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One guess at a time, please, and no, it's not Wutun.

Theta wrote:Is it spoken in Central America?

Nope.

Actually, relatedly, what does vohpenonomae's custom rank ("N'guny") mean?

Fair enough. Although, if enough people show up, we could have a third team.

Also, I can see the Team 1 subforum.

Nannalu wrote:

ivazaéun wrote:I've not done anything like this before, but I'd like to take part, if I may?

We don't have any more space ATM but I'll drop you a PM when and if we do thanks, though!

Why not?

A mysterious native wrote:Tsa'ma Chiga Qquendya'paja tsambe ombani can'jemba pa'cco tsama zivaen'jen. Tsa'caen ñoñamba Chigaja su: "A'tatssiaven daja". Chiga tsa'caen su'ninda pa'cco a'ttatssiave da.

Sorry if this ends up being too easy or too hard... I've not done this before.

Even?

Ah, my mistake. Querubín?

Speed-reading through, a few questions I may have missed the answers to: (1) is anyone assigned to do T-2's proto-lang or was T-2 collaborative; I thought Nannalu was going to. Although he didn't say that explicitly. (2) do we have a board, and, if not, has anyone undertaken the search; Pole, could...

Well, I was figuring the larger peninsula, but sure, that'll work.

And yeah, Yruisa should be on team 1?

Hmm... put me a bit north of the protolang, on that peninsula, if you will.

Fair enough, actually. I did end up feeling a lot like I couldn't really help with our protolang's development last year... this way I don't have to. Although I do support allowing collaboration if we want to. Also, could we use the old forums? Pole?

As this is my first time: do we create a Bronze Age protolang together first, and then each team create a daughter language in the classical era? One person on each team creates a protolang for their team and the rest develop the daughter languages. The protolang is Bronze Age and the daughters are...

If nobody else, I might be able to spare some time for one of these. Never tried collablangs before, though, so I don't know how well I'll work.

Well, it's a toss-up between being a troll and suffering from an acute case of preteenitis.

Another word I find strange is oiseau in French, it uses all 5 of the French vowels. You still have a lot to learn ... There is also every word in Polynesian languages, where every syllable ends in a vowel. Birdlang.... how shall I put this? Up your standards. No, no, how about this: We've upped ou...

Birdlang wrote:ʁʷˤˡˠˣʰʱʲ

Your Honor, I ask that you find this man not guilty by reason of insanity.

As for /tⁿ dⁿ/, I find them odd as phonemes, as there are no other consonants with phonemic nasal released. I would suspect them to be the realization of a /tn dn/ cluster. Not writing <tn dn> but <tg dg> strikes me as very odd. You could justify that if it's a romanization, or if there's a good di...

It's Sar. I gave up and Googled the text.

Uh, Dagba? and where the heck did you get any information on a Sara language?

I heard one on NPR that went something like "<organization> is condemning the large numbers of civilians killed."

(Why, what did the civilians do to earn that organization's contempt?)

WeepingElf wrote:One note on the name: Avari occurs in Tolkien's Silmarillion as the name of some groups of Elves who, however, do not play a major role in the narrative.

Man, there's a group of Elves with every euphonic name in existence. You just gotta work around that.

Mbay?

That was about something completely different: the weird-attitude that some people have around here that calling a language "strange" or "weird" is Literally Worse Than Hitler TM and you're some retarded noob who still judges everything compared to English. It's okay to say a language has strange e...

Thiocyanate solutions, usually. (See the second definition.) Interestingly enough, KSCN solution is used as fake blood, and Co(SCN) 2 is used to test for cocaine. But if you soak a duck in that, it might turn into cyanide when it gets inside its body. This is not how chemistry works; more important...