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Everyone is posting verbs so I'll go with a noun! In the languages I'm creating for a friend (I still haven't thought of a name so it's codename is Bicish), the longest word is ocheszüzjanyó /ɔkɛzyʒɑɲɔ/, which means 'ashes'. Verbs in Bicish can get long with all the suffixes, but so far nothing as c...

I just got a call a few minutes ago that I finally have an hourly job! It'll just be part time at the library, but I've always wanted to work there! I think it will be a great fit for my contracting job as an editor, and maybe I can even help with donating a few of the ones I edit? But I'm so excite...

I hope you guys get things worked out soon! I can't wait for all this to be available for public viewing!

Edit: Silly me...I clicked on the link to see if the site was up and it is. So I can peruse to my heart's content! For now...

So this is pretty awesome, in my opinion. I didn't read through all of it, though, because I can't distinguish the different parts well after the phonology. I think if you organize it better, mostly grouping things together better, then more people would comment. I never gave it much thought that th...

I sent of my finished manuscript today! (Note, I edit books before they're published. I'm not published, myself, yet! But I will be!)

This will be my third one since I've started a few months ago! I am so thankful for this job, even if it doesn't pay my bills!

Naming in Drăsgaran tends to be duller than others, I think. A married woman would have three while a man will have two. Traditionally a child is not given a name until they are about thirteen years old. Until then they could be called anything from first child, second child, son, daughter, ect. In ...

You might want to look at Washo : Like your conlang, it also has a lot of tenses. The site I linked to also has a dictionary under its "Resources" section, if you're interested in Native Californian Languages. :) Oh nice! I love the idea of distant past and near past. Though I think I will stick wi...

I am not knowledgeable enough to help with this, but I am very much interested in seeing examples of this in motion. As in some charts of Proto-Wideriver and the various branches and then to some of the different daughter languages once you have things worked out.

Also, I collapsed the Hodiernal past and future tenses into the present tense. Now it it just hodiernal and present tense. Or would it just be considered Hodiernal? Your phrasing implies just hodiernal, and that seems to be the more plausible solution to me anyway. When linguists speak of categorie...

In good news, I have a name for the language now! Fenuve i Andunon. Fenuve is the noun form of the verb fena meaning to speak, and Andunon is what they call themselves. 'Children of Andul'. Also, I collapsed the Hodiernal past and future tenses into the present tense. Now it it just hodiernal and pr...

It's ordered that way to correspond to the IPA table. Nasals Stops Affricates Fricatives Liquids (e.g. r, l) also, no, you can't have pharyngealized vowels that way, all you get in the environment of coming after pharyngealized consonants is backing of vowels. Like for example /ʃˤan/, will actually...

Your inventory seems fine, with possibly your main stop series being a bit scant. /t, d, g/ seems pretty thin in terms of POAS and MOAs, especially when your nasals are broad enough to cover /m, n, ŋ/ POAs. This is true. Arranged more "normally," you total inventory appears to be: /m n ŋ/ /t d g/ /...

Then there's the issue of your phonemic inventory. I know you're a beginner, but these are still things to consider. It seems rather unnatural to have a VOICED lateral fricative, without its voiceless counterpart. Also having a pharyngealized version of a alveolo-palatal fricative is weird when you...

No, it's absolutely reasonable to treat them as one vowel in the context of timing. This is what a diphthong is. And your suggestion to fix it is a more complex yet less accurate analysis. C{a ɛ i ɔ u ai ɛi ɔu} is not equivalent to C{a ɛ i ɔ u}(i u), because the set of diphthongs in the former is m...

I have a few I can add! I would consider these languages defunct for the moment. I created them both between six and ten years ago before I knew what I was doing. (I still don't know what I'm doing! ha ha) However, I won't be changing the numbers. Drăsgarăn mo /mo/ tar /taɻ/ tayim /tajim/ sy /sI/ la...

You describe /dz/ as an allophone of /z/. So it must be that [dz] is an allophone of /z/ word-initially? As for ZHJ, maybe it's a pharyngealized voiced lateral fricative? Or maybe its a pharyngealized voiced alveolo-palatal fricative? As far as whether it's lateral; its a mater of whether you're ho...

My next step is to figure out what they call their language so I don't have to keep calling it the stereotypical name of Elven. :/ My next problem is with nouns. Right now I have four genders expanded into seven categories. Each noun is assigned a gender and whether it is animate or inanimate. The g...

Wikipedia in regards to Perfective vs. Perfect: "The terms perfective and perfect are confused or interchanged in many grammatical descriptions. A perfect is a grammatical form used to describe a past event with present relevance, or a present state resulting from a past situation." Example: I have...

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": Past perfective: The man ate the bird. Past perfect: The man had eaten the bird. Futur...

Ok. Now for more! I'm sorry for any incorrect terms! Right now my alphabet needs to be updated with some IPA figures for better understanding. I should have put the phonemic inventory in my first post. Right now it's 'simple'. The vowels are just a e i o u /a Ɛ i ɔ u/ However three vowel combination...

So...precisely what the title says. I would like some help and input in creating one of my conlangs. I want it to be natural and feel real. I have some basics of verbs down, but I'm unsure about them. I've already changed a few things up. Also, I would consider myself a babe in conlanging. I've been...