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Not even bothering with fiddling with the <a> in the title. Sorry.

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?

By Calto (or, I should say, by Gelálh), just when I need to get work done, this appears.
But every cloud has a silver lining.

AVE ZOMP!

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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con quesa- firm believer in the right of Spanish cheese to be female if she so chooses

"There's nothing inherently different between knowing who Venusaur is and knowing who Lady Macbeth is" -Xephyr

Beasty! I like

In the "numbers" table, it looks like the x^8 column should actually read 8^x. Is this correct?

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.

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.

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ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A

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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...

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Duxirti petivevoumu tinaya to tiei šuniš muruvax ulivatimi naya to šizeni.

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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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.

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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!

I'm perfectly happy with Oxford being in the evil empire, and not Cambridge

Also - thanks for the etymology, Sal. Something new every day.

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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.)

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.

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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.

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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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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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