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First time back in a while, glad to se this is still going along! I'm concerned that the resulting syllabary will end up with more in common with Japanese kana systems than I'd like Then might I suggest avoiding the direction altogether. Maybe you can consider something along the lines of what devel...

Languages of Canada Chipewyan — both Ɂ and ɂ. Dogrib — both Ɂ and ɂ. Kootenai — ʔ only. Musqueam language — ʔ only. Nootka — ʔ only. Slavey — both Ɂ and ɂ. Nitinaht — ʔ only.Thompson — ʔ only. Lushootseed Squamish language, where it is usually represented as ⟨7⟩. Romanization of Hebrew Biblical — b...

The glottal stop as a letter actually has Unicode upper and lower cases: Ɂ and ɂ respectively. The IPA sound - /ʔ/ - is yet another value. I did not know that, but I don't think I should be too surprised. Are there any languages that use these in daily orthography? I'm going to stick with the <'> a...

hwhatting wrote:

din wrote:next: bull

Tautisca: tórus "bull" (yes, cognate with Latin taurus)

Next: such

In Nawi: da'a /'laʔa/ -- such (pronoun as in such a situation)

Next: to float

English sort of does this, but you risk some lexical shifts sometimes. Suffixes like -less or -free are frequent. We could say a man is emotionless or without emotion. We often call drinks sugar-free or baked goods gluten-free when without sugar or without gluten would be roughly equivalent. Chinese...

I've noticed that I've hit a fair deal of trouble in word derivation for Nawi. Now, I'm not going to scrap the project since I like it a fair deal, but I've revised two things, one a little bit, another a fair deal. I still plan to treat Nawi as a proto-language. The first thing that was slightly mo...

well, what I find nice is that it resembles a natural language in every aspect. Some of its phonotactics are found in the Cretan and other dialects of Greek. Another thing I have to observe, consider using postpositions instead of prepositions, because your syntax is often head-last, in which postp...

Okay, let's keep moving! I've got a bit of a pump on, so let's type! Today I'm going to describe the way content questions in Nawi work along with the basics of relative clauses, though the two topics are essentially unrelated. Relativazation and How most of This is Really Nominalizing Phrases Relat...

There's a chinese conlang group on facebook too if you like: https://www.facebook.com/groups/conlinguaphiles/ It's pretty young (like a month or two) but I think it should be decently active. As for necroing, C programmers got to see some epic necro this past week: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!...

Hoping to kick myself in the pants a bit here and reboot. I've been slagging because I needed to get school stuff in line, but hope to keep moving! Today is a quick and easy update, and at least one person will be happy. Janko Trigger: We got numbers The numbers in Nawi follow a decimal system with ...

Following up from the stress stuff I said before, Wikipedia does a solid summary for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varieties_of_Modern_Greek#Phonological_features I think you could also have fun with the dark /l/ trend as well, since it would be a fun way to reintroduce either /w/ or /u/. It wo...

SoapBubbles wrote:to polish, scrub away stains

Nawi : miku -- to polish, to grind | Comes from the m.kw root indicating grinding, fine grained things like sand, reflections, and white or brightness

Next: epiphany

Hello! This looks interesting so far. I like the multiple copulae. Thanks a bunch. The multiple copulae was one of the few things I've done purely for fun in Nawi so far rather than trying to work with the idea of binaries. I was wondering, for purposes of assigning stress in Nawi, do the trochaic ...

Next: rope burn (along with rope if you don't have it) Nawi: hwasa usoma -- ['xwa.sa 'u.so'ma] -- lit rope-red xwasa comes from the root hw~s~ which deals with long things, pulling, etc. I will outline it in a future Nawi post for fun. Soma is inalienably possessed to form a new noun that intrinisc...

I like seeing extensive use of reduplication in conlangs. Looks good. Thanks! It's a fun feature. Thanks for poking in too! Sorry for my slow response, on a wacky schedule and didn't see your post when I was writing my last one becuase I pecked away at it for a couple hours. ============= One small...

Today's update is mainly going to focus on lexical patterns and hit some cultural notes. I want to look at two root patterns, and hammer some vocab out. I hope to eventually edit the first post to have a link to a lexicon, a more formal grammar/language description, and a listing of particles or lex...

I've decided to do a smaller update today, and instead of focusing on a certain grammatical topic I'm shifting pace and focusing instead on a syntactic process and describing what it does for various words. That process is one of my favorites in linguistics in general and it is Reduplication redupli...

Okay, so I took 20 days off, I want to reboot this with a little look into "prepositions" and adjectives in NPs. The application of the two in an NP is unremarkably very similar to each other, but this section at least allows for a bit more depth to be seen in Nawi. Preposition Like Structures Prepo...

Travis B. wrote: next: spray

Nawi : pase [pa.sε], verb from the p-s root that deals with scattering, dispersal, mist, etc

Next: intrusive

The noun class thing looks fun. As soon as I saw it I was hoping you were going to pull a Navajo and put lightening in the class associated with the highest animacy, along people. On that note, is there an implied animacy hierarchy here, and will that reflect itself in the verbal system where if I m...

I like this idea! Sound Tendencies 1. Tendency to 4 vowel systems. Sometimes it is a vertical /a ε o i/ or a triangular /a i u/ with some unrounded central vowel 2. Stops tend not to make a voicing/secondary articulation, namely I'll tend to have /p/ but nothing else there aside from nasals 3. Inclu...

alynnidalar wrote:

jal wrote:

clawgrip wrote:It as much a non-video game as a video game can possibly be.

Yeah, but it's still a video game .

"Video", yes, but I remain unconvinced on the "game" part. "Esoteric torture device" seems to fit better.

Some people like that kind of "game"

Clawgrip got my intent on that one. I find the notion of that game pretty funny in itself.

While it could be a joke, I honestly didn't mean it like that. I've loved C for a while and been on a particular kick of it as of late, so it was the first thing that came to mind. Yeah, but, come on, this is a language forum, not a programmer's forum, so you kinda failed the Turing test here ;). I...

And how is C a language? Well, it's a programming language, so at least that can be explained as a somewhat unfunny joke... While it could be a joke, I honestly didn't mean it like that. I've loved C for a while and been on a particular kick of it as of late, so it was the first thing that came to ...