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Duuuuude, blayṣ is one my favorite words in MA

Words related to concepts that are foreign to the native speakers are most likely to be borrowed,then words related to more complex ideas like academic and legal terms; on the contrary, grammatical affixes, functional words and words related to everyday life(like those listed on the Swadesh list or...

Word: curbstomp

Wippwo: dos from Namidu dos 'strike, attack'

Next word: fermentation

When I was first designing Vezurian, I was a big fan of Guild Wars: Nightfall. The word vanac 'zealous, pious' references an early antagonist who was a fanatical warlady.

Thanks for the reply, Cedh! Good stuff to think about

Is there a wordlist of Proto-Habeo floating around? All I see on the wiki is the Proto-Xoronic lexicon. I realized that the Anheshnalaks, over the course of their eastward migrations, could intersect and even live alongside speakers of Habeo languages. From them the Anheshnalaks would learn stories ...

At work now, holder post for my thoughts on the "Arabizi" (English-Arabic code switching) that I've noticed among English-language students of Arabic and Arabs (especially Egyptians).

@Chagen: "Texan here...hm, I don't think the distinction exists here. I could definitely say "you might've broken that" to mean "it's possible that you have now broken it", while "you may have broken that" would usually mean...actually, the same thing, honestly" "You might've broken it" sounds more ...

The stop series reminds me of Tengwar but the rest of the characters carry a unique feel to them and do not remind me of it.

And Serali, now that's a name I haven't heard in a while !

For all interested parties, I have uploaded two lexicon lists for Wippwo to Google Drive. The first is a list of native words based on the original wordlist that Zompist began to create many moons ago. The second is a list of recent loan words that have entered the language. NB, both are living docu...

From the Guardian: "Decline of the Dentist's Drill? Drug helps rotten teeth regenerate, trial shows."

I got confused on the "rotten teeth", reading "rotten" as a verb than as an adjective.

They have lived their whole lives by gathering firewood. Wippwo: Ha lleirah got om arelou šouna diḇoŋiwã lo diḇo ha lleira-h got om arelou šouna diḇoŋ-iwã lo diḇo by.3sg gather-VN wood of.3sg hearth AORIST gather-3plSUB.3sgOB DEF fat They store the fat by gathering firewood Next phrase: "His greate...

Hmu dendana, I haven't posted the grammar or word list for Wippwo yet (life comes at you fast and conlanging is a long art)

Hi dendana, your language is spoken to the northwest and is a contemporary of Wippwo , a daughter of Naidda that I've created! According to Zompist's rough notes (he was in charge of Wippwo before I took it over from him), a trading republic a la Venice developed in the Kasca delta that spoke Wippwo...

Thanks for the insightful post, Corumayas. An in-between language lines up with what I was planning. The loan words wouldn't be many; I'm thinking they would be for foods and goods new to the Anheshnalaks as a result of their migration to the south. I'm also thinking of a biography for an Ibn-Battut...

Has it been worked out how the Peninsular languages spread? I had an inclination to put a few loanwords from that family into my never ending revisions of Shtasa but I don't know which Peninsular language I should trace the origins to.

Arabic Like: The richness of 1400 years of written language to draw upon! The redundant marking of prepositions in dependent clauses (e.g. I want to ride the car that you rode in it ). /ʕ/ , /q/ , and /ɣ/ are such beautiful sounds. Dislike: The richness of 1400 years of written history and the free...

Hi Nooj, I recently returned from a year in Morocco. I came in with a background in Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic, do you have background knowledge of Arabic? What are you looking for? I don't know that many resources for learning specifically Moroccan Arabic, alas. It is terribly under...

I now have a large enough lexicon to write simple poetry in Vezurian: Leda köpi v'albán mu? Mefe mu ir šu mefe, Leda köpi v'albán mu? Ev vanún fu neye why steal-2SG DEF-heart 1.DAT sorry 1.DAT and 2sg.DAT sorry why steal-2SG DEF-heart 1.DAT in water-ACC die-1SG morning "Why did you steal my heart? /...

Next word: to suck

Wippwo: mall [maL] from Buruya Nzaysa malɛ
Empotle7á: emollá
Shtåså: musp

Next word: instant (moment of time)

I am in the process of internalizing the pronunciation of 'butcher' as /ˈbʊt͡ʃ.ɚ/ instead of [ˈbət͡ʃ.ɚ]

ObsequiousNewt wrote:Modern Greek

zbb wrote:Conlangery & Conworlds

I totally can believe that Modern Greek is a cleverly disguised conlang

Darija aka Moroccan Arabic شي ناس كيبدلوهم الفلوس [ʃi nɛs ki.bɪdːɪ.lu.hom l̞flus] ši nes kybiddiluhom lflus ši nes k-y-biddil-u-hom l-flus some people IND-3sg.-change-PL-3pl.ACC DEF-money Money changes some people. I share this (beginning of a Moroccan friend's Facebook post) because this is a comm...

Well I love hearing Arabic's /q/, /ʕ/, /ɣ/, and /ħ/ in songs and in every day words, so I'm against Tolkien on this one! The word /qal.ʕa/ 'citadel, castle' and /ʕajn/ 'eye' are exceptionally beautiful imo

For a neo-Akkadian lang that I was working on, the script is the Arabic alphabet. Since it is spoken in modern-Iraq.