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MONOBA wrote:The nasalized vowel simply does not have distinction between open, closed, short or long because it is always the result of -un-/-um- or -on-/-om- + C (so it is always short and closed).
Ah. You should probably add that to the grammar, because the impression that I got from the chart, at least, was that it could appear in other positions.
It looks like Sámi and Lithuanian had a baby that ran away to North America and got shared about between a bunch of Algonquian languages who dressed it in very pretty clothing to disguise its non-North-American-ish-ness...
Wow! That is indeed very close to what happened! However, Lithuania was not involved. I don't know who the father was, but he must have been one handsome dude.
By the way, I keep updating the blog pretty frequently.
I'll try to gloss the latest entries tonight. And work on correcting the verbal morphology section. I might be able to show you a pretty close to finish-version soon enough.
Now I will give you advice should you ever burn your skin.
First you will have to find bright white birch (bark), to wrap around the wound. Then you will have to make a deep cut into a balsam fir from which to collect the resin. The resin will be used as an ointment into the wound, which will then be wrapped tightly with sinew. You will have to open the roll every morning and evening, and you will have to rinse away the layer of dead (skin) with fresh water. Do as this says until the skin scars into new pink skin (lit. newfallen snow skin).
Haha. Well I'm working hard and keep on adding more and more to the "book". I'm just at the beginning of verbs now, and I guess I will keep showing you the progress as I go along. The ultimate goal remains to have a book I can hold in my hands, bring everywhere and eventually learn the god damn language to fluency with. But maybe I'm being too ambitious.
So far this is how I see the book being (bold is completed, whether updated or not):
1. Introduction to the project
2. Introduction to the Alopian language family and Siwa
2a. Introduction to the geography of the land
2b. Siwa culture
2c. Siwa history 3. Phonology
4. Noun Morphology
5. Adjective Morphology
6. Adverb Morphology
7. Conjunctions
8. Postpositions
9. Verb Morphology
10. Pronouns
11. Numbers
12. Syntax
12a. Noun phrase
12b. Verb phrase
13. Derivation 14. Texts
14a. Conversation 15. Dictionary
16. Lexicon
18. Modernisation
19. ??
20. Profit
I remember seeing something (was it a draft) about your verbal morphology.
Also, if you're going to publish that book, maybe print on demand, I'm so buying.
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I have hundreds of pages to correct, reorganize, rewrite and then change the layout of it all. It's a lot of work, and I can go weeks without conlanging.
Now I will give you advice should you ever burn your skin.
First you will have to find bright white birch (bark), to wrap around the wound. Then you will have to make a deep cut into a balsam fir from which to collect the resin. The resin will be used as an ointment into the wound, which will then be wrapped tightly with sinew. You will have to open the roll every morning and evening, and you will have to rinse away the layer of dead (skin) with fresh water. Do as this says until the skin scars into new pink skin (lit. newfallen snow skin).
I like it. It sounds like a combination of Finnish and Korean.