Zompist Bboard Again

And coming up, THE SEALANDERS : https://i.imgur.com/ZFOsEXc.png Sealand, with the most prominent confederacies and city-states in white Running along the northwestern coast of the continent of Pelia is a long strip of dense forest, some of the most pristine on the planet. From the Bilasáano Peninsul...

vegfarandi wrote: ↑Fri Aug 09, 2019 4:59 pm Very cool! Do you have a website that houses all of this as well?

Many thanks! And indeed I do--or at least I will...it’s the Midnight Sun website, still under construction but increasing every day (I’ll try and finish about a page a day now).

Thanks for all of this, guys. linguistcat, well, that may be difficult in my current situation, but I’ll try. Vijay, I think I’ll try those subreddits; they sound like fun, to be honest. Pabappa, thanks for the wishes, and to elaborate: I get a terrible pressure buildup in my head from even everyday...

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by the first question. What is your history of learning French and Turkish? How did you learn them, when, how much, etc.? I’ve been learning Turkish since I was two, and French since I was nine. Unfortunately I’ve forgotten most of the vocabulary and some of the ...

Okay, so this board is probably not the absolute best to be asking for medical advice, but given that there are so many language enthusiasts around here it might be worth a shot. According to MRI scans I seem to have severe demyelination in a number of places in my brain, which not only makes me mor...

Next up, the QUMOR : https://i.imgur.com/5H0pKgk.png The World of the Winged People Gift magic is an instinct on Salvi, and it is born of change in a specific feature of the landscape as much as it is from the movement of the Second Sun, Kasar. For the Salvians, it is the great volcanoes that stradd...

Right now, my basic rules for morphology are these: - Verbs: root + -a - Adjectives: root + -i - Adverbs: root + -u - Nouns can have any ending other than the above suffixes. There are some exceptions, like some adjectives ending with -y or -yn, and some adverbs with -ui, for example. So for instan...

I'd like to see a taxonomic language along the lines of my own Late Andanese but more pure. It would probably work best if it were a standalone language, free from a conworld, because it would be highly unnatural for any language not of this type to evolve into one that is. The basic idea is that e...

Classical Salvian:
Bakhir jhaksēryēs sāu, matt!
Be-INT-3pA hundred.birthday-NOM.PL 2s-GEN / matt
Many happy returns, matt!

Ashenacom Dialect 1:
Gaxenupuntim chön jixir yush chaak!
Drink-SUBJ.OBJ-2s-PERF milk behemoth ABL OBV
Wishing you much wisdom as you age!

The Ashenacom are a grasslands people, and have been for many thousands of years. Unlike their Hemeraean counterparts, the Mà Qul and Duun Nam peoples, they do not ride horses. Instead, the animal of choice is the camelopard, cyphion ferus caballus , a relative of the Salvian boskoe, with cloven hoo...

I have to say for something created for a 48 hour challenge you've got quite a long way in what 2-3 months! Proper incentive, my good colleague--and I’m mature enough to admit that the proper incentive was the likelihood that it would actually be seen and commented on. Plus, it’s just kind of a fun...

FlamyobatRudki wrote: ↑Sun Jul 28, 2019 4:27 pm Yawnnn......... Sound inventory is so tiny.... compared to what I was expecting.

I never said particularly large, just terrifying...

You’ll have to forgive my saying so, but...yipe, that’s a terrifying phonology.

A note on THE NINE ARTS : The Keepers of Akotvyah, since before their Exodus from the Great Southern Jungle, have long held nine Arts ( osoli, sohole- ) to be the pinnacle of human development, each formed through some combination of body, heart, and soul, representing the three elements of form, fl...

Quick call for help...
I need to find a way to get my vocabulary up for my various languages, but it doesn’t really seem to come that easily to me; the words keep turning out ugly. Any strategies you guys might recommend?

mèþru wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2019 12:40 pm I think we can milk the current text longer but no one's posting.
Also, can we make this an all language thread?

Which language did you have in mind?

Right now it looks like you've got the bare-bone essentials of the language, which is good, but it needs fleshing out. Make up some new vocabulary words, preferably ones that a) are general-purpose words, b) tell us something about the speakers and their culture, or c) both. Find exceptions to the r...

A note on THE SYLLABARY AND NUMBERS The Kisimbi Syllabary The Kisimbi Syllabary ( Ikási "our glyphs"; also Bisóno waBarúme , "Badume symbols"), originally derived from Wasiketian hieroglyphs, is the most commonly-used writing system across the Jungle Federation, in competition wi...

Ah, what the heck, I’ll give it a go anyways. So, first off, what we know about the island’s (and language’s) history: The modern language bears much resemblance to Manx. The Romans were driven off the island after setting up a small camp near Ballahoo in the east. At this point in time it would not...

So, in the same veins as my Kad'k project, I was curious as to whether anyone would be interested in a variation on the Sudric language from Reverend W. Awdry's The Railway Series ? The corpus is far, far smaller, of course, but there's enough there to start work on a language. It doesn't even have ...