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Wait, are we doing detailed country maps too? That sounds like fun times.

I propose this party get extended because jpegs have yet to conquer strongly.

Damn, sexy map. Look at all dem colors.

Just don't dock them in Eritrea...

In response to the declaration of war, Jaawi Ruusih's National Assembly has gathered and seeks to make a public pronouncement. "Jaawi Ruusih shall remain in neutrality in the midst of the war of her neighbors. We seek to continue to serve you and support our relations. For this reason all non-milita...

Linguifex wrote:

Drydic Guy wrote:...Where did Detroit come from?

I added it. The plan was to write in a short description but then I ended up playing video games for a couple hours.

I don't blame you.

I try to keep my distance from Detroit as much as possible.

You're a wise man, Sr. Linguifex.

The deepest foulest pits of Hell. And based on their financial practices, they're headed back there in a hand-basket.


Unless they mug Cleveland.

So many penis jokes already, but not enough yet.

Jaawi Ruusih is holding funeral ceremonies for the eaten delegate, and also for those who ate him, since they are likely dead too.

There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Jaawi Ruusih has sent a delegate to the Aurora Rossa Federation in hopes of establishing the beginnings of a Caffeinated Trade. The delegate will bear with him some of the finest post-fermented teas aged for decades as a gift. With a rich, earthy and fruity flavor, these varieties of teas are premie...

Maybe they will be pirate friends who import rum! If the TV has taught me anything, it is that pirates always have Rum, and that Puerto Rico has Rum that helps in Cuban battle.

Quick interbang in the thread. I noticed I accidentally made an archipelago in the shape of my county's name. I had a brain droop.

Sorry.

Introducing the Member States of the Overly Egalitarian Islands and Shores of Jaawi Ruusih, or simply Jaawi Ruusih to those not so pretentious, by which we mean those not involved with the legal system. Jaawi Ruusih means Joy's Birth in the native language of the majority ethnicity, the Gomah, thoug...

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Laura, does Japanese do what you are thinking? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf I thought the +te form of verbs +mo after it might be pretty much what you're talking about. Te form is conjunctive itself as well. Also, the +ba form is conditional and very simi...

Since this is one of my favorite threads and the big reason I joined up on the ZBB, I'm going to try to kick some life back in here. Next: ergative alignment I'm going to do my best at this. The group that uses the conlang I'm writing has yet to make wheels, so anything related to grammar is not in ...

Based off what I see here, the prenasalized stops are the homorganic nasal + the voiced graph. /mb/ - <mb> for example and this makes sense. But you, and I would say sensibly, use <ng> for the velar nasal leaving the prenasalized velar stop as <ngg>. It looks like you never use a bare <g>. Since /g...

Honestly, for Romanization I prefer using digraphs over using diacritics. I have no really strong reason for doing it. I simply can normally work it out such that it is less Key strokes that using diacritics. So laziness is pretty much my reason. I have used diacritics before, though. I try to keep ...

Not trying to tromp the fun here, but anytime I see a place where your romanization can be optimized a little, I tend to speak up, so feel free to ignore me. You said you are using <ng> for the velar nasal, and this is what I'm focusing on, because there seems to be an overlap hole you can take adva...

What sources do you have on Wrlbiri? That's seems to me tough to find material on.

I get the feeling Tagalog was partly behind the inspiration of this. The saliency of thematic role gives that feeling, and it is augmented by the, for lack of better words, clumsiness of English equivalencies. It has a natural feel to it. There are some unique aspects that are surely uncommon in my ...

...The fact is that this quiz is quite poorly designed. 99%+ of all languages have vowels, except for Nuxalk and maybe a few others. Not to be a harpy, but Nuxalk does have vowels. All natural languages have them to the best of our knowledge, likely due to the fact that they make distinctions easy....

Do not open a "party store" in Michigan unless you know what you're getting yourself into because you won't find many products for children's parties at a Michigan party store. A Michigan party store sells alcohol. Does that count? On that note, here in the Boston area we have what we call "packies...

Quick question. The conlang I'm on right now has no distinction of voicing. However, in certain situations, some of the consonants voice intervocalically. I had recently also added, with mixed emotions, the voiceless lateral fricative. I was thinking I might have that allophonically voice to the typ...

I saw this a while ago and was mildly impressed.

this has taken a turn.

May I take this time to say:

DAYUM DAYUM