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Let's see if you guys can give me anything for the newly revitalized Knau Consonants (C): N: /m n N*/ P: /p b t d k g ?/ A: /ts) dz)/ F: /s z x~h/ R: /l r/ G: /w j/ Vowels (V) /i 1~M u/ /e @~7 o/ /a/ vowels also have a length distinction. * only appears in the coda Syllable structure: ONC O = C, (s,...

Well, I'm not theory independent and don't claim I am. I just claim, or rather want to know, if my theory is self consistent and can be used to explain and produce the English grammar. Ultimately the categories of 'core verbal argument' like accusative and nominative do not make much sense to me. M...

I would like to bump this as well. I want to work on a language with a bit of non-concatenate morphology and this would be a nice intro before I work on.

Yes, and I argued in my OP that because it is transitive it is not strictly a passive. You're making a circular argument in tandem with other people. Arguing that it is a true passive because it is intransitive, and you're citing the reason if transitivity by it being a passive. I'm arguing that th...

Also: a prototypical passive sentence is not "the mouse was eaten by a cat" It's "the mouse was eaten". That's my point, if there was no way to introduce an agent then the passive voice in English would be intransitive and it would fit the definition of an accusative language. But there is a way to...

So, would it be possible that English would still have cases and a more elaborate verb declension? If there is a possible sentence in Modern Old English, please post it... You could, I assume, take an Old English text and apply to it the various sound changes that led up to Modern English and see h...

You are missing a translation for the 3rd part of the text. Otherwise this looks pretty cool. Looking forward to seeing some grammar so I can comment a bit more than I can now.

This is a super rad language. Not at all conlangy. thank you :) I'm confused — does adding the noncompletive aspect marker to a stative verb give a noncompletive change-of-state verb? That is, does kohwokdɤ mean 'is becoming tall [not tall yet]' or 'becomes tall [has just become tall]'? Adding an a...

Yes, being a presumptious and condescending fuck tends to piss me off. Man, did you ever think that I perhaps got better at conlanging? I didn't post the thread here because I like to masturbate to my own writing in public, I put it there for critique. Azenti's been getting praise on the CBB by the...

You can always be Mexican and pronounce /χ/ 1. What are you talking about? Mexicans don't have [X] for /r/. 2. You can't pronounce [r] as /X/. You could pronounce /r/ as [X], but the other away around makes no sense at all. Learn the different between // and [] please you have been here long enough...

Alright here is my first big post in a while here goes nothing. Tense and Aspect in Kna:w Kna:w has two aspects and four tenses. The two aspects are completive and non-completive, and the four tenses are present, future, past, and distant past. These aspects and tenses are marked separately (aspects...

So after almost a year of letting this sit I have decided to make some changes. They are mainly cosmetic (meaning phonology), but I also decided to make Knaw (as it is now called) a proto-language to go with a culture in my long neglected conworld. So some of the changes that will be featured in fol...

I don't see why it would be so controversial for a germanic language to have. The some of older germanic languages had a voiceless /l/ or /hl/ cluster so it's not really that big of a stretch to get /ɬ/. Welsh developed it in a sea of languages with out sound, so why should a lone germanic language ...

Well I killed my computer the second to last day I was in Japan, so I can't take part until the new one is here.

Musashi-Sakai area? Probably not, then. But I work next to Mitaka station twice a week, including tomorrow (Monday). How long have you been here? And when are you going back? (I won't answer till the morning, as it's well past my bedtime) Yeah though me and my girlfriend get off at Mitaka station w...

finlay wrote:me too. Inokashira to be more precise.

Ah cool I'm in Iguchi, I think. I wonder if we walked past each other at all while I have been here.

finlay wrote:where are you staying?

I'm in Mitaka

/m ṃ n ṇ ɲ ɲ̣̊ ŋ ŋ̊/ /p pʰ pˀ t tʰ tˀ k kʰ kˀ q qʰ qˀ ʔ/ /ʦ ʦʰ ʦˀ tɬ tɬʰ tɬˀ ʧ ʧʰ ʧʰ/ /f s ɬ ʃ ç h/ /l/ /w j/ /i e a o u/ stress is mobile so it needs to be marked I've been struggling to find a good romanization for this for a while. example sentence (too lazy to mark stress) /mai ntapʰ humoja faʔa...

I would be ok, but I request to not be first. I'm currently in Tokyo on vacation and wont get back home until mid next week.

I'll do this with Kngau

Age: 20 Gender: Male Nationality: American State/Province/Other Subdivision: Northeast Occupation: Student Sexual Orientation: Bisexual Status: Single Native Language: English Secondary Languages: None Languages I Want to Learn but Don't Have the Time: Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Turkish, Spanish Rel...

I will post the other update later, something just came up after I posted that that is requiring my attention.

Alright so I'm going to just post the sections that had changes made to them. If a section just have examples that are changed then I won't post them but I can give you the update examples upon request. abbreviations used CL - classifier COMP - completive aspect DEF - definite F - feminine GEN - gen...

It's been a while since I've posted a picture of myself here. This one is from a year and a half ago.

WeepingElf wrote:BTW: One of our favourite quacks is still alive.

I kinda missed him being on here, he provided me with my daily dose of rage before I discovered glenn beck. You should have mentioned how Ket and the Na-Dene languages were found to be related by use of morphological comparison.