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I prefer kings and lords over democracy. (in Tormiott): Stach niâdono sen cga sauir i ruacan oimiagn porh starade /stax ˈɲɛːðənʊ sən ʔʕa ˈsowɪɹ i ˈɹwakɪn ˈʊjmjaːn poɹ ˈstaɾɪðə/ person be.single.3s NEG.3s can.3s know.3s CLAS thing-PL AUG-be.good-3p PREP country A single person cannot know what's bes...

I figured it out now. Thanks for the links!

I mean, is there somewhere where I can type in the English and get the Ancient Greek word for what I typed?

Are there any good Ancient or Biblical Greek dictionaries online?

A river?

I feel like I can't be the only person who has done this, but one of my conlangs, Ternuan, is basically Romans and Greeks stranded on an island. Doesn't sound very creative I know, but it's my most developed conlang.

What is the setting for most of your conlangs? About half of mine are set in the real world on remote islands and about half are set in fantasy/sci-fi worlds.

Nortaneous wrote:Ish i një krjev allbër xhyt.
I am a powerful Albanian druid.

Ja walaü nan jruisi Alpänivi vizän.

(I didn't know that Albanian Druids existed).

mèþru wrote:Did you look at his Caber Logography?

That was really cool as well.

In Orisiyan, many people forgot the meanings of their own names, especially during the late period of the empire. The general custom was to name children after honorable men or women, especially national heroes. It was considered extremely sacrilegious to name a child after a god or goddess. The mos...

This is probably the most impressive thing I've seen here.

When you create a new conlang, what are the first words you create? Mine are usually numbers and pronouns.

dyolf wrote: NEXT: career

Orisiyan:

Alat, which also means "to work."

NEXT: cloud

hwhatting wrote: Next: prepare

Orisiyan: Aheo "to prepare, to make ready, to fortify"

Next: fire

My Conlang, Ternuan (Linjυa Ternυa) mostly uses the Latin alphabet but also uses some Greek and Cyrillic letters.

Almea is probably the conworld with the most detailed written history besides Middle Earth. Do most people here write detailed histories of their Conworlds, or am I in the minority here? I've written histories and short stories for my conworld. The stories and histories I've written include among ot...

This is not all that difficult, as many modern concepts actually have Latin names - refrigerâtor , for instance, is good Latin. Looking at Romance languages is obviously helpful: when French has ordinateur and Spanish has ordenador 'computer', you can "reconstruct" the Latin word as ordinâtor . Any...

Richard W wrote:https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armarium_frigidarium

https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrete

Thanks for those!

Hello, I have a basic understanding of Latin (it's been a few years since I've taken classes), and in the recent past I've met people who know Latin and can speak it as well. I can make basic conversation in the language but I feel like I'm not doing it right when I say words like "internetum" and "...

Is shanos escen Suomias nal tasim feneshev un Inglishith sesinon ekh. Nal lashan?

I have heard it being told that Finnish is a very hard language for English speakers to learn. Is it true?

This is good. I find numeral systems that are different than ours interesting.

So I'm assuming subject and object are marked with word order? There are other ways to do it without case marking. (For instance polypersonal agreement, where verbs are marked for both subject and object, or an animacy hierarchy and inverse marking, which I'm not going to explain here (mostly becau...

Siy Cweyith Carolinac. (pronounced "Seye Quay-ith Car-o-lin-ack") I live in South Carolina. (literally "I live in Carolina of the South") Are there noun cases or something like that? Because it looks to me like there's a genitive or locative or both in that example sentence. But I may very well be ...

Thry wrote:Weiss du far caew-te mir?
Do you know who told me?

Sepith-Panim pescen ten keyn?

Did Batman tell you?

Thry wrote:Ac en misonly Robin yae.
But a jealous Robin does.

Test isith Nakafah!

You discovered my lie!