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Yaali Annar wrote:Or you can say: Masculine, Feminine, Neuter, Both.

That has been my approach until now. I may keep it as per your suggestion.

Valkura wrote:If you want a hermaphroditic gender, then just call it that.

Okay. So they are masculine, feminine, hermaphrodite, and neuter.

Is there a linguistic term for a masculine and feminine gender word? Epicene. Thanks. What I get about this word in a google search is that it refers to a word that may be used either for masculine or feminine genders. I'm looking for a term that describes a word for a hermaphrodite, something that...

Is there a linguistic term for a masculine and feminine gender word?

Look for a friend and play it repeatedly. In my experience with chess variants, rules may seem to be even perfect on paper, but gameplay may reveal that it's not playable. The chessvariants website has many great ones, but it has tons of unplayable crap.

Sir Gwalchafad wrote:You are confusing the Collective with a mass noun, which are not identical.

Collective. That's it! Thanks sir.

As I think on my language, I realized that the singular/dual/paucal/plural numbers are made for human languages. The concept of the Gods is that they have different levels of individuality, so then the distinction between singular and plural gets blurred. I thought of an additional number for a coll...

Laimnil. Abilābula inalamgarolam.
Hello. I'm practicing with my new language.

Anilinolamgoldo amaleba alal. ani-lin-olamgol-do amaleba al-al Nothing-LOC-created-TOPIC is-permanent the-one-SUBJ. About wherever nothing has-been-created, exists the one. Before anything, there was the One. "alal" was originally written "abal". The word "ab" meaning "The One, number one", was fre...

First, some inworld history: The person who documented Godspeech was a Terran Argentinian named Dr. Anthony Roldán Cáceres. Dr. Roldán was born on November 01, 2024. The exact place of birth is veiled in legend, being the version that he was born in Buenos Aires the most popular one among the Cassio...

I would like to have the relative technological levels of this rouge planet and my main terrestrial world within a reasonable distance of each other, and a 12,000 year head start is a bit unbalanced. So this is your goal. I think having a civilization that lives in such hardships to be stalled is t...

Well, there's a couple of things here: first off, your phonology is impossible on every level. I'm glad actually to hear that. You only have voiced plosives and you disrupt the velar series by declaring <g> uvular. I'm considering to bring back the velar <g>. I'm finding the uvular one to be hard t...

Just a quick thought, it might be helpful to do the morpheme breakdown for your language in addition to the plain text so it'd be possible to identify individual morphemes/affixes more easily. Do you mean something like what I began doing for my first sentence?: Anilinolamgoldo amaleba abal. [ˈanil...

Since it originally was intended to be a naming language meant to be the language of the gods, I figured it should sound nice; so I chose letters that both in English and Spanish sound nice to my ear. I began it all by making a list of possible words by using: C=bdgjlmnrsz K=bdgjsz V=aeiou L=lmnr R=...

Sir Gwalchafad wrote:I can't really say anything about it without you giving at least a rough grammar of the language.

Sorry about that. I'll provide some comments on grammar later. I was just in some hurry by the time.

Obulamga or "Godspeech" is intended to be the language of the gods within my conworld. It was initially intended to be a naming language to name the characters' souls to distinguish them in reincarnation lines. As I thought on and developed it, I fell in love with it, so now is a little more than ju...

coi rodo i mi ba'o se livbai lo drata nunsnu mu'i lonu ciska bau la lojban i mi pacna lonu la lojban cu vi xamgu
Hello everyone. I was expelled from the other thread for posting in Lojban. I hope it's okay here.

I used to drink my coffee creamy and very sweet. Now my coffee is black and unsweetened. I don't like it, but I LOVE it!