My conlang Alakan has a set of pharyngeals (ʕ and ħ to be precise) and I've been trying to think of interesting things to do with them, specifically, I'm trying to imagine what processes could create them from other consonants. The full set of consonants are (in IPA): Plosives: p t̪ tʃ k kʷ ʔ Implos...

Interesting on the ejectives -> voiced plosives, especially since I already intended on keeping the bilabial and dental forms as implosives. I can just have the rest of them become normal voiced stops, which then fricativize (the conlang in question has no voiced stops). Thanks!

Fantastic!

Besides the fact that Flora is most likely to use the Lúriei scale, are there any other differences about which scale? Are there, say, academic differences, one field more likely to use the other? And what about beyond Eretald?

What can one do with ejectives? I have created myself a series of ejectives ( tS_>, k_>, k_w_>) which I would like to remove.

Perhaps silviculture would be really important? Are there varieties of thales which produce fruit or nuts or something?

For a moment I thought this thread was going to contain the following question, or one very like it: "Hey, Zomp, when are you going to bring out the first Almea-themed boardgame?" FWIW the history of Ereláe* is very well suited to a Britannia-style "waves of conquest" game (though in the Ereláe cas...

What's your fancy? There's no good, up to date handbook of Tocharian (A, B or A and B together) in English, so if that's what you're after, you're screwed. If you read French, however, Pinault's Chrestomathie tokharienne is excellent (it is hard to come by, though: I don't want to describe some of ...

Mostly the conclusion that God doesn't exist. She is still a missionary trying to convert the Pirahã. No ... it was something about her watching mothers playing with their babies and how they were speaking to them - something in the way mothers were teaching their children the language which might ...

Not even bothering with fiddling with the <a> in the title. Sorry. It's here! Hurrah! Must sleep, or could read Munkhashi. Will read, and report later. Edit: The rank system is fascinating. Is that something natural in Munkhashi, or did the Ktuvoks create it? The plural simple present is described a...

roninbodhisattva wrote:

Alces wrote:I don't know if this has been posted before, but here's a grammar of Tlingit: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~crippen/papers/tlingit-gram.pdf. There's also a message board for the language here, though it's pretty empty at the moment.

THANK YOU FOR THE TLINGIT LINK.

Seconded.

zompist wrote:Yes, you've got it, congrats. I'm happy the mystery has lasted for five years, though now I guess I'll have to make something more subtle yet...

I predict... Eynelyni/Qarau and Uyse?ic.

Also, this would be a lot friggin' easier if we knew stuff about Tžuro, Mei, Fei, etc. Well unless Zompist has been hiding something all these years... Anyways, just a little something for me to help visualize. I recolored the language map to show only the highest level organization for language fa...

Yes, you've got it, congrats. I'm happy the mystery has lasted for five years, though now I guess I'll have to make something more subtle yet... There's actually about 150 cognates; a large fraction have semantic changes as well. Did you actually derive the language from a proto-lang you built? Als...

Now I really want to know what it's like to grow up a Demoshi woman, just enough information to interest me. Is it basically the same? I can't imagine that woman would engage in the same kind of fisticuffs as the men do. Also, how exact is the hierarchy in the village? Like, does everybody know thei...

All right. Slight change of topic. I got the article in a different paper, namely USA Today (somebody else showed me the article; I don't really like USA Today), but anyway, the article pretty much made it seem like a new language was being born out of nowhere, or somehow created, as the article ba...

I think the main reason why Almea doesn't have enormous colonies currently is the lack of virgin ground for Almean diseases. We have to remember, the Americas and Siberia were only conquered because of the death of 60-80% of all of the inhabitants. Nowhere in the southern hemisphere has the same typ...

A very typical Eralean phonemic inventory, but the usage of consonant mutations is fascinating.

Xurno is something like 19th-century Italy - a second-rank power in terms of economic and military prowess, but most sophisticated in the fine arts, and proud of that. I don't know. Xurno has an enormous base of people in comparison to Italy. I mean look at the cities map and you'll notice that one...

I just worry about others being able to read Unicode. I guess that might be unfounded, but I worry about it.