Siwa: A Descriptive Grammar

[MONOBA]

Hey! I've been working on the single biggest update on my Siwa grammar in years and it's nearly over, so I thought I'd share. This is all I have on the language. It's a 517 page grammar, including lexicon, texts in Siwa and English, a grammar and a provisory map. The whole book has been proofread, corrected, updated and reorganised (all by myself, excluding the phonology as of now). It contains a lot of information, but it still lacks the first few chapters on the language itself.

Siwa is a project of many years, a hyperrealistic apriori conlang spoken in pre-columbian Quebec by native americans of European origin. It's probably one of the biggest and most detailed conlangs out there, as far as I know.

Enjoy and do let me know what you think!

[Herr Dunkel]

Oh my. I've been waiting on this for some time; always been a fan of yours
Will have to read through it when I come back home

[Astraios]

^, and I do like it a lot, but I would say you need to do another proofreading (yes, I know it's not exactly easy to proofread that many pages of stuff you've already written yourself, but there's quite a lot of places where you've copypasted something and forgotten to change like one letter, or where the English is just not right).

[MONOBA]

Like I said, the phonology has not been proofread yet (doing it now) because it's just boring. Everything else has been proofread, but by myself, so there's bound to be plenty of mistakes left. If you notice anything specific, do let me know.

EDIT:

Phonology updated! Pfew, only took a couple of hours....

[Hydroeccentricity]

Is this the same Siwa that was featured on the conlangery podcast about a year ago? I'm scrolling through the pdf now, and it looks amazing!

If you talk to me in Siwa, that would be a good motivation for me to actually finish it. Like a puzzle!

[MONOBA]

Yes, the same, but more finished You can try to see if you understand this


Inta, tvonuata on, įủttubitua netta. Kyṡaṡina, sviduna-ḥa ůatta.

[Herr Dunkel]

My god is this huge, this'll take a while to leaf through

[vec]

Why does your name sound so familiar? Have we met?

[MONOBA]

Við höfum ladrei hist en ég veit rúmlega hver þú ert, eða að þú ert allavega íslendingur. Held við séum vinir á twitter, en ég er ekki virkur þar.

[vec]

Aha! Það er Twitter! Og þú þekkir líka hana Ásu, er það ekki?

[MONOBA]

Nei, held ekki. Hver er það?

[MONOBA]

I am so excited! I just went and got the first bound (second) draft of the Siwa Grammar! It looks mighty nice. Just thought I'd share! I'm busy with school now, so I've not been working much on it, but if my last christmas holiday is any clue, as soon as school is over, I should be going back to spending 90% of my waking life working on it.



Woohoo!

[Bristel]

Wow, awesome! Must feel great to have a bound copy of what you've worked so hard on.

[Sevly]

Congrats! Have to say I'm kinda jealous.

[WeepingElf]

Impressive.

[Ienpw_III]

What did you use to typeset this document?

[Ketumak]

I saw this thread before I went out this morning. I remember the podcast vaguely, so flipped through the pdf and downloaded it. This is staggeringly good stuff. I shall work my way through it, albeit slowly.

[MONOBA]

@lenpw_III

The English is in Helvetica light and the rest is in Helvetica.

And thank you for your kind words I'm finally done with school for summer so I'll be able to spend some time working on this more, finishing the third draft, which hopefully will be the last one!

[WeepingElf]

@lenpw_III

The English is in Helvetica light and the rest is in Helvetica.

I think lenpw_III wanted to know which software you used.

[MONOBA]

Yeah, that would make more sense. I used Pages! Do not recommend!

[Bristel]

Yeah, that would make more sense. I used Pages! Do not recommend!

Ehehehe. That's the only "proper" word processor I have, besides TextEdit. (which TextEdit seems to provide a cleaner look occasionally, and is just basic formatting for note purposes)

[jal]

It start with chapter 3. Is this intended, or am I missing something?


JAL

[MONOBA]

You are missing the first two chapters

[jal]

You are missing the first two chapters ;)

The funny thing is, they're also not in the table of contents (just white pages). Something wrong with the document/download then.


JAL

[Dē Graut Bʉr]

Chapter one: front page.

Chapter two: table of contents.

Nothing's missing.