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Notsi se! Aga aiđan purulimmesta mun taustamas đaanesja tauųa śauks :) To seo mita lennuki? Yrenittampaa lajatsi enkuseemad uuojenu verbide vjeroa, sois :P It is! And I'm helping my fluency by translating linguistics questions into Sjal :) Isn't that the idea of this thread? Maybe I'll just dump nu...

Se ahresųateru on oramasa alasta uuojenu verbide vjeroat se enku inahmu vjeroa substantiivide, to rettu? Voonun seo okas on sei alastaan enjenumu niru! It's probably logical to have the ending for the plural of stative verbs be the same as the plural marker on nouns, right? I hope it isn't problema...

Leen perien oramas luet toro sedomaųi õda mesessen lennuvoŧini. Sennutsi perien oramas let uųotsi :) Orę vaimiin leja immelejaniksi đola uvenusen missadamaųa loramehka "Ovattan..." I always end up making a huge list of resolutions that I keep in my wallet. I do end up doing a lot of them :) It's be...

Ąŧad longa a-ljena tena! En sedomaideni ei sorrema rusepoidųaks śalla :) /ˈɑ θa ˈtɫɔŋ a ʔa ˈljɛ na ˈtɛ na | ˈɛn ˈsɛ dɔ ˌmaj dɛ ni ɛj ˈsɔr ɛ ma ˈɾu sɛ ˈpɔɲ dwaks ˈʃalː a/ Happy New Year! One of my resolutions is to become conversational in Shalian :) Nohi ireisanuut enu muud nousemo lęęköd runduųa s...

Allöna, ma naidi kapissu samaguųa "nouseđi leen lęęnda runduųat" Ąlihnahi njęn ąŧad śalen, sųa anduhho sę kulas loudammiusen!
Drat, I seem to have caught "perpetually changing basic elements"-itis Even being 9 years old doesn't protect Sjal from improvements!

Raunus-verbia vuulid manna njęn ąŧaa sedomaųa. /ˈɾaʊ nus ˈvɛɾ bi a ˈvuː lid ˈmanː a ˈnjæn ˈɑθaː ˈsɛ dɔ ˌma wa/ Imperatives took me nine years to figure out. Naiks ma rakisa eestasti ah-anjeen no se engameje tejesen alaso tejesen. /ˈnajks ma ˈɾa gi sa ˈɛs ta sti a ˈhan jɛn nɔ sɛ ˈɛŋ a ˌmɛ jɛ ˈtɛ jɛ ...

Nait oramasun aarutauni soineks emmo suomikenenga nousemannen eljevissit kainasti. /najt ˈo ɾa ma sun ˈaː ɾu ˌtaʊ ni ˈsɔj nɛks ˈemː ɔ ˈsu ɔ mi ˌgɛn ɛŋ a ˈnoʊ sɛ ˌmanː ɛn ˈɛl jɛ ˌvisː ɪt ˈkaj na sti/ I'm trying to make my conlang sound less like Finnish with the fewest modifications possible. Raadaa...

two-colored - anduva
multicolored - andiava

next word: flicker

It's not phonemic with minimal pairs...Some vowel-initial words have a glottal stop and some don't, sometimes due to initial consonants being lost, and it's not reflected in the spelling. This is a contradiction if I'm understanding it right. If some vowel-initial words have a glottal stop and some...

Consonants Nasals: /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> Plosives: /p t d k/ <p t d k> Fricatives: /v s ʃ h θ ð ɣ/ <v s sj h ŧ đ k> Sonorants: /ɾ l w j/ <r l ų j/į> Vowels /a ɑ ɛ i o u ø y/ <a ḁ e i o u ö y> Vowel Allophones /ə ɪ ɔ ʊ ʏ/ <a e i o u y> You're being inconsistent in your examples. You frequently transcribe...

Sjal Consonants Nasals: /m n ŋ/ <m n ng> Plosives: /p t d k/ <p t d k> Fricatives: /v s ʃ h θ ð ɣ/ <v s sj h ŧ đ k> Sonorants: /ɾ l w j/ <r l ų j/į> Vowels /a ɑ ɛ i o u ø y/ <a ḁ e i o u ö y> Vowel Allophones /ə ɪ ɔ ʊ ʏ/ <a e i o u y> Samples aųlittalle /ˈʔaʊ lɪtː ˌalː (ə)/ - they're going to the f...

miųsama

next word: shore

Mathematics are difficult. you might want to watch your english grammar there O_o Sounds perfectly fine to me as an American. Likewise we talk about "politics" in the plural but I think the rest of the English-speaking world might use the singular. mąąąu (mąą - * maal "land" + ąu - * aarl "art") ne...

veosnohu (veos, *vehos 'outer space' + nohu *nouhk 'vessel')

next word - October

töy, Old Sjal *töle

next word: downpour

Okay the next word can be titburger instead then. Is "sunbreak" an Americanism or something? I thought it meant what it sounds like: a sunbeam through the clouds.

kaelimes (from kaeli + -mes, to measure, from Old Sjal *cateli)

next word: sunbreak

key for a door: losajan
key on a piano: vaasies

next word: day (24-hour period), day (as opposed to night)

Okay, you've said your piece on Esperanto. Can we move on now? I specifically asked for this not to become a flame war about Esperanto.

I really like Sjal.

Thanks

I also like Vabungula. It may not be as fancy as many conlangs, but it is cool that it is used so much by its designer, and it got me into conlanging.

Tell me moar.

Way to take a dump on my thread, MrKrov. Find a bathroom next time ;) I mean, we're on a CONLANG board. Who cares about usefulness? I'm learning a language with a speaker population of one: me. What we do is about as useful as stamp collecting. The cool thing about Esperanto compared to other conlan...

That said, right now I've been thinking Na'vi is pretty cool (even though I've managed to avoid seeing Avatar.) Conjugation by verbal infix is kind of cool (not necessarily groundbreaking, but cool.) Same here. I actually think Avatar looks pretty stupid and I don't want to see it. But the few bits...

I hope this is the right place to post this. I'm curious to know if there are other folks out there that find conlanging fascinating in general instead of just their own creations. I enjoy looking at what folks come up with, especially more large-scale projects like Esperanto, Lojban, Toki Pona, and...