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Hallo! I'm going to say they have tails, to serve their swimming in place of a dorsal fin. The bas-relief is intended to be a picture of a ktuvok made by someone who's never seen one-- the tail won't be a long crocodilian thing. Bugger. Nice! That's pretty much what I always imagined the ktuvoki to ...

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The subject says it all. On the page about Cadhinorian paganism, there is an image of a basrelief depicting Enäron vanquishing a ktuvok - in which the ktuvok looks like a crocodile with funny frills on its head. How crocodile-like are ktuvoki actually?

Hallo! Hallo! Hallo. Elkaril has features (such as graded signs and "assigned anaphora") that are not just non-European but plainly non-human . I believe ASL, which is definately human, has something like the assigned anaphora, where you can sign something in a space around you and then refer to tha...

Hallo! Don't confuse peculiarities of the spelling with features of the language . I'm a little confused. I had said: "Besides the plural, verb infinitive, and preterite formations which Flaidish has in common with German..." ...which to me seems like features of the language, even though it was men...

Hallo! As for your statement that "Flaidish has a vowel shift in its history similar to the English Great Vowel Shift, but that's about all it has in common with English."... I wouldn't say that. Flaidish seems to have several features in common with the Germanic languages... not just English, but G...

Hallo! In fact, from what I understand of the Iliu languages, we're not looking at anything that humans think of or structure. Their words are more like musical genres, being mutable to suit the attitude of the argument and the style. Ideas are carried through this medium in another way than we're u...

Hallo! There are two Almean languages I'd really like to see. First, a Chia-Sha language, with sound changes and all. It would be nice to see how an IE-like Eastern language turns into something typologically like Chinese (at least, that's what I understand Chia-Sha languages to be like - monosyllab...

Hallo! To get back onto the topic: Some interesting "non-IE" features can be found in Caucasian languages. The Caucasus is a linguistic wonderland, with more than 50 languages in an area about the size of Germany or France. And most of these languages are interesting . Georgian has uvular and ejecti...

Hallo! Hallo! I have just nominated Verdurian as conlang of the month October 2006 on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Constructed_languages/Language_of_the_month/Suggestions I'm all in favour of that! The language certainly deserves it, and the article is in good shape. It would be ni...

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I have just nominated Verdurian as conlang of the month October 2006 on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Con ... uggestions

I seem to remember reading something about someone making a sort of black-on-white Tolkienesque story (or was it an RPG?). In it the elves and humans were evil and terrorised peaceful orcs and trolls. Has anyone else heard about it? Sounds like the "Black Book of Arda". I know next to nothing about...

Hallo! That's a great question; in fact, it'd make a great story. I dislike the apparent biological determinism of Tolkien's world-- it's hard to picture an orc deciding not to be evil any more. On the other hand, the elcari wouldn't exactly be welcoming. Zompist, you are speaking out what I have be...

Hallo! If I could plan a holiday in Almea, what would I prioritise? Answer: Xurno. Nothing else matters, so long as I can visit Xurno (among other things Xurnash is the coolest-sounding language on the Sounds of Almea page). But in doing so, I'd want to know the answers to a few questions: 1. What's...