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No, that's a version that predates 1.0. But it still handles Unicode. Maybe it broke in version 1.0.

Version 1.2 is found:

https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi ... ng&P=45077

http://conlang.mizinamo.org/awkwords-1.2.zip

It seems highly unlikely that it is a translation. The open portion of the Norwegian version is about romantic love. The Klingon text, however, and I am certain the words are Klingon, even if I don't know enough to tell whether it is grammatical or not, mentions several fictional entities from the S...

I don't speak Klingon, but I have some resources on my computer and TKD and KGT, and I tried to identify morphemes. I haven't gotten far yet, but so far it seems most of it could be Klingon. Here are possibilities that I have found: 'a' verb suffix type 9, interrogative noun suffix type 1, augmentat...

@zompist:

My plan is to have one word that refers to physical size, and a second word that is vaguer. You have given me food for thought. Maybe the vaguer word will encompass importance. I have to think about it.

nyana – algorithm, (computer) program, function (mathematics/computing)

My conlang is a loglang and polysemy is strictly forbidden. Well, there's your problem right there. If you mean you want to reduce synchronically opaque polysemy (like 'trip' = 'stumble', 'travel'), fine. But languages are built upon polysemy. If you think it can be done, you're probably either not...

kyanki – refrain from, not do

sokyo – helium
pasi – bronze, brass, copper alloy

The story behind my question is this: I have been reading about Natural Semantic Metalanguage . One of the primitives in it is glossed with the word "big". I haven't seen "large" contrasted with "big" in this context, but "large" isn't mentioned as an alternative exponent of the primitive either. I ...

What is the difference (if any) between "big" and "large" in English?

I'm not a native English speaker. I know they are at least near-synonyms, but I want a more precise and accurate understanding.

For "later today" you could use the term "hodiernal future", and for "earlier today" you could use the term "hodiernal past". Since you describe the "perfective" as "completed action", I guess you mean "perfect" or "completive": Past perfective: The man ate the bird. Past perfect: The man had eaten ...

Some things that may be of interest: http://www.griffith.edu.au/humanities-languages/school-languages-linguistics/research/natural-semantic-metalanguage-homepage http://tokipona.net/tp/ClassicWordList.aspx this thread contains more: http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=36614 frequency lists: ...

Janko Gorenc wrote:Please you tell me what is name for numbers from 5 to 10?

I don't have them.

I haven't yet decided what base the language should use, possibly base-4 or base-12.

Here are the first four numbers of Log-13a:

/du/ "one"
/kʰe̞/ "two"
/tʰäj/ "three"
/ʔäw/ "four"

Question: Is it the possessor noun or the possessed noun that gets put into the construct state or marked for the possessive? If the construct state were used only to indicate possession, then it could just be called a genitive case marking, could it not? Is the construct state used for anything ot...

I haven't received any answer to my e-mail. I used the address found on Awkwords' help page, it is possible that it is wrong.

The new site DID came, and it contained a newer version of Awkwords (1.2) that had better support for Unicode. Then the new site went down and has remained down. The old site has not been down as far as I have noticed, unless it was a short time at the same time the new site was up. I just wrote an ...

få hundar "few dogs" - färre hundar "less (fewer) dogs" - minst (minst antal) hundar "least (fewest) dogs" lite vatten "little water" - mindre vatten "less water" - minst vatten "least water" små hundar "small dogs" - mindre hundar "smaller dogs" - minst hundar "smallest dogs" de små hundarna "the l...

I think "minst" covers both "least" and "fewest". There are, from what I've heard, languages that conflate "many" and "much" and also "few" and "little". I think "minst" is the superlative of both "few" and "little". Google Translate translates "fewest dogs" as "minst antal hundar", and as a native ...

I use spreadsheets and HTML-files. I have one spreadsheet file containing all possible syllables, where I keep track of all monosyllabic morphemes. My conlang has self-segregating morphology, which I achieve by having each syllable assigned to one of two sets, A and B, and then each morpheme has the...