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Hydroeccentricity wrote:A is for apple, A is for Angry, A is for Arpeggio...

Sounds like the Thai alphabet, as I understand it from mildly flicking through a textbook one lunchtime at university.

M Mira wrote:I can't come up with a serious one, but plenty jocular ones like "CCCP", "Fappu Nottep", and "Cyka Blyat".

I saw 'MOCKBA' (Latin letters) on a vehicle numberplate the other day.

<nsfw> One of my favourite lines in Jennifer Fallon's "Demon Child Trilogy" / "Hythrun Chronicles" is in Treason Keep : "...he promised, as her shirt fell away, exposing her glorious pale breasts. They fell onto the scattered cushions beside the brazier." It reminds me of this clip from "Look Who's ...

Zaarin wrote:

Ryan of Tinellb wrote:It's tempting though, isn't it? What if Inuktitut is agglutinative because it's too cold to leave your mouth open for too long?

Then having such long words doesn't really make much sense. :p

But now the sentences are shorter (by the wordcount metric).

It's tempting though, isn't it? What if Inuktitut is agglutinative because it's too cold to leave your mouth open for too long?

Lulani is an Hawai'ian name. My name for the goddess Sa'imi is Caemi, which was an acronym for a particular Brazillian mining company , which makes reading that Wikipedia article quite odd. So, no, I don't rename languages. Unless someone actually complained, I guess. Could I get away with having a ...

It took me a while to work out that the index is the first post, and that it's being kept updated. My site's index page is in my sig, but the direct link to "High Lulani" is http://grammar.tinellb.com/highlulani/ I wish GitHub allowed server-side scripting so that my search function didn't have to u...

I made my first conscript in pixel art in Applesoft BASIC, on my old //e. It seems fitting that I now use my knowledge of HTML/JavaScript to bring it to the 21st century. Here it is. I had been learning the (mostly syllabic) Japanese at the time, so I made this an abugida, with 'a' as the implicit v...

"Ryan" is my first name.
"Of" is an English preposition, here used to imply association of the two proper nouns.
"Tinellb" is my con-universe. I made the name up when I was in primary school.

I remember being surprised, even after finding out the difference between tense and aspect, that English actually only has two tenses, not three (syntactically, at least). Past and non-past. Our "future 'tense'" uses an auxiliary every bit as much as the past perfect does. Wait, even with the her no...

Chengjiang wrote:

Chuma wrote:Surely this language must need reduplication.

Oddly, despite it being a form of repetition I actually like reduplication, so I'm not sure.

What about reduplication? (Sorry, couldn't resist )

I'm a born and raised Melburnian. For me, the grassy area between footpath and street is called the "nature strip". Alleys run perpendicular to streets, and can be just wide enough for a single vehicle. The idea of having an area behind the house is odd to me - although that might just be because I ...

I've got a couple of borrowings, luna moon and diru money . Bonus points for recognising which languages they come from. Ha! The answer for both, it turns out, is Latin ! Luna, probably via Spanish and into English is obvious. Wiktionary is our friend for other obscurer words. Diru is Latin (denari...

I've got a couple of borrowings, luna moon and diru money . Bonus points for recognising which languages they come from. Mica hello comes from my first ever conlang/relex. And this one's a coincidence, but it amuses me whenever I'm at an Italian restaurant and see the word salumi , because that's my...

Is it just me, or are the voiced versions actually quite nice, bm- and dn-? And the one that's a little harder to transliterate, gng-?

I'm thinking of stealing Braille for my proto-language, which got me thinking about the evolution of writing systems. There are many examples of diglossia between spoken and written languages. While none of the current tactile alphabets have been around long enough for this to be a factor, is it pla...

There isn't as much updating of the grammar as you'd expect in almost three years (hardly at all, actually), but the dictionary has been expanded. And it's online now!
http://www.tinellb.com

Do you have separate pronouns? Are the markers agglutinative, fusional, suppletive with one another?

While High Lulani does not have verbal agreement, its pronouns seem to be similar to those you've described, so probably neither of us are the first to think this way.

Very nice. I am particularly impressed with this part: ...these terms are also used to refer to the member of a restricted color set (e.g. the possible coat colors of an animal) that they are closest to. It looks like we've ended up choosing a fairly similar colour range to each other, but that's pr...

Each of my worlds has access to powers on a different plane of existence: emotional, physical, mental, and love magic. The Zhaladi and the Fezhlê would be very surprised to hear you call it ‘magic’: humans so easily pick up oscillatory (sound) and electromagnetic (sight) signals; why is it so surpri...

Lulani basically consists of enough words to translate the first page or so of my story. The longest word so far is:

kalu-pa-milami-ru-disi
ablative_marker-think-surroundings-gerund-third_person_animate_genitive
"from her being awake / because of her consciousness".

In the word "Muspel," the second syllable is emphasized. Removing the "is" may lead readers to emphasize the first to maintain meter. In song, there's a principle where excess leading syllables are softened to fit a rhyme scheme with fewer syllables. I don't know what it's called, but it applies he...

So, paraphrasing: "I just want a phonetic script where I can look at the word 'cat' and immediately hear every single production of that sound in the history of ever. Is that so difficult?"

I am impressed by this, particularly the rhyme. I feel, however, that the meter could be improved by removing the 'is' on the second line. Hel is cold, Muspel hot. But yeah, that poem is awesome. Using known terms for unknown fantasy worlds can be problematic, but I'm sure you're already aware of th...

As far as I can see, the problem with factorial number systems is the need to come up with more digits as the number gets longer. Of course, this might not be too much of a problem, even with only 10 digits, you can get up to almost 40 million. Lulani uses balanced pentadecimal. My number system I'm...