Munkhashi
Munkhashi
Not even bothering with fiddling with the <a> in the title. Sorry.
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Must sleep, or could read Munkhashi. Will read, and report later.
Edit: The rank system is fascinating. Is that something natural in Munkhashi, or did the Ktuvoks create it?
The plural simple present is described as "The plural also affixes a vowel, but of opposite frontness to the root vowel," yet it's "pochô, rotô, têtse" not the "poche, rote, jachâ, têtso" I would expect from the above.
Why can <zh> appear without a vowel?
It's here! Hurrah!
Must sleep, or could read Munkhashi. Will read, and report later.
Edit: The rank system is fascinating. Is that something natural in Munkhashi, or did the Ktuvoks create it?
The plural simple present is described as "The plural also affixes a vowel, but of opposite frontness to the root vowel," yet it's "pochô, rotô, têtse" not the "poche, rote, jachâ, têtso" I would expect from the above.
Why can <zh> appear without a vowel?
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By Calto (or, I should say, by Gelálh), just when I need to get work done, this appears.
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This isn't really a Munkhashi question, but reading that the word ktuvok is an Elkaril borrowing, makes me wonder how it occurred that an Elkaril word got into Verdurian. Especially a word for a concept that a Cadhinorian-descendant culture would find very salient, considering how much Cadhinorian paganism deals with the Ktuvoks as antagonists. I feel like that would be something akin to English borrowing the word for "Satan" from Indonesian or something.
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Why not? It borrowed the word from Hebrew.con quesa wrote:I feel like that would be something akin to English borrowing the word for "Satan" from Indonesian or something.
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Who are exactly the people from whom English-speakers (traditionally anyway) ultimately got their religion. But the Verdurians certainly didn't acquire ktuvok-hatred from the Elkaril.Shm Jay wrote:Why not? It borrowed the word from Hebrew.con quesa wrote:I feel like that would be something akin to English borrowing the word for "Satan" from Indonesian or something.
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I noticed this too. From other examples in the grammar (e.g., Gdurur tsekê drun tetlednadzu) I'm assuming the forms given are correct and the description/diagram of the mutation is in error.Atom wrote:The plural simple present is described as "The plural also affixes a vowel, but of opposite frontness to the root vowel," yet it's "pochô, rotô, têtse" not the "poche, rote, jachâ, têtso" I would expect from the above.
I also notice that the gloss of "Jobat tlar" is missing "city".
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Beasty! I like
In the "numbers" table, it looks like the x^8 column should actually read 8^x. Is this correct?
In the "numbers" table, it looks like the x^8 column should actually read 8^x. Is this correct?
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One minor complaint: From time to time red and green are used contrastively to illustrate two grammatical points in a sentence. The shades you have chosen of these colours are impossible to distinguish for a red-green colourblind person like myself. I also remember this happening in the Old Skourene grammar, don't specifically recall in others.
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Good work, zompist!
But I spotted two errors:
1. The i below the u in the vowel chart must be an o, methinks.
2. The introduction says the language was VOS; the syntax section that it was VSO.
But I spotted two errors:
1. The i below the u in the vowel chart must be an o, methinks.
2. The introduction says the language was VOS; the syntax section that it was VSO.
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Is zompist taking sides in the Oxbridge rivalry?Barkhran Baykhan n a city on a tributary of the Tmekh [‘ox ford’]
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OK, corrections have been made. The plural suffix was intended to work as described, but I messed up when actually using it.
As for Oxbridge, I couldn't have a Cambridge because cams hadn't been invented yet...
As for Oxbridge, I couldn't have a Cambridge because cams hadn't been invented yet...
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It's slightly unexpected, but certainly not implausible. Languages borrow from odd sources, and often when a concept is very common, it will have a big range of synonyms. A taboo concept might also have no common word, or the "official" term might lose out to slang or vernacular descriptions - cf. Romance caballus for Latin equus "horse".con quesa wrote:Who are exactly the people from whom English-speakers (traditionally anyway) ultimately got their religion. But the Verdurians certainly didn't acquire ktuvok-hatred from the Elkaril.Shm Jay wrote:Why not? It borrowed the word from Hebrew.con quesa wrote:I feel like that would be something akin to English borrowing the word for "Satan" from Indonesian or something.
I always took it that the Cadhinorians' vioctet mierae disappeared from their consciousness during the Dark Years and became mythologised, in the same way that the goblins and gremlins of folklore - powerful and malicious beings - were abstracted into story creatures rather than something that was believed to exist.
Duxirti petivevoumu tinaya to tiei šuniš muruvax ulivatimi naya to šizeni.
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SHG is pretty much correct. In Caďinorian times, the salient vioctet were the vioctet mierae, the ktuvoks; but by the Dark Years vyožî generally referrred to the Powers that magicians served. So a pithy and somewhat nasty-sounding word was borrowed (from the Barakhinei, who were more in contact with the elcari).
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That's weird, I deleted SHG's post somehow. At least it's still in cache:
Cousin will be rêlno, rêlsho.
The -la and -mu suffixes always start from the E form. You can usually work backwards, so drêchmu trêch 'ally with’.So Haleza Grise wrote:I like the language a lot - it has the nasty feel about it that we saw in the Shikhar piece, I think. I wish the lexicon was a bit bigger, but I suppose that's consistent with a language we have no written records of.
One point: plut is listed as the verb "grind", but blutla is "mill" and blutmu as the associated action. Is that because it's a despective?
And is there an associated verb for drêchmu?
Is there a word for "cousin"?
Cousin will be rêlno, rêlsho.
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Zompist, you put Oxford on your map of the evil empire. (and the post-Normanization back-etymology of Cam is "crooked")zompist wrote:As for Oxbridge, I couldn't have a Cambridge because cams hadn't been invented yet...
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Yes, but he couldn't have put Cambridge there because cams haven't been invented yet...
Also: no. Yes, "cam" as a river name means "crooked", but not in the case of Cambridge, where it's an evolution of "Cantebrigge" thanks to Norman influence. Cantebrigge itself is a random mutation of the earlier Grantabrigge, the bridge over the Granta river. Cf nearby Grantchester. The modern river name actually derives from the town, not vice versa.
If the name hadn't changed randomly, it would be Grantbridge, which could be the basis of a more subtle inclusion.
Also: no. Yes, "cam" as a river name means "crooked", but not in the case of Cambridge, where it's an evolution of "Cantebrigge" thanks to Norman influence. Cantebrigge itself is a random mutation of the earlier Grantabrigge, the bridge over the Granta river. Cf nearby Grantchester. The modern river name actually derives from the town, not vice versa.
If the name hadn't changed randomly, it would be Grantbridge, which could be the basis of a more subtle inclusion.
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But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
But the river tripped on her by and by, lapping
as though her heart was brook: Why, why, why! Weh, O weh
I'se so silly to be flowing but I no canna stay!
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I'm perfectly happy with Oxford being in the evil empire, and not Cambridge
Also - thanks for the etymology, Sal. Something new every day.
Also - thanks for the etymology, Sal. Something new every day.
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Prolly because it attaches to the following syllable.Atom wrote: Why can <zh> appear without a vowel?
Often placenames indeed develop in strange ways. My neighbourhood's name developed more or less like Krakoczyn > Krokoczyn > Prokoczyn > Prokocim, with few regular changes.Salmoneus wrote:If the name hadn't changed randomly, it would be Grantbridge, which could be the basis of a more subtle inclusion.
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FWIW, I have fond memories of both Oxford and Cambridge. I had lunch in the Inklings' favorite pub, I went punting on both the Cam and the Isis (and was proud of myself for not falling in), and had a nice tea somewhere at the riverside near Cambridge.
In Dhekhnami, zh and wa both cliticize to the next word; it's fair to assume that this was true of Munkhâshi as well. (Dhekhnami zh also assimilates in voicing, but this may not have happened with Munkhâshi.)
In Dhekhnami, zh and wa both cliticize to the next word; it's fair to assume that this was true of Munkhâshi as well. (Dhekhnami zh also assimilates in voicing, but this may not have happened with Munkhâshi.)
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Klhêpat plikil ran, "Gat lit lhach ôthshrawalâ rurumálh piko?
say.D.past bitterly cow / be.E for who create.A.past-pl pl-god this.one.D
The cow lamented: Why did the gods create me?
Dzoteum gdirmu zh gmikmu zh dzômmu piko.
capture.E-pl-intensive war and anger and destruction this.one.D
War, anger and violence imprison me.
Khrath gogotálh zh prashino lhim dhedhlêkno lit piko.
be.A pl-ktuvok and no.man other pl-herd-man for this.one.D
There are no herdsmen for me other than the ktuvoks.
Ôthprôkhen kir mimrima mets piko."
make-follow.A-request to pl-field good this.one.D
May I be led (dragged) to good pastures.
- adapted from Yasna 29, The Cow's Lament, a Zoroastrian Gatha.
Shunshrakhalh (oops, typo: the r didn't appear)
forbidden-to.name.A-one
He who must not be named
corrections pls kthx
Edit: I guess it should be "no herdsmen besides the ktuvoks" or something like that. Huh.
say.D.past bitterly cow / be.E for who create.A.past-pl pl-god this.one.D
The cow lamented: Why did the gods create me?
Dzoteum gdirmu zh gmikmu zh dzômmu piko.
capture.E-pl-intensive war and anger and destruction this.one.D
War, anger and violence imprison me.
Khrath gogotálh zh prashino lhim dhedhlêkno lit piko.
be.A pl-ktuvok and no.man other pl-herd-man for this.one.D
There are no herdsmen for me other than the ktuvoks.
Ôthprôkhen kir mimrima mets piko."
make-follow.A-request to pl-field good this.one.D
May I be led (dragged) to good pastures.
- adapted from Yasna 29, The Cow's Lament, a Zoroastrian Gatha.
Shunshrakhalh (oops, typo: the r didn't appear)
forbidden-to.name.A-one
He who must not be named
corrections pls kthx
Edit: I guess it should be "no herdsmen besides the ktuvoks" or something like that. Huh.
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A few errors:
annoy.E.past that.ideamayor come.A ktuvok (missing space)
know.B physician child (is pmôt supposed to be glossed as "know" in these sentences?)
Ôthkluwam kzhakno mrimno ruch pnakildin.
drop.B.past peasant pitchfork.D
The soldier made the peasant drop his pitchfork.
That's all I remember.
annoy.E.past that.ideamayor come.A ktuvok (missing space)
know.B physician child (is pmôt supposed to be glossed as "know" in these sentences?)
Ôthkluwam kzhakno mrimno ruch pnakildin.
drop.B.past peasant pitchfork.D
The soldier made the peasant drop his pitchfork.
That's all I remember.
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Thanks for finding the typos; they should be corrected now.
You can just say “Ôthshrawalâ lit lhach...?”. The example in the grammar has gat because that's the main verb of the sentence.rotting ham wrote:Klhêpat plikil ran, "Gat lit lhach ôthshrawalâ rurumálh piko?
say.D.past bitterly cow / be.E for who create.A.past-pl pl-god this.one.D
The cow lamented: Why did the gods create me?
Should be Dzotewum (to avoid the double vowel).Dzoteum gdirmu zh gmikmu zh dzômmu piko.
capture.E-pl-intensive war and anger and destruction this.one.D
War, anger and violence imprison me.
I think I'd say Jarul pelkho gogotálh dhedhlêkno..., i.e. there are no herdsmen without the ktuvoks. (Chal is existential ‘be’. As the subject is the herdsmen, it’s demoted to E.)Khrath gogotálh zh prashino lhim dhedhlêkno lit piko.
be.A pl-ktuvok and no.man other pl-herd-man for this.one.D
There are no herdsmen for me other than the ktuvoks.
metsil (as this is a verb).Ôthprôkhen kir mimrima mets piko."
make-follow.A-request to pl-field good this.one.D
May I be led (dragged) to good pastures.
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So would there ever be an occasion to speak about a ktuvok in the E form, or would that invariably be tantamount to insurrection?
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For a human, never, since they can never be in a superior position to a ktuvok.bulbaquil wrote:So would there ever be an occasion to speak about a ktuvok in the E form, or would that invariably be tantamount to insurrection?
A ktuvok could do it, though, in an all-ktuvok conversation. But then they'd probably not be using Munkhashi!
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I suppose Ervëa and Attafei could have used the E form legitimately, but of course they wouldn't have used the language of their enemies. BTW, which language did they use to communicate with each other?
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