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niconítoa in ca ahmocualli, auh ahmo nicmati in tlein in ōmpa mochīhua.

I'd say it's bad, but I don't know what is going on over there.

Thanks guys this was exactly what I was looking for. Cedh especially. @Vec - yeah you're right that conlangers tend towards phonological change. I too tend to lean in that direction and the whole point of this thread was to educate myself enough to create more interesting divisions in the grammar an...

Educational and humbling though this has been, no one has addressed my question.

Are there any guides or resources on development of language families and dialects that could be followed as instructions or guidelines?

Curse my thinking that was a linguistics term and I was coming off all knowledgeable! I seriously swear I've heard that in a linguistics capacity. I understood it to mean the distribution and variance of dialects within a language i.e. Maghreb, Iraqi, Egyptian etc. make up the Arabic substratum just...

Hello all, Most conlang language families I've seen have involved phonological change and orthographical variation and not much else i.e. protolang: ta: nekwi panki'i = 1) taa nipi pang'i 2) da neke: pagi'i 3) tha negwi fankiki Occasionally I've seen some grammar changes - perhaps nipakogolo became ...

This is what I've been working on all day - it's an excerpt from an oral tale telling of the founding of the modern Oumish people and the tale of their forefather - the great King Oum. Tiáchión iáberu Oum “Tiáchión tūga on-hāda butānī.” Huma ai cuáoilha iálerūna guóthenna dúirīna/dúiro ai iásnulūna...

This is what I've been working on all day - it's an excerpt from an oral tale telling of the founding of the modern Oumish people and the tale of their forefather - the great King Oum. Tiáchión iáberu Oum “Tiáchión tūga on-hāda butānī.” Huma ai cuáoilha iálerūna guóthenna dúirīna/dúiro ai iásnulūnah...

Ngumulukhu, mana khuyliwataychu kangachhika... O, Nkumulugu, you who are not deceived in the slightest... Umuzinay kuz'uq'unaqaya idulunay azisaynimitazaw I will introduce you to my family when you come to my town I-kami kwamay Adawliti Chapay My name is Chapay King of the Sky Chaniqa-cha i-yama ch...

Yavambimoa nga bumi m i bumi ibina ibingingi saingadoningi mungishimingi
javam͜bɪ̃mʲɔ̃ə ŋə bumʲ m i bumʲ ibʲɪnə ibʲɪŋɪ̃ŋʲ sæiŋʲədonɪ̃ŋʲ mũŋɪ̃ʃʲɪmɪ̃ŋʲ
I steal words, history and vocab derivation from the real world (earth) for my own world.

itimu la m iby tipatipa iyombayoa la nga
ˈidɪmũ ɻə ibʲ ˈtibʲədɪbʲə ˈijoˌmbajoa ɻə ŋa
I wouldn't think that speaking quickly is put into writing.

It has always baffled me since young age and it only occurs to me now to ask this community: How in the world did people (travellers, missionaries etc.) learn compeltely new, completely unrelated langauges with which they had no prior contact and no-one who understands the foreigners' language? With...

Ág eç rád fwoda af açha na 'ç! çcu çwagd hinwga!
ɑ: eʃ ɾɑð vʷɔ.ðɛ ɪf ɛ.t͡ʃə nə ʃ: ʃkʊ ʃʷɛð hɪnwʲə
_{with god rain horseshoe.INDEF also axe.INDEF 3PS s'truth! true PST.see.1PS lightning.INDEF}
I swear to god it's raining cats and dogs out there! I definitely saw lightning!

I can't even imagine where you began coming up with all that cultural and social context. Brilliant stuff.

Thank GOD you necro'd, more like.

Wait is he talking about my rhymes?

How would you pronounce "Chemcdzijanlecgägnmüslaacuë"?

Lama lalyu Hantu Idyaw Bidukki kangəpantay'a ba'hang garang kwələng-lyadhku. Pakapugantay'a ba lyadh parataykapayilay ka dam dyabangzi. Ma pizi itu dyabang nga-nga dyalantay Aydaw-Lidit Kaybaki. tyasawm Kayba itu Iwu ka da dukanaygugagukim dawa ka Nyatawi ay ama Idyaw Biduk kawantay'a garang. "Ukay...

The Old or Proto-Nyata Language or Nyataku dənyaytaya is the oldest ancestor of the southern languages group on the world of Maura - a giant floating island-continent - and a literary language of many southern kingdoms. It was spoken perhaps 3,000 years ago by the people of the great city-states of ...

Rumpungu-i-sawa tingilay Nidyamazamanba sumaraway Diryimaymaza patyibhi asingilay Pamungmu kakawa 'hay Yababhardti nga gamityimi palawanway rumpʰuŋu i saβa tʰiŋilai niʤamatsamanɓa sumaraβai ɖirjimaimatsa pʰaʧʰibi ɑsiŋilai pʰamuŋmu kʰakʰaβa ʔʰai jaɓabaɽɖi ŋa gamiʧʰimi pʰalaβamβai Tall grasses of oas...

Ikami kawatay Sulumu tan taytyugganilay [ikʰami kʰaβatai sulumu tʰan tʰaiʧʰug:anilai] i-kami kawa-a-tay sulu-mu tan tay-tyug-kan-ilay NOM-1Sposs speak-pasthistoric-3S Zulu-pertain NEG 3s-follow.behind-OPT-stative(ish) Oh were that my language less like Zulu Well I don't know what I was thinking las...

Much better than my first attempt. I think you're missing a trick with the no-allophones. For one you could have the velar g be an allophone of uvular G before close vowels and that would solve your pronunciation problem. Another thing is that it makes total sense for the laws of god-languages to ma...

Well in-universe none of my languages would be written with any real-world alphabet but because writing word documents with a made-up font would be insanely tedious I tend to emphasise the difference between different branches of language families by having fun with spelling as well as phonology. My...

In the Dwarfen kingdoms names often repeat - there are not that many unique names for your average dwarf - so many go by honorifics, patronymics, nicknames and so on. The famous Dwarfen warrior Kaþgan is better known to history as "Drúchðr Kúru" - the Short Warrior - for his stature (no, he wasn't s...

Niṁalak ija tu awaīwaī Aṁrīka chauja
Chiþ ír is sen resg skán America
Ma fagt Al-Amerig chánan mir

It looks like a higgledy-piggledy Native American language to me

Méj, grájvr-skin rasgŗch kjem mo-ðah mask-ðuņch. wẽ:j k̬rɑjʋ̩ɾ-ʂɪn rask̬.ɾ̩x cɛm mo-ðəχ məʂ-ðɯn̩x. Chaffe.3PS.IMP, mould.PRSPART-def this language-ACC.PL.def who NEG-give.3PP.IMP.OBL NEG-person.OBL-NOM.PL It is difficult - creating languages which nobody speaks. Mar al-anásta tog Calanan ca nac al-...