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They sing. But they have vocal chords and the instruments they play include a keyboard with 20,061 sounds, toys with sound (all are plush or vinyl PVC), a keyboard instrument utilizing air bulbs with reeds under the keys for the different pitches, recorder like reed flute with reed tube instead of ...

Next word: legal guardian (someone who is responsible for a "minor" but is not necessarily related to them) Lirsh (a descendant of my first language I posted a while back on this forum) has: pidiyáyan /pɪdɪj'ɑːjən/ - lit. „child caretaker“ - refers to the (de facto) guardian of the child. Also mean...

These are some very good links, thanks Lambuzhao. My favorite part of conworlding is learning about stuff. I am afraid that I will feel compelled to do some sort of elaborate conbiology at this point, and it will take me a lot of time to get this world to a coherent state. I have already started pl...

These are some very good links, thanks Lambuzhao. My favorite part of conworlding is learning about stuff. I am afraid that I will feel compelled to do some sort of elaborate conbiology at this point, and it will take me a lot of time to get this world to a coherent state. I have already started pla...

I know Polish has w plus consonant clusters and Czech has jsem. And w in Polish is written as Ł, Which I know because I know the alphabet and a few phrases. Yeah, but #wC is extremely rare. wC is much more common in the middle of the word. In fact, I can only think of two words with #wC: „łkać“ /wk...

I can’t wrap my head around „present tense perfective“. It sounds like a contradiction to me, unless it is used to describe the future. Care to elaborate?

I’ve decided to drop the whole EM vision from the porphyroi, and to have several animal orders with varying degrees of photosynthesis (based on Lambuzhao’s argument). The „porphyrins“ got integrated into cells of most animals at a very early stage, but got discarded from most due to their marginal u...

It absolutely DOES NOT have to be some catastrophic event. It could simply be that, in some species/phyla/kingdoms of life, the porphyroplasts became more and more useless (i.e. they ceased providing secondary/tertiary nutrient efficiently,ceased antitoxin absorption, ... any number of reasons). Th...

Nannalu wrote:Can anybody do climate maps here? It's confusing me.

I cannot. I am struggling with understanding climate for my own conworld at the moment.

I won't comment much on the time scale - it seems far too short for me, especially for cellular-level incorporation, but I'm not knowledgeable enough except to point to chloroplasts' and mitochondria's billion-plus years - but the fungus infecting multiple species seems odd. What are the chances mu...

I think the biggest issue with collabworlds is congruence. Often there is no leadership or filtering, and the world becomes a patchwork of random ideas which is unlikely to have much appeal in the long run. If the leadership is too strong, creativity gets stifled and people are afraid to contribute ...

I have an idea: for people who migrate in the same direction (so for me that would be Yrusia and maybe De Graut Bur), how about if we agree on at least a few common sound changes or other developments, as our peoples are likely to have coexisted for a while before they went their separate ways.

I have some additional ideas but I would like to check for your feedback on the above first. Personally, I think in this case less in more. The more things this fungus does, the more it becomes like any other speculative-fiction superpower. Allowing photosynthesis in human-like creatures? Sure. It'...

I have registered on the forum with the same user name. You can add me to Team 1 over there.

Some new ideas I have developed based on your feedback: During an Ice Age, early humans used the ice sheet to arrive to an archipelago that was otherwise very hard to access. After the Ice Age ended, they became isolated. On one of the main islands, a kind of a fungus family existed which was able t...

At least for Team 1 I'd rather if there were input from the entire team when creating the proto-language. There are things I can't do well (syntax for instance). Anyway I'll take a spot to the east of the Team 1 urheimat along the bay leading into the north-central isthmus. Hey Vidurnaktis. Are you...

Nannalu wrote:

gestaltist wrote:

Nannalu wrote: NW or NE? That small archipelago?

Here:

That's a very big area. I'll place you on the coast.

Can you put me on the islands closer to Yrusia instead? Thanks.

From this thread: http://aveneca.com/cbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=4452 I did the numbers to get stars with 0.6 solar luminosity and 0.05 luminosity, respectively. I got a G9V and a K8V, which are yellow and orange dwarfs. Compensating for the increase in summary mass to give planetary year of 0.75 earth...

Nannalu wrote: NW or NE? That small archipelago?

Here:

I’ll take the coast and the islands to the North.

Do I see it correctly that Team 1 is in a more or less moderate/mediterranean climate zone, whereas Team 2 in subtropical/monsoon type?

why did Germanic languages develop such a complicated vowel system in the first place? Reinterpretation of vowel length? I am more interested in the economy of that change. People are lazy creatures and they don’t tend to complicate their lives if they don’t have to. Given the prevalence of simple ...

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...

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?

I think we should rename the topic to „origins of «y» in French“ at this point.

My question: why did Germanic languages develop such a complicated vowel system in the first place?

Team 1: Neon Fox, De Graut Bur, gestaltist Team 2: Nannalu, Pogostick, Newt I’m in under the condition that we will agree upon the cultural context beforehand. Conlanging without pragmatics is bland. I think it would be best if the two daughter languages/families were set in differing geographical/...