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I like Elkarîl and Flaidish.
Elkarîl mostly because of the writing system--I never in a million years would have come up with writing based on pictures of faces.
Flaidish because it's similar to English phonologically while being utterly unlike English in grammar.

Acid Badger wrote:

CatDoom wrote:

Nortaneous wrote:Spoken in Vanuatu?

Yes

Spoken by fewer than 1000 people? Fewer than 500?

Edit: Whoops, just realized that probably falls into a what-to-Google kind of question. Just ignore me.

(DISCLAIMER: This post is based mostly just on the relevant Wikipedia article .) It doesn't seem to me that a logophoric first-person pronoun would be needed. "He thought that he went" and "You thought that you went" are ambiguous as to whether the "he"s and the "you"s are the same; "I thought that ...

Like if a Qing Chinese scholar wrote a grammar of English. "The barbarians' language expresses this or that..."

Araceli: I don't remember, but twice as long as a regular grammar since I wrote a 'straight' grammar first. Hmm. This might be what Dhekhnami needs. If there was ever a language that needed a highly biased and normative approach, that's it... "This feature of the Masters' language only serves to pr...

Another is that the names of the numbers in the grammar are post-Bokugo. Very possibly he (or others) introduced a new notation and some new number names, which would make the system easier to use but also require a good deal of adaptation for those who knew the previous system. So, for example, th...

I'm not quite getting how multiplication could have been a new thing to them. 'Cause I'm looking at the Wede:i numbers, and multiplication is kind of built-in, right? To say "twelve," you have to say "two sixes." Is that kind of multiplication okay by the priests, and Bokugo is just the first guy to...

/m n ɲ ŋ/ m n ñ ŋ /p t c k q/ p t c k q /px tx cç kx qh/ px tx cx kx qx /ts tɬ tɕ/ ts tł tś /dz dʑ/ dz dź /b d ɟ g/ b d j g /f s ɬ ɕ x h/ f s ł ś x h /v z ʑ ɣ/ v z ź ǵ /w r l j/ w r l y /ā ā: á á: à à: ī ī: í í: ì ì: ū ū: ú ú: ù ù:/ a ä á a̋ à ȁ i ï í i̋ ì ȉ u ü ú ű ù ȕ And if two letters come toget...

A wild sentence appears! (because I was bored) http://i.imgur.com/lW2Pt8I.jpg aȣ dato ιa cȣambe cȣαpyi na vabo lȣ bαpȣ na tebα. aȣ - every dato - human (W.V.5.) World>Animate Things>Rational>Man (i.e. human) ιa - is copula, present tense cȣambe - born (adj.p.AC.I.3) Corporeal Actions>Secondary>Bring...

Nah, that's just the result of what happens when I try to write quickly. Not a tendency of the script itself, just of the conlanger.

Since you've all been good little boys and girls, I have a present for you:
Hé 'alímo "the numbers" (1-10)


Also, clawgrip: I can't get the new font from that link. I don't know if it's just me, or what.

Although, one thing: HU did not make its way into the font. Could you please fix that?

Ah, so like Sequoyah's "talking leaves"? You can read about them here ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah#Creation_of_the_syllabary ). Exactly. I may make that the word for a sheet of paper now... I hope you'll forgive the presumptuousness but I went ahead and made a font of your script for you...

I sort of imagined it came about as a result of "All these people we've been trading with have this. We should come up with one."

I will do that when I have more words to write for you.

I shouldn't have said "ornamental." It's actually more basic. It's more angular. One might use it for carvings, or (eventually) printed type, as in books.

There's also a slightly more angular, ornamental-type version that I didn't bother posting. The major difference is that fa, wa, sa, & la look like they're on an LED display, and then it builds from that. I figured that would be either the carved-on-walls/typeset version, and the one I posted is wha...

So, my latest project is a vaguely Polynesianish thing which I have called (for the moment, possibly) Senin . I have some words and some grammar lined out, but nothing I'm proud enough to show in public yet. That being said, here's the syllabary, 'eleta Senin ( 'eleta "writing; to write"): http://i....

I had intended to do it, but have been otherwise occupied with school-type things.
I have an chunk of free time starting in about 3 hours, so perhaps I'll take a look then.

I was quite amused that you used my recording. Wasn't expecting that. Although you narrowly escaped hearing the good Baron's "singing," which might have imperiled your and your listeners' ears.

Ubykh: /tʂʼanə wəzbjan/

Question re: sound changes. In your list of changes, under Rhotic Pharyngealization, you have: /pʕ tʕ ʧʕ kʕ/ > /pˤ tˤ ʧˤ q/ /pʰʕ tʰʕ ʧʰʕ kʰʕ/ >/pˤʰ tˤʰ ʧˤʰ qʰ/ You have a pharyngealized /t/ there, and I can't figure out what happens to it. If it's meant to be part of the final product, there's not a...

A1: Bedroom A2: Laundry room A3: Kitchen A4: Living room A5: Dining room A6: Den A7: Foyer/Front hall (the former only when one feels fancy) A8: Master bedroom A9: Master bathroom A10: Closet A11: Bathroom A12: Garage B1: Bedroom B2: Bathroom B3: Hall B4/B5: Kitchen ('cause they're connected, not se...

I found the table I copied down the first time:

(M, L, C, F)
Absolute zero = 0 = 67.4 = -273.15 = -459.67
Salt mixture = 67 = 10 = -22.22… = -8
Freezing = 73 = 5.3 = 0 = 32
Pleasant temp. for humans = 79 = 0 = 22.22… = 72
Body temp. = 83.2 = -3.3 = 37.77… = 100
Boiling = 100 = -17.4 = 100 = 212