Substantial postings about constructed languages and constructed worlds in general. Good place to mention your own or evaluate someone else's. Put quick questions in C&C Quickies instead.
Nate wrote:
Kivmə yame mēm ī ta ayōm.
[g=to.ask]kiv[/g][g=NMZ]m[/g] [g=to.be.good]yam[/g][g=ADJ]e[/g] [g=idea]mēm[/g] [g=to.be][/g] [g=REL]ta[/g] [g=to.think]ayōm[/g]
I think it's a good idea to ask. XD
Ba mahu ene. Ahe teity.
I'm sure. It *was* a date.
Əśta xal to sā ispal!
ś
to.do
ta
-PST
xa
to.be.good
r
-ADV
to
REL
sā
1
ispar
to.hope
Hope it went well!
Du ene zuos ahe. be.thought DAT.1s.MASC NOM.C be.indeed
I think it did.
Kas egue ligo ja na. PROS be.again join NOM.3s.DEF.MASC NOM.1s.MASC
We're going to see each other again.
Ha vai li gue te to tebi mei kuajo ka nayo na xi elia womeiniany. Q remain become excede be.good and.then be.possible INCEP be.reason BEN.C study NOM.1s.MASC ACC.3s.DEF.INAN.REL be.language be.Romanian.
If it keeps progressing well then I might have a reason to learn Romanian at some stage.
Ам ѧшрав нёй дзѫй либай текстѫ. Чи кот гδай либай ѫ фравδиδ? Am ęšrav ńoj dząj libaj tekstą. Či kot gdhaj libaj ą fravdhidh?
I'm writing in a new conlang. Can you guess which language it's descended from?
(I'm probably not going to go anywhere with this and I completely halfassed this but w/e)
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Ѧѳ неδа нѫш квелна. Ѧѳ твѧда неδа нѫш кшиδа. Ęth nedha nąš kvelna. Ęth tvęda nedha nąs kšidha.
That's not the right area. That's almost not the right continent.
Yeah I can already see now that this conlang isn't gonna work, giving up on it. The idea was to have a descendant of Lydian end up in Bulgaria but it's ugly as hell and it'd have to be like 90% loanwords anyway so fuck it. I didn't realize when I came up with the idea that every other consonant in Lydian is /ð/. I guess I could've gotten rid of them but Albanian and Greek both have them.
vuc thezyw w'a rac, ti'au the mêst britisch conlang
[vuk ðəˈziu̯ wa rak, tʃau̯ ðə mɛːst britiʃ kanlɛŋ]
(ti'am stil a undryn if yê cun Pembrosch wy no translasion rêd, zo ti'am noa vryten)
hm, maybe i shouldn't develop the aspect distinction -- does welsh have one? if so, how's it formed? i should look up whether yola has one. also you will notice that pembrish has no [e:] -- this is because [e:] is terrible and also i cannot pronounce it.
Initial fricative voicing, short /i u/ can be centralized to [ɪ ʊ], preposition-article sequences frequently contract (cf. Yola ta < at a, and Pembrish noa < ne + oa(n)... which exactly parallels English, doesn't it, though it's less limited in Pembrish), sporadic consonant loss in common words (following Yola theezil etc. in the reflexives), and Pembrish never underwent the vowel shift and didn't develop compensatory length when it lost its schwas. (Length in Pembrish is pretty marginal anyway, and probably in the process of being lost. Maybe it'll turn into quality or something.)
Salmoneus wrote:(NB Dewrad is behaving like an adult - a petty, sarcastic and uncharitable adult, admittedly, but none the less note the infinitely higher quality of flame)
Φινία όμνια εξάμινα μει φινάλη! Ακώ αίω υν δη λη βακασσίας, Phinía omnia exámina mi phinali! Akó eo yn di li vakassías.
I finished all my exams at least! Now I have one day of holiday.
