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We've not made any firm decisions yet regarding general flora and fauna, much less crops. However, Basilius has put forward vocab for the following in the Team 2 protolanguage: louse, wasp, hornet, flea, beetle, moth, fly, spider, cobweb, tick, scorpion, mosquito; crawfish, snail, clam, crab, shrimp...

My Akanaran conlang Woltu Falla can produce some confusing sentences:

Šaša aš-šabaš seššin siš-uššü.
['ʃaʃɐ a'ʃːabaʃ 'sɛʃːin siʃu'ʃːy]
this_one.NOM 1SG.GEN-meal favoured NULL-covet
"This thing covets my favourite meal."


Huh, I seem to have been the first to do one in a conlang. *feels sheepish*

Very sorry to see you go, WeepingElf - I hope things work out for you in the best way possible.

EDIT: To dunomapuka, I'm good with that. We'll then have three regular Akana contributors on Team 2 alone, which can't be a bad thing

We're discussing ours on the forum, just so you guys know Team 2 is still going ok.

I agree with cedh's proposed method - we can rework borrowings after the relay is complete, I think. I'd also like to reiterate brandrinn's point on not making things too hard to reconstruct. To give an example - a while ago I decided that Zele needed a bit of work as part of a project on improving ...

Excellent. We have all twelve people placed now. http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6120/6386313365_5b4c87700e_z.jpg Treskro, since you asked, I used Gentium Plus - it's the font I almost invariably use for things likely to involve Unicode. And a little schematic version of the same, showing likely conta...

Can I go south-west? I'm satisfied with going towards the west-southwest to the coast south of Roschach Both sound good to me. We still have the western shore of the Great Bay vacant, which means that either Basilius or caedes (or both) should probably move in, unless treskro really wants it. So no...

For the purposes of working out similarities between languages, it's best that we have an idea of who's going where. So far I've got the following migrations as described: http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6038/6383000477_aecb599182_z.jpg As I understand it, cedh is happy to go for the big river valley ...

Yay! Good to see the Steppe getting some attention
I hope you don't tone down the strangeness of Hanheliubl too much.

Quite happy with the locations described so far. I'd like to go for the small alluvial plains on the south coast of the Great Bay (i.e. straight across the mountains, NE from brandrinn's location). In case it proves useful, I made a post a while ago compiling the information we have on Tuysáfa's cli...

New phonologies for everyone. Less drama as well, please. As for starting positions, I think the best options are: In the mountains near the base of the peninsula. In the mountains further northwest of the first place. In the foothills above the major river valley west of the mountains. On the sout...

I'd support two new phonologies at this point because of all the problems that using the previous two would present—I screwed up royally for one. I'd also advise against posting everything publically. I agree wholeheartedly. And while there's nothing wrong with being inventive, I do feel that darkg...

On the subject of location: Here's a climate map for Akana, so people can choose areas that appeal: http://tzirtzi.ipage.com/akana/index.php?title=Image:Akana_climates_draft2.png I'd suggest having one team start in the eastern half of Tuysáfa - it's a fair-sized continent, so there are plenty of pl...

I think it would be better if it's the product of one person. And it needs to be done fairly quickly, before the teams become too enormous. So Dhokarena is doing the language for Team 1. Who will do the deed for team 2 (which now includes Weeping Elf, and maybe Lalpabetarium)? I think Darkgamma was...

Oh, and I took the old poster, cleaned it up a bit, and here it is now: http://i53.tinypic.com/5bwlkz.jpg !!!! The Duke of Nuke, he has totally vanished! Would it be too creepy to send him an sms?! I'm still here, lurking a bit less these days. (Thanks for the text anyways :) ) I do like seeing tho...

Sounds all good to me so far, yeah

Theoretically we could do this with only four people, in two teams of two. But ideally we want more than two people per team. By my count ten or eleven people have registered their interest on this thread, which is a good number. :) The only problem was that some changes simply disappear. For examp...

From Ishoʻu ʻOhu, one of my Akanaran conlangs:

Zípe zíde débazide pa nèmá iʻizazézídatagé.
[ts)í.p_he ts)í.te té.pa.ts)i.te p_ha nè.má ?i.?i.ts)a.ts)é.ts)í.ta.t_ha.ké]
"The ebbing tide pulls at all the boats."

Well, arguably Akana is just a very slow relay of the second kind (derivation only), with the occasional quick burst like the efforts that have led to the Daiadak and Western families. I think a reconstruction challenge, like the original, would be fun since it's an unusual puzzle, and could lead to...

You have to keep in mind that I've been active here for only two months =/ I still don't really understand. Basically two teams create a proto-language from which a set of daughter languages is derived and then giving those daughter languages to the other team each team attempts to reconstruct the ...

Phonologically and orthographically, Meduzian is shamelessly based on Portuguese.

Otya lhenúkya, e marshala ovulu.

Gramatically, it's a little like Welsh, though rather more isolating. I think that was more worked out on my own.

Much like the original, I'd expect. Two teams are organised; one member on each writes a grammar sketch with a lexicon and a short sample text. This is then sent to the rest of the team, each of whom derives a daughter and provides a similar description and a translation of the sample text. Then, ea...

Guitarplayer wrote:Dewrad in 50 years?

I'd say more like 15 years.

It should be be possible to do something in the Western Steppe given the huge area available, but that area does already have a few Western languages. I was thinking the savannah of the southern half of Peilaš would be particularly suitable, or the plains of northern Tuysáfa, since they're more or l...

Fuck me? Please? *sigh* Go on... get your dress. Seriously though, my Movember efforts are pretty weak compared to your own moustache-and-beard combo. And Torco, I find myself missing your bearded look as well. Get some sun. Unless you burn easily then spray tan. I live in England... I've seen the ...