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- Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:36 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: :ch ia-:sh a?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2467
On an unrelated note, I wonder if there will be Almeologists when zomp. will be dead, happily going through all zomp's notes and dig out the gaps in our knowledge of Almea. This is the second or third time this has come up now. Why do people keep asking this question? What's wrong with asking? Aren...
- Thu May 04, 2006 5:18 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Almean languages I'd like to see
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2791
For the ilii, what I've done so far is take a list of apparent universals of human language, and attempt to violate all of them. For instance, iliu language is not primarily communicative, has no pronouns, is not linear (i.e. doesn't consist of one sign after another, nor is it limited to saying on...
- Wed Apr 19, 2006 6:50 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Almean Speakers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3450
Re: Almean Speakers
How many people here actually speak an Almean language? There seem to be a number of people who speak Verdurian, and I'm curious to see about others. I think I saw 55 million somewhere, but I'm sure most of them are in Almea. The number on Earth would be quite a bit less. I'm not sure how accurate ...
- Sat Mar 18, 2006 7:37 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Radio and TV in Verduria
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4907
- Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:21 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Question about Cuêzi transcription
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2063
- Sat Mar 04, 2006 1:21 pm
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Hebrew Lessons / Shi`urey Ha`ivrit
- Replies: 118
- Views: 79884
- Sat Feb 18, 2006 10:12 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: N?cto dy sfahe soa Sfaha
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2491
Re: N?cto dy sfahe soa Sfaha
Esce n?cto sfahe soa Sfaha? Vulu praten cum ?en dy sfahu soa Sfaha pro immelioran so ?uy de sfahen soa Sfaha. And once I had an accurate look at the grammar and some lessons too. Does this mean "Does anyone speak the Speech? I want to talk with people who speak the Speech to fix the way to speak th...
- Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:47 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: N?cto dy sfahe soa Sfaha
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2491
Re: N?cto dy sfahe soa Sfaha
Mark, Neek, So Haleza Grise and probably few othersGond wrote:Does anyone speak Verdurian?
- Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:19 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Almean Nostratic?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4322
- Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:46 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Sarroc and Demoshi
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5212
- Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:30 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Sarroc and Demoshi
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5212
People often suppose that the dialect of the capital city (or whatever other place has supplied the standard language) is more 'pure' or more conservative than provincial speech. In fact the opposite is likely to be true: the active center of a culture will see its speech change fastest; rural or i...
- Fri Jan 27, 2006 10:12 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Sarroc and Demoshi
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5212
People often suppose that the dialect of the capital city (or whatever other place has supplied the standard language) is more 'pure' or more conservative than provincial speech. In fact the opposite is likely to be true: the active center of a culture will see its speech change fastest; rural or i...
- Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:34 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Small curiousity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2755
Re: Small curiousity
Oh I see, it an interesting system, but quite restrictive ! If you don't want to change the basis of the system, you'll have to have LOT of derivation processes. That is, many different vowel stems with precise meanings, prefixes, suffixes, infixes. Lot of pre and postpositions may also be usefull....
- Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:42 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Small curiousity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2755
Re: Small curiousity
If I count right*, that means you have triconsonantal root but only 8 consonants to throw in them. Not really: I have 24 consonants in total, which are divided in 8 (as you said) groups. Say you have g1-g-2-g3 root (indicating a group with "g"): it can appears in various forms, where the groups tak...
- Tue Nov 29, 2005 2:43 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Small curiousity
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2755
Small curiousity
As I'm creating a conlang with a quasi-triconsonantal root system, I had a look at the Old Skourene lexicon and saw that the vocabulary is organized by root: I was wondering, Mark, how many roots do you have in it? I know, I'm lazy... Anyways, in my conlang I have 512 possible roots, but I think it'...
Ctesifon
http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/maps/m_sas_mint_2.jpg
look at this map. in the iraq area there is a city called "ctesiphon".
Has it inspired mark rosenfelder when he was creating ctesifon in almea, or he didn't even know its existance?
look at this map. in the iraq area there is a city called "ctesiphon".
Has it inspired mark rosenfelder when he was creating ctesifon in almea, or he didn't even know its existance?
- Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:43 pm
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: The Almean Name Thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 19756
My name cannot be translated into Verdurian as it seems. I can't find Christian (from which Carsten is derived) on the names page of the Verdurian grammar Cause Christian derives from the name of Jesus Christ, and verdurian are not cattolic. However, i think "christian" or "carsten" would be someth...
- Fri Jul 22, 2005 6:39 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19863
- Fri Jul 22, 2005 4:10 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Lenani is up
- Replies: 52
- Views: 19863
- Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:30 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Correct Verdurian translation?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1952
Monkhayic
Look at the Historical Atlas of Almea the map 3480L, about the modern languages. As said in the Kebreni page, a Monkhayic language is spoken also in the west corner of Dhekhnam; but what language is it? That's written "monkhayu", but isn't it the name of the whole language branch? Can you give me mo...
- Fri Jul 01, 2005 8:21 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: So verd?ry fil
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4873
- Mon Jun 20, 2005 8:35 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: Animals...
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4778
- Thu Jun 16, 2005 9:44 am
- Forum: L&L Museum
- Topic: Weird phrases from real languages
- Replies: 323
- Views: 182701
L'ale is the archaic plural of l'ala , but in modern spoken Italian you say le ali ; li : surely chris knows that the i must be accented, because li is a pronoun, while l? is an adverb that means "there" and would stay at the end or at the becoming of the sentence; l'ho is the archaic form of le ho...