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Cedh

But I'm concerned that the Nitaze River won't be navigable even for a long stretch below the city. [...] It's not even a very big river, just long. If, as I proposed a while ago, we place Aθáta (and later, E'át) south of Rathedān, the southern river (which I suggest we call Mlir, or MILĪR in Adāta)...

Cedh

Corumayas wrote:Any ideas about the Athalēan Emperors' names?

A while ago I named the emperor who conquered Akeladada Tēmekas II...

Cedh

As for the expansion of the area of influence of each of the city-states... this will result in the somewhat unusual situation of many (most?) states having their capitals in the periphery, relative to the geographic centre of the expanded region. This could be resolved by saying that after the for...

Cedh

So, given the new map, I've been trying to figure out what goes where. Of Adāta's immediate descendents, Ayāsthi, Mavakhalan, Kozado, and Pencek are already well-situated in particular regions. Æðadě and Aθáta are not - the latter is described as being spoken somewhere in Rathedan, and the former d...

Cedh

Adāta lexicon (beware of semantic shifts and reimportation) Fáralo loanwords relating to imperialism, governance and philosophy. Thank you very much! I guess these lists date from ~400-500 YP when Imperial Adāta was standardized... am I correct? {proposal for the structure of the Athalē empire} I l...

Cedh

Still, Kasca is the home for my most-loved conlang Naidda and I would just as soon see that land re-emerge as one of the post-Huyfarah independent splinter-states. Even if it ends up small. I very much want a place in the timeline for potential descendents of Naidda that I or anyone else may create...

Cedh

Alternatively, we could move the dates in cedh's proposal earlier. For example, they might edge into the Eige valley after Etou II's failed invasion of Lasomo in the third century, 200 years earlier than cedh's dates. This would be good. Maybe like this: from 200 on: Expansion of Athalē into the Ei...

Cedh

A brief examination of Aθáta suggests that it is not all that different from Adāta - it could be contemporaneous with old Ayāsthi (Adhāsth). [Examples omitted] The main grammatical differences are Aθáta's development of concord and Adhāsth's use of plural for deference. Shared innovations include s...

Cedh

I think it would be fun to have more borrowing among the branches. The problem is that it's hard to tell which languages should be contemporaneous with each other. For example, I suspect that the languages I originally borrowed from, Yhát and Zhaj, should actually be significantly earlier than Ghaf...

Cedh

TzirTzi wrote:...the link to Adata itself is dead...

At the moment, Google has it cached here. I don't know for how long though, so you should quickly save a backup copy for yourself.

Cedh

Zhen Lin wrote:<tx>? I hope that's not Esperanto-style orthography there...

Don't worry, it's just a Catalan-inspired spelling for [tS]

Cedh

I wrote both articles, and forgot to update the one on the wiki when I last edited the one on the board. Also, the ZBB post includes languages which are yet to be derived, while the wiki lists only more-or-less finished ones. I've just updated the wiki article, and fixed broken links in both version...

Cedh

@ krinnen and schwhatever: Also : I'm in the opinion that new comers in this relay should be allowed to just make a daughter of the language they like, instead of keeping the team thing. That way people don't have to wait for months, and the resulting tree will be much more realistic. I completely a...

Cedh

TomHChappell wrote:
RHaden wrote:If you had an original sequence of glottalized stop plus aspirated stop, which assimilation would be more likely?

How about the reverse: aspirated stop plus glottalized stop?
Either way the speaker would sound like he/she was about to choke to death.

Cedh

Radius Solis wrote:...my motivation and momentum for Puoni got a serious kick in the pants when the grammar I was writing on the KneeQuickie went poof into thin air. Entirely my fault, I know.

Rad, did you know that Google seems to have cached what you had written up at the time?

Cedh

cromulant wrote:I'm tempted to say that clusters are universally difficult for toddlers, but maybe Georgian kids have a terrible time with any word with vowels.

Cedh

Holy crap, look at some of these. ts > p? wtf? z > w? :? The enterprising conlanger can use the Athapaskan family to justify practically anything they want to do with their grammars... and it looks like this applies to sound changes too. Slavey (dialect of Slavey-Hare) *ʦ → tθ Mountain (dialect of ...

Cedh

Before I get too carried away, could someone point me to a map of the region where the Edastean family is spoken? I thought I'd seen one before, but can't find it now. I'm wanting to know which langs are nearby spatially and temporally that I can take borrowings and other contact influence from. He...

Cedh

Two board games have turned up in my conworld so far; the generic chess-like game (it's called "detcha") and another a bit like mah-jongg. I'm thinking of introducing a third, in which you have a number of blocks called "phonemes" which can only be placed in certain orders to create "words". The wi...

Cedh

Good to see this is still going -- last time I was active on the ZBB it looked moribund. Anyway, I anticipate having some time upcomingly so would very much like to take part. I don't particularly mind where in the tree I go, but somewhere with a big and undepleted lexicon would be nice. Welcome! I...

Cedh

It looks impressively analysed, and the prosody part seems well researched. Thank you :D Though perhaps an explanation about the rows in the last table would be good - is that saying that the first vowel of the root affects the vocalisation? The rows designate the last vowel of the root. For exampl...

Cedh

The phonology of Aradŕy is complete! (I may still change the orthography, and possibly fine-tune some allophony rules, but most of it can be considered final. I'll also have to work out some conhistory to name the notorious "some dialects" :)) @ Zhen Lin: I hope you don't mind me recycling your css ...

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