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OK. As Welsh revives, English in Wales will pick up more words from it and finally the two languages will merge*, with a Welsh syntax (BE - SUBJ - VERBNOUN) but a lot of English vocabulary. The aspirate mutation will vanish, but the soft and nasal mutations will still be going strong. A reverse soft...

We'll never know.

Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov tried it in the 1920s.Ethics were less rigorous then.

On the other hand, to digest Almean food, we would only need them to have the same biochemical building blocks - the twenty L-amino acids, the D-sugars and the triglycerides, and enzymes capable of breaking the (limited number of) bonds between them.

Any genetic material must fulfil several conditions: 1) The molecule must be stable. That is the problem with RNA and why it tends to be used as temporary transport copies and catalytic molecules (like ribosomes) rather than the permanent genetic material of most organisms. 2) It must be copyable.Th...

Seconded!

I use gen with an established phonology, then pick a few words I like from the output.

7 tokn Went to Śakipeś Street to dine with Bokugo, Śakipeś ŋa:unado Bokugoli go:źi źeniŋokka Śakipeś street-LOC Bokugo-INSTR eat go-1-PAST-AND who was burning to show me his latest findings. su:ma la:likan liusano ŋolsageśa new-AUG find-NOM-PL see-CAUS-me burn-DUR-who He took out a clay tablet ŋazaw...

I suspect it's because the Eastern languages have been up for longest and have lost the shiny newness sparkle in people's heads.

Mind you I'd hate to have to struggle with the Munkhashi & Dhekhnami verb systems.

I believe we've got up to 5000, but I'm sure you can set a subculture going in a previous era. I think we probably need a timeline added to the Wiki. Anyway I claim Dr-7, Dr-8 and Dr-9 for the Da:zi, and if Matrix agrees, one of the adjoining E squares. The Da:zi will definitely try to expand into T...

1. The Ayīt.
2. The Sentan Kingdom.
3. The Pouzxat.
4. Eastern Nespeks.

Very interesting. Which of the stems does "Ōithūa" come under? -ā?

The Da:zi moved further north, into the steppe, to evade a Tsargoki expeditionary force sent to wipe them out. Ksikirtyak sacrficed several golems in a raid on the Tsargoki army which was chasing them, and sent the rest back into Tsargoki territory. When the news came through that the golems were ra...

The Da:zi Nation (Da:zi comes from dasir, the Tsargoki name for human). Da:zi history begins when a band of some three hundred humans of all ages, led by the messianic prophet Klarot, travelled west over the Eastern Matrixian mountains. Klarot was taken by many to be an avatar of the Old Race, but ...

The Dazi (escaped slaves from Tsargoki) Tsargoki society has been battered, but not beaten, by the effects of the Great Wobble and C. irrumpans , the brain-infesting amoeba. The strengthening of the ambient magic has also had far-reaching effects. The most significant was some members of the slave ...

clawgrip wrote:It would also be helpful if all the people who have participated so far would make it clear if they want to continue or give up.

I'm going on.

Syllabic l, with the tongue touching the teeth.

We hold a preliminary voting round for the area.

Difficult to make up my mind between 2 and 3.

I'd recommend looking at Zompist's conlangs, such as Elkaril, Axunashin, Lé, and Old Skourene prefixes and nominalisations for examples of how the thing is handled in languages with different grammars.

If I could only pick one it would be Flaidish. I also have a soft spot for Wedei. But I can think of something good to say about all of them.

And we have the Jippirasti alphabet too, at no extra charge!

Perhaps that might be a god idea. I think some people may be running out of ideas and or free time.

Hard to choose. I submit:

1. Tree golems.
2. Brain-infesting terror amoeba.
3. Earthquake golems.
4. Fa plant.

One query? How could the Great Wobble possibly be a "local catastrophe"?

Magic Becomes Temporarily More Powerful I thought I'd have a go at developing this idea. Magic Hot-Spots.png Figure: Magic-enhanced sites are marked in red: magic-depleted in black. What is the ultimate source of magic? Some say it is the Sun. Why not? After all, the Sun is the source of everything...