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OK, so calendars. I could use a lot of help on this, especially checking my math. A few relevant pieces of information: Local (solar) day is 22.10 hours. Planet orbits primary every 398.27 local days. Primary moon orbits planet every 29.81 local days. Secondary moon orbits planet every 46.88 local d...

I've decided this planet will have two moons with a 243:395 resonance in their orbital periods (same as Earth and Venus). Once certain groups figure out astronomy, the "restart" of the cycle will become a major holiday for those religions. Now I just have to figure out the calendar. One of the moons...

I love you, Chaotic Shiny. ---------------- So this is the story of the Balloon War. (This is going to be told with a little more levity than usual because it's 5:00 AM here and I haven't gotten to sleep yet.) One of the several empires that the Tim Ar got passed around was at war with a neighbor. T...

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Quick update—via sound change, I've discovered the following sentence in Middle Sỉsǒk Tlar Kyanà:

Bsyày bsyảy bsyày bsyȁy bsyày.
bsyày bsyảy bsyày bsyȁy bsyày
3SG.F carve rich partial.hole well
'she carves a wealthy hole in (as opposed to through) the well'

Personal pronouns. Forms are cited in the pattern Proto-Nyar Toler Kyanà → Middle Sỉsǒk Tlar Kyanà → Mȕy Bǎȍn : Ngùynâ : Nǐkyúwār / Orthographic . 1 SG *hiw A → hai̯ A1 → ha˧ : hai̯˧ : hoi̯˧ / hay 1 DL.INCL *hɾwo D → hlu D2 → hluˀ˨˩ : hlu˨˩˨ : hlu˥˧ / hlȕ 1 DL.EXCL *βo A → ɸu A2 → ɸu˨˩ : ɸu˨˩ : ɸu˨˩...

A quick aside regarding the Tlar Kyanà language. Proto-Tlar Kyanà phonology /m n ŋ/ /p b ⁿb t d ⁿd k g ⁿg ʔ/ /ɸ β s z x ɣ h/ /l ɾ/ /w j/ /u o ɔ a ɛ e i/ Tones: *A *B *C *D (C)(ɾ)(l)(w/j)VT(l/ɾ)(N)(S) m p b ⁿb ɸ β ŋ k g ⁿg x ɣ → mɲ pʃ bʒ ⁿbʒ ɸʃ βʒ ɲ c ɟ ⁿɟ ç ʝ / _{j,i} t d ⁿd s z k g ⁿg x ɣ → tʃ dʒ ⁿ...

Seed 1767476587: /ɒ/ is listed in the consonant section as a velar/uvular trill.

dehs- MANNER APPLICATIVE Basically refers to a manner of doing something, moving it from an adpositional phrase to a direct object. Dialectally, the perlative is ignored in favor of this applicative. əj hutʔo dehsenuñij əj hutʔo dehs-ñuñ-ij 3 SG.M.M old.man APPL.MAN -appear-3 SG.M.M 'he looks like ...

A bunch of new applicatives in this post, plus one sort-of idiomatic phrase. dahay nəʔjejyeyeš dahay nəʔ-j-tley-z 3 SG.M.F APPL.ABL - PST -go- REFL.M.F 'it split, it broke, it split apart' -------- tul- INESSIVE APPLICATIVE əj kawway tultetleyjahay əj kawway tul-j-tley-dahay 3 SG.M.M house APPL.INES...

I want to call this family Dujajikiswə . Now I just have to make some morphemes to make it work… dujajikiswə duj-ajik-i-swə tree-person- PL - GEN There we go. ---- Reflexives always have some sort of applicative; if there's no other pertinent argument, they take a benefactive or a malefactive. əj ej...

Protolang with a lot of Lardil in it: /m n̪ n ɲ ŋ/ m ṉ n ñ ng (geminate /ŋː/ is written ngg ) /p t̪ t tʲ k ʔ/ p d t j k ʔ /s̪ s ʃ h/ z s š h /w l̪ l j/ w ł l y /u o ɔ a ə ɛ e i/ u o ɔ a ə ɛ e i (C)V(C) Progressive POA assimilation of coronals to other coronals (/ɲ j/ count as coronal for the purpose...

Reposting the Lardil-esque language from the Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread here: /m n̪ n ɲ ŋ/ m ṉ n ñ ng (geminate /ŋː/ is written ngg ) /p t̪ t tʲ k ʔ/ p d t j k ʔ /s̪ s ʃ h/ z s š h /w l̪ l j/ w ł l y /u o ɔ a ə ɛ e i/ u o ɔ a ə ɛ e i (C)V(C) Some sort of assimilation will occur with ...

Ḍęlap ąhę nǫktet bor e ą ḍanhǫk walim?
ḍęlap ą-hę nǫktet bor e ą ḍanhǫk walim
status 2SG-GEN be.possible/3SG.INDIC.PRES even SUB 2SG transport/ACT.NMLZ breathe/ACT.PTCP
Is it even possible for you to be a jetpack?

Miudani o ia na i nôuno odair hialdosa? desire-2s by 1s.OBJ what CLAS demand like jetpack /ˈmʏ͡yðɪɲə ʊ ja naj ˈnʊ͡unʊ ˈoðɛ͡aɹ ˈɕaldəsa/ What qualifications do I need to be your jetpack? (lit. What do you demand from me as a jetpack?) (Archaic Wǫkratąk) E to iġġalop do. /ɛ tɔ iɠːalɔp dɔ/ SUB 1 SG bu...

I added the root *ljʁm 'take' to the Proto-Tim Ar-O lexicon today. In Ngade n Tim Ar, it becomes liam and shifts in meaning to 'retrieve'.

Archaic Wǫkratąk has √ppt 'be powerful, have power to back up a threat', from Microsoft PowerPoint.

Ḅǫñrǫkkę should be Mǫñrǫkkę, shouldn't it? That dialect merged the implosives with the nasals. And Nasommę should be Nahommį. For reference purposes: CaCCo·k pl. CɨCCa·k – participial CaCiC pl. CɨCa·C – adjectival (active) CoCiC pl. CoCa·C – adjectival (passive) iCCo·C pl. iCCɨC – resultative (typic...

Well, u-fronting is a fairly common sound change…

So the three dialect groupings of Wǫkratąk are: Nasommę (High Wǫkratąk) Takil (Low Wǫkratąk) Ḅǫñrǫkkę (East Wǫkratąk) ---- -r 'far' ---- tiktel pl. tiktąl 'city' > CiC1eC pl. CiC1ąC 'structure built for some purpose' tirtek pl. tirtąk 'defensive fortification' (dialectally > 'tower over the city gat...

Redoing a few things: The instance resultative is CoCCi by analogy with its plural due to conflation with the passive adjectival form. nissam pl. nisasmą 'mountain' > CiC:aC pl. CiCaXCą 'landform' Verbs ('I am mountainous', 'I am characteristic of rivers', that sort of thing) are derived from these ...

It occurs to me that kolsǫ 'dowry' would have a plural. It would be oklasą , so oCCaCą. (Actually, this was analogized from iCCaCą, so I might have East Wǫkratąk retain it. This would cause three of the plural paradigms to be the same, which I think would have interesting results.) Also had to redo ...

All right, I've decided that I don't like the prenasalized stops. Thus, they will become implosives /ɓ ɗ ɠ/ ḅ ḍ ġ . ---- Some nominalized stems from the protolanguage created their own analogical patterns. In cases where there are more than four consonants in a word that became analogized, the first...

More on Archaic Wǫkratąk. Citation forms are the first-person singular. The subjunctive is used for hypothetical or counterfactual events. bǫCaCCo SUBJUNCTIVE PAST bęCaCCo SUBJUNCTIVE PRESENT bęC:aCCo SUBJUNCTIVE IMMINENT FUTURE weCaCCo SUBJUNCTIVE FUTURE Bǫsaktęt. stand/3 SG.SUBJ.PST 'Perhaps it st...

You could always overhaul your language if you aren't satisfied with it. I did that to the first language I ever posted to the Internet, Çuvvaccoçim. I'm much happier with how it has turned out since I radically changed it. My advice for doing tricon roots: don't, it's not worth it. I wouldn't go so...

Imralu wrote:Next: to cut

Proto-Tim Ar-O *tlenhuʃ 'cut, split'
> Classical Ngade n Tim Ar cenús [ɬènús] 'divide, partition off, segment, demerge, write a sequel'
> Proto-O *twenwh 'cut, slice' > O tơnơ: /tənəː/ 'prepare food'

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