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Zarnínaufin?

Aha! Cool!


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Zarní?

Oh! Hmm...


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Zarníáak?

Ooooooh, shiny!

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Nínahansar. Zarni?

I'm still pointing at the

Simple questions are simple! Sweet!

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Nínaáak?

It's true! ^_^

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Nínaáak?

Sweet! Okay, selfish requests that need only apply to me: - Where natural, please use complete sentences (whatever that means for Inyauk) - If you can tell what I'm trying to say but I'm not saying it right, or even not quite naturally, please give me the correct thing to say instead - Please avoid ...

Ha! Well dang. That's what I get for ill-timed travel plans. For future reference (and because I worked on it over the trip and am now rarin' to do something with it) an updated Feayran reference grammar is here (pdf). It isn't as long as it looks--I like whitespace, and a lot of sections are skelet...

Question: If an Inyauk toddler encountered an object that they didn't yet know the word for and wanted someone else to tell them, what would they ask?

(Is this thread only for conversation, or also small questions?)

Hey guys, I'm running out the door for a weekend trip where I may or may not have internet--I'll post my available materials as soon as possible, but no later than I return on Monday. Sorry for the delay!

:o Whoa! Look what you did, brandrinn! This is awesome! A question for the learners: what kinds of learning materials do you all prefer? Will you want a reference grammar, classic text-booky lessons, honkin' piles of translated texts...? Also, @Count: whence the spelling difference between Xhaimeran...

This would be entirely awesome. I've created a lot of teaching materials for Feayran for various people, and the grammar is developed and stable*. If you'd be interested in learning, that would be a whole bucket of fun! * EDIT: I should clarify--the language's grammar is developed and stable, but th...

Fair point. I'll expand the information in the first post. But it hopefully has gotten people to look at it...did you? XD Sorry, I was unclear. That was directed at Ashroot--his comment about Viktor was a reference to a thread he started in Ephemera about his blog which elicited the quoted response...

I could reply in vicktor77's words, "Why should I care?" but you have a nice blog, a nice format and a nice writing style. It is worth my time. Ronin's opening post tells you why you should care. a place to talk about the various conlanging projects and ideas that I have going the first substantive...

The penny didn't really drop until I saw the alternate word orders. Then, the constituent phrases became obvious. My first thought after seeing this was that this was an isolating, prepositional grammar with free constituent order--the one constraint being that the 'object' always immediately follo...

Actually a woman without her man is a Chinese conversationalist

No one else? Alrighty then. Thanks again, cromulant! Hypothesis: there are no verbs. Predicates are formed by various combinations of prepositional phrases, which can be more or less freely ordered within a sentence. Prepositions include at , khe , ppor and qqhar . (Yes, I've revised my opinion of t...

Glad to help! This is an interesting language. I'm not in a situation right now where I can ponder it in depth, so I have nothing new to bring at the moment. I hope others will jump in. Thanks! I hope to get some other voices too, but if not, I'll post my intentions in a little bit to see what you ...

Awesome! Many thanks, cromulant, that's greatly helpful! (I don't want to contaminate the environment with my own intentions yet so other people can give their thoughts, but this is definitely the kind of think I'm looking for.) NOTE: I caught a typo in the original translation set :oops: * B: Xonh,...

Sure thing! Here are the new sentences, and I've edited them into the OP as well. Qqhar ngex tsi ttsell khe anh. "I am going there now." Qqhar ngex tsi ttsell khe anh poppak. "I am going there now on foot." Qqhar tsi ttsell khe ong rreng'en. "I arrive there every morning." Qqhar tsi ttsell khe kkir ...

Hey guys! So, I started sketching a new project. I have a morphosyntactic analysis in mind, but I suspect I may be overthinking it, so I wanted to see what fresh brains drew from the data. And thus! Here's a collection of translated sentences (organized in groups for convenience), selected to demons...

And PLEASE, and I say this as a Mod, not just as an interlocutor, don't do that ridiculous thing with the page of sequential replies again. It does nothing but inconvenience everybody. This isn't USENET. The world has moved on. I know we're all geeks, but that doesn't mean we have to act like nerds...

TallaFerroXIV wrote:NEXT: River plane running into the sea.

Káibihùokte
foot<DIR.FOLLOW-goose<LOC.FOLLOW>>
Goose's foot.



To give an insult disguised as a compliment.

In regards to the omnipredicativity, I never really thought of words as being truly verb/noun neutral. But I think that would be best. I was looking at it from a convoluted perspective I think. But I could have distinct nouns and verbs if and when I chose to conjugate them as one or the other. If t...

It could be distinct from zero copula if the nouns-acting-as-verbs exhibit verbal morphology, yes? I read (on Wikipedia which probably doesn't really count) that Nahuatl has an interesting property called "omnipredicativity" which means that not only do nouns mean for instance "knife" but also "is a...