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It would make enthusiastic contribution to the OP's database more likely if he could provide us with (a link to) the data he has compiled, rather than just saying, "thanks, MORE!" The collection is quite amazing and worth a shufty. You can find links to an article about Janko and also to his collec...

Hi, If you'll have numbers from your conlangs. Could please send me on this topic in future? Thank you for your help! Janko In Queranaran: http://www.frathwiki.com/images/6/60/Queranaran_one_to_ten.jpg 1. minnos 2. eryon 3. nellon 4. embro 5. pancon 6. cantos 7. yacuen 8. lindo 9. sendlos x. boadhos

For my conworld, I want to work out some basic facts about the other planets orbiting the same sun. Not technical data like how long their days and years are, but stuff that is visible from the conworld before the invention of the telescope. Can someone point me towards a resource for coming up wit...

But anyway, time for some venting. I hate group projects. I hate them so so much. In my demography class, the professor picks out two countries for us to do a demographic report on (one developed, one developing), and it is a collaborative effort. I don't know why every educational institute in Ame...

... the problem is, she also recommended that I get something called Rescue Tropfen to get through acute phases of anxiety. Sounds like bullshit to me. I asked her if it was a placebo and she basically said "no, I have a tonne of anecdotes about it working" ... so I've just looked it up and it's a ...

I need to come up with a name for the fantasy world on which the realms of Haethion (the realm that speaks the Haethic language family) and Oquivion (the realm that speaks a lot of language families) are found. While the names for the realms were made up easily, as they are simple modifications of ...

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...

Do your conlangs have any words which are interesting or fun references or jokes? Of course! Sometimes these are true homages, other times incidental or accidental nods. For Verbruary this year, I found the Queranaran word snaremgvascuerhrtain , to sleep with ones arms and wings all akimbo. As you ...

http://bricka.16mb.com/samples.png http://bricka.16mb.com/cz.png Serali --- definitely a name to conjure with! And a bit of an homage to her better angels, perhaps. No, this script doesn't remind me at all of Tengwar. Obviously many letter forms look like Cyrillic or Roman or Greek letters. It remi...

One word that is derived (if in an irregular way) from Latin is xonata /ʃu’nata/ ‘a nap’. This caught the eye of a composer in England called David Hamill, who had used this word as a title of a song he had composed. He must have found it on my site using Alta Vista – yes, this was that long a time...

As for where I get words from, sometimes I derive a word from a real-world language... but that's not the in-world etymology of the word. For example, the other day, I came across a nice Mongolian word that I wanted to incorporate. Even better, Tirina realistically could've picked it up from Mongol...

From what I gather above, we come at this art from two very distinct directions. (...) discovery & invention ... making & crafting Thank you for your response, but I can't help but feel I'm being condescended to a little bit..? Like you're the cool guy offering me a reefer and telling me to go with...

Being interested in historical linguistics, I have always been fascinated by words whose origins we can't quite trace back to any one word with any degree of certainty. Some pretty basic words in English have very tentative or incomplete etymologies, e.g. bad , dog , girl . I understand that this i...

Carolina Conlanger wrote:What is the setting for most of your conlangs?

Most of the invented languages I've worked on come from The World. A few are free-floating languages and one I worked
on years ago as part of a collaborative world-building project. I've never set an invented language in the primary world.

mèþru wrote:Pickles and tea for everyone!

ayya! le-yama eiq erduvanyô eic cleryinvostê!

(Yay! to us and tea and sourbrining-things!)

Frislander wrote:It's good to see you.

Likewise!

WeepingElf wrote:Welcome to the ZBB, elemtilas!

Danke schön!

To date, excluding any contributions I've made to conversations on this board and the examples in the grammar, I have written: - two folk tales in the language tqaye! (hey!) Had a quick shufty at the grammar -- very nicely done! Both the presentation and the language. At once familiar, yet also obv...

Talarian uses (inter alia) a modified cuneiform syllabary.

Loucarian uses a Coptic-Greek alphabet.

I've used (Germanic) runes on occasion for some early conlangs. Avantimannish borrows some Turkic as well as Germanic runeforms.