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[Xephyr]

Yeah I just lost all will to continue this arguement, fine, you win, Latin is a coequal script for Russian, every slavic language uses apostrophes to indicate palatalistion, if someone writes a language in any script they're automatically perfectly literate in that language despite not knowing the most common script for that language, anything else I was arguing.

Drydic, have you ever considered a career in politics?

[Drydic]

Yeah, but I have a conscience.

[Solarius]

I decided to revive a largely dead thread rather than waste space.

According to the Kebreni Grammar:

Cađinorization eventually replaced Monkhayic languages everywhere except two areas, Kebri (plus some regions of Érenat and, till recently, the island of Koto) and Monkhay, the mountainous southwestern corner of Dhekhnam.

Is it Kebreni that is spoken in Érenat, or some local Met'aiun language?

The me :sh aism grammar says:

The cycles can be strikingly different from one another. Not only men and ilii, but stranger beings may dominate a cycle: there have been cycles of birds and of talking cats.

Do these talking cats have anything to do with the rifters?

Thank you for sharing Almea with us.

[zompist]

Is it Kebreni that is spoken in Érenat, or some local Met'aiun language?

It's a local version of Kebreni. (It dates from the Kebreni conquest of Érenat, not from pre-Cadhinor times.)

Do these talking cats have anything to do with the rifters?

Interesting thought! There isn't a whole lot of information available, but I can't say I've found everything that relates to the old myths. Wede:i is quite tiresome to read.

[finlay]

me :sh aism

zompist why have you not got rid of these damn emoticon kludges? eugh, it's horrible.

[Aurora Rossa]

You don't necessarily need to get rid of them, but it would make sense to revise them somehow to fit better with the text. Perhaps you could resize or realign them, or perhaps set it up so that it puts the actual text character in there instead of a picture.

[finlay]

You don't necessarily need to get rid of them,

No, no, you really do.

[zompist]

Just use your Unicode.

[finlay]

Just use your Unicode.

[dhok]

Surely there's a Unicode app we can just add to the board?

[Exez]

An here's another question.

Is anywhere in the Metaverse or the Almeopedia any other trace of a Methaiun/Monkhayic language other than Methaiun and Kebreni in the Kebreni language page?

[zompist]

Just traces-- e.g check the Count of Years commentary as well as place names given a Methaiun etymology. E.g. one known difference in southern Methaiun is the loss of γ.

[Solarius]

Zompist, what natlangs have influenced your conlangs?

[zompist]

Let's see.. to start wtih, the 5000 languages I've amassed here. I've used that list for numbers, for number systems, for sound changes, and for random words.

I can't reconstruct a lot of influences, because I'll look up some topic in linguistics and not record the source of the natlang examples.

Other than that, here's some I'm sure about:

Proto-Indo-European, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English, Dutch, German, Swedish, Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Sanskrit, Hindi, Persian
Hungarian, Finnish, Basque
Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Tamil
Swahili, Yoruba, Nimbia, Krongo
Old Chinese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay, Japanese, Ainu, Korean
Dyirbal, Kewa
Nishnaabemwin, Fox, Shasta, Cheyenne, Apache, Choctaw, Unalit, Quechua, Aymara, Piraha
Klingon, Sindarin, Dwarvish, Westron, Esperanto, Lojban, Wilkins's analytical language