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Wow, I don't know how I could have missed that article! Thank you for linking it to me. Here are a few more specific questions, out of personal curiosity, which might make for a nice thinking exercise: >Did the invention of the printing press shine some more light on previous civilizations' (Cuezi?)...

Hi everyone! I don't know if this issue has already been addressed in the past, but here is my question: what do we know about the invention of the printing press in Almea (or just Ereláe)? As in, where it was first conceived, and when, and how it spread and changed the cultural landscape? I think i...

Zomp, is Universe Sandbox the software you used for the picture of the System?
http://www.zompist.com/drill0.htm

Thank you both, I had tried to google something but I wasn't sure of what I had in my hands, so I tried here.

Hi!
Is there someone here who can explain where does the -u- suffix seen in amā-u-ī and mon-u-ī? Thank you very much.

So, let's summarize what has been done so far: (1) "who/what" = OS -beg- / Wd -bogu- (2) "other" = OS -gog / Wd jok (3) "long" = OS -dim / Wd śim (4) ??"small" = OS -its / Wd śiya / Tz -it (5) "woman/nurture" = OS maşḍ / Wd ma:r (6) "fish" = OS ţag / Wd sak(ana) (7) "forest" = OS geŋ / Wd jen (8) "h...

What do we know about Almean Literature (principal writers, philosophical/literary movements, etc.)? Is there some webpage I should see? Thank you

I want to share with you this excellent Ancient Greek grammar:
http://cdn.textkit.net/hws_Greek_Grammar_AR5.pdf
Enjoy!

Fantastic.

What does the language spoken in Puroŋeli during the Age of Thousand Suns look like? Something like Old Jeori for New Jeori?

The phonology section of the Wede:i language page says <ng> to be taken as <ŋg> internally, so we could perhaps (PERHAPS) say that m,n + g = ng [ŋg], and ŋ + g = ŋg [ŋg]... But until Zomp decides to make this clear... (The Axunashin lexicon has <ng> as <ŋ> (ex. <yokring> for <yokriŋ>), mantaining th...

Well, the most Western-like best-sounding Skourene scale should be the one lacking F and C, or E and B. But if zomp is looking for a more exotic scale (assuming he does), the argument becomes more difficult...

Wooops! Sorry for that. Edited.

For the proto-name, I'd suggest Proto-Southern, by analogy with Proto-Eastern.

@Dewrad: I always knew that voi and noi came from the Latin ablative form vobis and nobis . Singular nouns have a similar process: rosa < rosā ( rosa ), vento < ventō ( ventus ), dito < ditō ( ditum ) cane < cane ( canis ), principe < princĭpe ( princeps ), while IV declension nouns merged with the ...

@Whimemsz
Yes, it is spoken in Lombardy.

Italian: il libro [che aveva letto] /il ˈliːbro ke aˈveːva lɛtto/ def.m BOOK-m.sg [rel AUX-imperf.3sg READ-pastpart] In Italian the the auxiliar avere meaning 'to have' used at the imperfect tense, with the past participle of the verb gives the action a meaning near to the English past perfect: this...

Keep on your nice work!

I know this thread is actually dead, but it'd be really nice to see an indipendent page for Cuoli and Jeori, or just Cuoli... they are beautiful languages, I like them very much (they have been generated from a quite simple language like Wede:i and they are as complex and irregular as Italian or Spa...

Thank you all for replying! @Basilius: I'd like to have a proto-language with very simple vowel length, but I'll consider your purposes too. That uncomprehensible sentence I wrote meant that the Waku proper dialects had characteristics (final elysion, diphthongization of long vowels ecc., I'll think...

Waku (in the second millennium YP) should: - Have vowel lenghth, represented using a macron; - Be agglutinative with some fusional elements, but generally synthetic, near polisynthetism (BUT NOT polisynthetic!); - Generate pitched/tonal daughter-langs, with a largely fusional grammar; - Have high di...

The Waku family has three possible placements: A) The southernmost cape of Peilash, which has no mountain ranges and rivers, and is a subtropical zone; B) East Twin Continent, in front of the three big islands at its east, in a Rathedaan-like climate; C) That peninsula of the Antarctic Continent whi...

That is one of my favorite alphabet among Almean ones. Waiting to have more info about it-- and on T :zh uro languages too

Hi folks! Sorry for my interruption, but I wanna say to all you that I'm gonna create a new langage family, which should be in the southern part of the Akana globe. My username on AkanaWiki is Wedeigu (you should know what it means :D ) and the language family name is Waku family. Thank y'all for pa...

Like French, in Italian this is what happens: -- 'Non mi ricordo di te' (I don't remember you), analysed as follows: io is the omitted subject (the first person is expressed by the verb) non is the negation, mi is a pronominal particle, which denotes the reflexivity of the verb, ricordo is the verb ...