Help your conlang fluency (2)

[Lyra]

pe·e karun thep kaikhakhazi.
It's raining a lot in Bangkok.

~Lyra

[Skomakar'n]

pe·e karun thep kaikhakhazi.
It's raining a lot in Bangkok.

~Lyra

Tikolksatta?
t-ko‹›lk-ˤh-z-ˤttˤ
Is it sufficiently warm and nice, though?
INT-be_dear/warm-3P-INAN-ADVS
[ˈtɯ̯ˈɡɔl̥xs̻ˌɑtːɑ]

[Lyra]

pe·e karun thep kaikhakhazi.
It's raining a lot in Bangkok.

~Lyra

Tikolksatta?
t-ko‹›lk-ˤh-z-ˤttˤ
Is it sufficiently warm and nice, though?
INT-be_dear/warm-3P-INAN-ADVS
[ˈtɯ̯ˈɡɔl̥xs̻ˌɑtːɑ]

ten, the uagakhazuan ro tixelani.
[ten tʰe uaga'kʰazuan ro tiɣe'leni]
neg, 1S passive-rain-p.perf relative neg-beneficial
no, I get rained upon which is not good.

~Lyra

[Skomakar'n]

Tikolksatta?
t-ko‹›lk-ˤh-z-ˤttˤ
Is it sufficiently warm and nice, though?
INT-be_dear/warm-3P-INAN-ADVS
[ˈtɯ̯ˈɡɔl̥xs̻ˌɑtːɑ]

ten, the uagakhazuan ro tixelani.
[ten tʰe uaga'kʰazuan ro tiɣe'leni]
neg, 1S passive-rain-p.perf relative neg-beneficial
no, I get rained upon which is not good.

Ízæh tiusæizdḿzzg?
í‹z›Ø-ˤh t-iw-sǽ‹›z-(ʷ)‹›dd-m-z-jg
So you don't like it when it rains?
to_rain<SUBJ>-3P INT-now-be_glad-CAUS-2P-INAN-NEG
[ˈiːz̻æħ ˈtɪ̯ʊˌs̻æɪ̯z̻dm̩ʑɡ]

[Lyra]

Tikolksatta?
t-ko‹›lk-ˤh-z-ˤttˤ
Is it sufficiently warm and nice, though?
INT-be_dear/warm-3P-INAN-ADVS
[ˈtɯ̯ˈɡɔl̥xs̻ˌɑtːɑ]

ten, the uagakhazuan ro tixelani.
[ten tʰe uaga'kʰazuan ro tiɣe'leni]
neg, 1S passive-rain-p.perf relative neg-beneficial
no, I get rained upon which is not good.

Ízæh tiusæizdḿzzg?
í‹z›Ø-ˤh t-iw-sǽ‹›z-(ʷ)‹›dd-m-z-jg
So you don't like it when it rains?
to_rain<SUBJ>-3P INT-now-be_glad-CAUS-2P-INAN-NEG
[ˈiːz̻æħ ˈtɪ̯ʊˌs̻æɪ̯z̻dm̩ʑɡ]

re theluluape han khazet ro tilobai'o
[ɾe tʰelu'luape han 'khazet ro tilo'baiʔo̞]
if 1S-walk-imperf under rain then neg-good_feeling
If I have to walk in the rain then no.

~Lyra

[Jerian]

ɛnæ oʊ tældoʊ? i ɛnæ sɛlɪn imæ; i tərvæ, ɛnæ solp sɛlɪn.

Are you kidding? I love the rain. I wish it rained more here.

[ol bofosh]

Bik August sifurto to. Pa udak finuyt sifur misa.
this august flow-PRS-PRF dry DEF ground lack-PRS flow wet.
This August has been dry. The land needs rain.

[Leliel]

ɛnæ oʊ tældoʊ? i ɛnæ sɛlɪn imæ; i tərvæ, ɛnæ solp sɛlɪn.
Are you kidding? I love the rain. I wish it rained more here.

Aht hiseta iat ysoi tayka vankuvahla natseire?
Q believe 2SM-DIR REL rain-DIR Vancouver-GEN sufficient-NEG
You think that Vancouver doesn't get enough rain?

Naikia iatot, ahnah kiokysahla mumusa senoi...
admit 2SM-ACC sky-DIR recent-time-GEN very.poor-DIR however
Granted, lately the weather has been crap, but...

[ol bofosh]

I saw a stone with a poem written about the rain of Vancouver.

[masako]

pana ke kiue ehek ampu yoha
Rain has an odor but not a smell.

[Lyra]

pana ke kiue ehek ampu yoha
Rain has an odor but not a smell.

Kjorn erä ágarem ubhelad.
Now you're nitpicking.

~Lyra

[masako]

a
Yes.

[Kereb]

Are you kidding? I love the rain. I wish it rained more here.

sīnoh nāh mēn e ba bat waban yan?! chā`ānti `op ba ninits tsō`ī yōkwī!
really even after this summer?! it didn't even get warm before halfway through July!

sīnoh `an bul e kweBankūba shetschī`, chumti`im i waban saltayal
even for me as a born Vancouverite, there hasn't been enough of a summer yet

wa`nah chol, le lashlet i yōyel kwe?
where do you come from, that eight months of rain is too little?

[Jerian]

sīnoh nāh mēn e ba bat waban yan?! chā`ānti `op ba ninits tsō`ī yōkwī!
really even after this summer?! it didn't even get warm before halfway through July!

sīnoh `an bul e kweBankūba shetschī`, chumti`im i waban saltayal
even for me as a born Vancouverite, there hasn't been enough of a summer yet

wa`nah chol, le lashlet i yōyel kwe?
where do you come from, that eight months of rain is too little?

Hel; E ena edi'elistah remina; kaloris E torrayn
Come on; I've been doing sports this whole summer, the weather hasn't stopped me.

Mu'tuhar, E ena "Whytecliff Park" ralan.
Yesterday I was swimming at Whytecliff Park

Ebeln; E edi'kut Vancouver setira; E enay kaloris imay
Likewise, I've always lived in Vancouver; I don't mind the weather.

[Jerian]

Aht hiseta iat ysoi tayka vankuvahla natseire?
Q believe 2SM-DIR REL rain-DIR Vancouver-GEN sufficient-NEG
You think that Vancouver doesn't get enough rain?

Orb; E en'edal selin ima.
No; I actually just happen to really like the rain.

[finlay]

When you capitalize a single letter first person pronoun, it makes your conlang look like a cypher of English, you know. (and we only do it because lowercase i looks ugly on its own)

[Jerian]

When you capitalize a single letter first person pronoun, it makes your conlang look like a cypher of English, you know. (and we only do it because lowercase i looks ugly on its own)

I know. tbh, I don't want to have to do it either, but I've made it force of habit. I don't do it when I'm writing with the Zarian alphabet though.

[masako]

When you capitalize a single letter first person pronoun, it makes your conlang look like a cypher of English, you know. (and we only do it because lowercase i looks ugly on its own)

ta ke uatla hikahe
You need to stop saying that.

The capital "I" has nothing to do with aesthetics, it came about as a way of avoiding misreading handwritten manuscripts. It's a functional development, not an aesthetic one.

[ná'oolkiłí]

Tsik dzilap ʇ’utsuru gaa’uma.
[ˈtsʰik̚ ˈdzilap̚ ˈkǀʼutsuɾu ˈɠaːʔuma]
ts=ikʰ dzid̪ʱ=a=pə kǀʼ<uts'>u=ru gaxa=ʔu=ma
AUX:IMP=I.ABS work=AFF.REAL=1S.NOM new<II>=II:OBL language=INDEF=on
I'm working on a new language.

[----]

Kaáipoabatihimo nainokà.
It looks interesting.

[Nortaneous]

<ʇ> /kl/?

[----]

Those darn ambiguous click representations

[Nortaneous]

Fiálls errifálon fállong!
[ˈfjæʰɬs ɪʰʃˈfʌɫn̩ ˈfʌɫŋ̩]
...Goddamnit!

[Skomakar'n]

Fiálls errifálon fállong!
[ˈfjæʰɬs ɪʰʃˈfʌɫn̩ ˈfʌɫŋ̩]
...Goddamnit!

Kuws œyhmýljæiluwkksami!
kú‹›w-ˤh-z œ́‹›m-hmý‹›l-jǽ‹›Ø-lú‹›wgg-ˤh-z-ˤ‹m›i
That's a good orthography you've got there!
be_good-3P-INAN to_say-to_carve-be_together-to_work/play_out-3P-INAN-OBJ<2P>
[kʊws̻ ˈœ̃ʏ̯̃hpm̥yːljæɪ̯ɾʊwxːs̻ˌɑmɯ̯]

[Nortaneous]

Well, it's writing dialect as standard; standard is completely phonemic. (It'd be ifálls errifálan fállong [jĭˈfaʰɬs ɪʰɾ̥jĭˈfɑɫɐn ˈfɑʰɬŋ̩] there.)

<i y u> are used to write both semivowels and vowels, because the 'vowels' are actually syllabic consonants (which is why they can't appear in stressed position); the other syllabic consonants are written <om on ong> etc., because <o> has no other use.

Doubled consonants were geminated, but are now preaspirated pretty much everywhere, besides the border dialects, where they did something very Arve-influenced that I haven't worked out yet. The only other difference is that Cerrais Kett fricated a lot of /r/ and fucked with the vowels a bit.