Zompist Bboard Again

surprise (trans.), coxi need (trans.), mag explain (trans.), lehha seven, yola stele, monolith, siga Coxitaleeyema ha magta ha lehhataye ha ta siga t'awraadat yola. surprise-PASS-INST-PRES-PAT.1.S COMP need-PASS COMP explain-PASS-PRES COMP COP stele die-CAUS-ACTION-GEN seven I am surprised that it ...

Direct-inverse is pretty simple. The personhood/animacy/topicality hierarchy is as follows: The first most basic hierarchy is the personhood/nominal hierarchy: 1st person 1st+2nd person 2nd person demonstratives proper nouns common nouns The second hierarchy after that is the animacy hierarchy: anim...

sky, siima give, yaalu things (coll.), d'at myriad, yiseka nurture, wohade humankind, gaare have, own, possess, enna good, wot return, eeta die, t'aw Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka ha wohadetafa gaare. give-DAT-HAB-PAT.3.P.INAN sky things myriad COMP nuture-PASS-PAT.3.S.ANIM humankind Ennadinut'a ga...

• new, gani

Taye zo fad'ama gani.
COP-PRES PROX.S.INAN language-POSS.1.S new
This is my new language.

Demonstratives and interrogatives: sg. du. pl. prox. anim. da kit ki prox. inan. qo gat ga dist. anim. dan katan kan dist. inan. qon gotan gon inter. anim. fa rot ro inter. inan. be nat na Note that there are no non-demonstrative independent 3rd person pronouns. Independent 1, 1+2, and 3 pronouns sg...

equals, copula, ta language variety, fad'a to bore, qham bad, yoh to mean, wanni just, merely, sun Wanniziyet'a sun ha qhamaniziye fad'a ha taye yoh. mean-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES-NEG merely COMP bore-APSS-AGT.3.S.INAN-PRES language COMP COP-PRES bad Just because a language is boring does not mean it is b...

Here are some nominalizers: action: - daa agent, instrument: after a vowel, add - k and shorten the vowel if long, after a consonant, add - uk patient: after a vowel, add - gyi and shorten the vowel if long, after a consonant, add - yi place, after a vowel, add - hwa and shorten the vowel if long, a...

Another example:

• a moment ago: cola
• pizza: ficca
• a moderate amount: aqwa

Yooric'am aqwa ficcat cola.
eat-LOC-AGT.1.S some pizza-GEN moment.ago
I just ate some pizza

Here is another example: burn (intr.): ruuh house: q'oma lightning: tik'aa complementizer: ha when (lit. time): fera hit (trans.): gich Ruuhraatac'a q'omahi fera hat gich tik'aa. burn-CAUS-PASS-LOC house-POSS.1+2.P time COMP.GEN hit lightning Our house burned when it was hit by lightning.

This language makes heavy use of relational nouns, which are typically also body parts, combined with applicatives. Here are some examples: above (lit hair): niiha top (lit. head): qot front (lit. breast): zet'a middle (lit. stomach): goole back (lit. back): yoxa bottom (lit. buttocks): faka below (...

I am in complete agreement here with the above.

I should note that this language also exhibits fluid-intransitivity for a subset of verbs (i.e. those that are lexically intransitive, as opposed to lexically transitive verbs which must take antipassive or passive marking to reduce their valency).

bradrn wrote: ↑Tue May 14, 2024 3:51 pm Was this by any chance inspired by the conversation with Ahzoh over on the Conlang Random Thread?

Slightly, but I do like playing around with alignments a lot.

An example sentence

• herder: xaala
• goat (collective): nitku
• tiger: saha
• eat: yoori

Yooriwim nitkun xaalat saha
eat-PAT.3.P.ANIM-INV goat.COLL-ACC herder-GEN tiger
The herder's goats were eaten by the tiger.

I figured I would play around some with a conlang that is now named fad'ami , literally "our (exclusive) language", so here goes. Provisional phonology /m n/ <m n> /b d dz/ <b d j> /ɓ ɗ/ <b' d'> /tʰ tsʰ kʰ qʰ/ <t c k q> /tʼ tsʼ kʼ qʼ/ <t' c' k' q'> /f s x χ/ <f s h x> /z ɣ/ <z g> /ɾ l/ <r ...

As for the other point, about who is indigenous... I think you might be missing the point. This is in direct response to claims that either Jews are white Europeans or Khazars or whatever -- and to claims that there's no such thing as Palestinians, that they're Jordanians or Egyptians or whatnot. O...

This seems to actually be an area where my own dialect is syntactically distinct from Standard English, as when approximating Standard English I would never say anything resembling either version of mine, but rather would say: I would have never gotten my system cryptolocked if I had not downloaded...

foxcatdog wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2024 10:36 pm *m *n
*mʲ *nʲ
*p *k
*pʲ *kʲ
*ts
*s *ʃ
*l *l̃
*w̃ *w *j̃ *j

*ĩ *ũ
*ẽ *õ
*ɛ̃ *ɔ̃
*ã

*e *o
*a

I assume this is from one of your conlangs (since practically no language has more nasalized monophthongs than un-nasalized monophthongs).

Calling anyone who is right of social democrats "fascist" really dilutes the meaning of the word and renders it meaningless. Just because one does not agree with all of Biden's foreign policy positions does not make him a "fascist". Likewise, referring to both Biden and Trump as ...

Other fun in this sort of department are things like: I'd've never've gotten my box cryptolocked if I hadn't've downloaded that "antivirus" program from that site. To me, this feels almost like aspectual agreement! It doesn’t work in my dialect, though: it feels very much like a feature o...