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Hey folks, I’m trying to build an ergative conlang, and I want to make sure I understand the concept before continuing, so here is what I have so far: intransitive verb: (1) be.happy[-3.SG] man-ABS The man is happy. transitive verb: (2) love[-3.SG] man-ERG mountain-ABS-PL The man loves the mountains...

I was surprised to see that German and Hebrew have fairly similar phoneme inventories—apart from some minor things…

Nožak enā belvis kadjeç khaceþu, kyr pedaj ta gaţy swiekdu. Braikī čy laztaiso belvis freðirfes dježacht.
I always wanted to use my languages, but I never quite succeeded. I should do easier languages I think.

Jeţ charajeni belving rotvenç po kire fargja goreç sçeloþu. Po pyoržo vo ešto dereç…
OK, I decided to return to conlanging and work on Fargo again. And maybe finally learn it…

eçpeprelt - to unravel (from peprit - chaos and eg-[...]-elt - to un-[...])

next: to vaccinate

ciek, m: dance
cieket: to dance

next: consciousness

Fargo:
rēsuk (masc.) - failure (from: ōsuk - success)
rēsukt - to fail

next: suspicious

A fresh example of free order: 1. Я тебя люблю = I love you 2. Тебя я люблю = I love defintely you [not her/him] 3. Люблю я тебя = Yes, yes, I love you, stop this rot 4. Тебя люблю я = poetic I love exactly you 5. Люблю тебя я = poetic I definetly love you And what's the remaining "Я люблю тебя"? T...

Maknas wrote:Anyone have a guess for the plural of лев?

...львы?

In German I could think of:
Lesesessel
/"le:z@zEsl=/ reading armchair

or:
Rokokokokotte
/"ROkokokokOt@/ rococo call girl

Greetz, Gaspard

More than half the grammar is devoted to syntax; this is partly to serve as a good example. [...] I still see very cursory descriptions of syntax-- a couple of paragraphs on word order and relativization and that's it. Hopefully the Axunashin grammar will show that syntax is as rich a subject as mo...