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Sounds interesting. Have you already thought out how that active / passive contrast (is it a dual contrast?) on nouns and verbs works? A little bit. So far, it changes how case marking works (active nouns are unmarked for agency, passive nouns are unmarked when acted on) and some derivational marki...

ħonse'ni wempi'e : island, mesa; literally "land that stands alone" Sorry if you mentioned that elsewhere - what's the name of your conlang? It looks like it's poly? I haven't really named it yet; I've got it under the working title A'broe ("spoken"). I hadn't thought of it as being poly, but I'm s...

Lyra wrote:Is this feasible?

ʔ/ŋ/_#

~Lyra

I've seen at least one natlang example of ʔ > ŋ syllable-final, but conditioned by a following consonant. This doesn't sound too weird to me though, depending on what other finals are like.

ħonse'ni wempi'e: island, mesa; literally "land that stands alone"

Next: overseasoned (food)

Or something like that. That's the most (and the most complex!) that I've tried to write. clawgrip, I saw you reference an "isolating languages" thread. Can you give me the appropriate link? agh bhekh dhe' bhu~ conlang phu'! And I like your conlang! http://www.vgfun.net/lee/langpage/scripts/himmasw...

It's a hamsa I got for graduation, and I like to know what things say if I'm going to carry them around. Thank you!

Hey folks. Could someone who speaks Hebrew take a look at this and tell me what it says? Thanks much.

I don't remember making these, but my long-neglected language Rudan has a set of words made with a semi-productive morpheme that means "used for magic". Examples: erekritab "spellbook" < kitab "book" erekristi "wand" < kisti "stick" erekriric "chalice" < kiric "cup" erepruraś "cauldron" < puraś "cau...

Gesendet.

Apparently Danish is harder for me to understand in writing than in speaking, which makes the opposite of sense.

Into: English, German, Latin
Out of: English, German, Platt, Danish, Dutch, Latin, Spanish, French, Polish, Czech

I will have limited internet access from the 15th to the 28th, so I would prefer not to go in that period, but I can if it works out that way.

According to my Armenian teacher (who has also studied linguistics, so she's probably not making things up like native speakers often do), the copula / auxiliary verbs always comes third in declarative sentences.