Zompist Bboard Again

bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Jul 14, 2019 7:17 pm That does make a lot more sense now — thanks!

Hey, no worries!

So, k1234567890y, what do you yourself think?

A possible TRANSLATION: "SEVEN KILLS" POEM This, for some reason, seems to be floating around a lot. I asked about it, I now have access to the original, and voilà! Jaombe mutukele gasa maguma da Bantu bamakarue. God 5-bring.forth-PRESPERF multitude 4-all so.that 2-human 2-nurture-PASS-SUB...

I have to say, that’s a very pretty script! Hey, many thanks! I actually would disagree with this. I can definitely see the relationship between velars and labiovelars, and between voiceless fricatives and voiced plosives, but I can’t figure out any of the other relationships. Admittedly it's a lit...

Nicely done! The one thing I might recommend to you is possibly adjusting the script a little bit so that the glyphs don’t resemble one another as much. I tried writing out a few sentences with it, and it was a little monotonous after a while--not to mention that for anyone with any kind of dyslexi...

It's the text of a stele allegedly erected by 17th-century Chinese peasant rebel Zhāng Xiànzhōng during his two-year murderous rule of the province of Sichuan. I think people here use it as one of those MurderIsTheBestSolution type of dark-humour jokes as TvTropes would put it (see the quote from D...

Guse linutejo qari leeyine wiyahite jaari. sky give-PAT.P-DIR thing-P many-AGT.P-ATTR grow-CAUS-PAT.P person-P Qa nuhe gaatontejo jaari linudatlawe Guse. thing good-ATTR exist-APPL-NEG-OBJ.P-DIR person-P give-PASS-APPL-ABIL-ATTR sky. Riidhi. Riidhi. Riidhi. Riidhi. Riidhi. Riidhi. Riidhi. die-CAUS ...

Simple one in my case: back when I was starting out in the late 2000s (and give me a break, I was all of ten years old) I wanted to try and represent sounds that weren't normally included in the alphabet, namely [ð] and [ʒ]. So this fellow, instead of asking whether or not there was a way to represe...

I'm trying to decide how to handle compounds that would end up violating phonological rules in my new conlang. The language allows word final nasals, but no finals in internal syllables, so /talam/ is a fine, but /!tamla/ isn't. I want a lot of compounding for word derivation, so /siro/ + /talam/ c...

And the prize goes to... drum roll.... WeepingElf Indeed so. Azdra is second planet out from Alpha Centauri A. Here's an even worse map - I'm not sure anybody will be able to read the legends with the country names, but here you are anyway. Pedant probably can't do anything with these, but you're w...

Nicely done! The one thing I might recommend to you is possibly adjusting the script a little bit so that the glyphs don’t resemble one another as much. I tried writing out a few sentences with it, and it was a little monotonous after a while--not to mention that for anyone with any kind of dyslexia...

Armu girmidoi! Weo wedaina leo yehumu PROP-MES interesting | COND INC-STA.PST-1s NEG know-MES Interesting! I wouldn't have realised that Qumor: Pagaq ustoru. Iqqalupi emmesbaq tidovalerat. Surprise-ADV AOR-true-INT-3sINT // language-INST.PL AUG-NOUN-fly.straight-ADV PRES.CONT.POSS-HAB-see-ACT-1sACT...

next: airplane Kisimbi: kaburuki (12/13) "airplane, flying machine" (*ka+bʊ̀dʊk "to fly"+i "agentive") pitawega (9/10) "aircraft, airship, airplane" (from Vittaurian fitherwaegan "winged vehicle") Salvian: (A quick note: there are no airplanes on Aj...

Good to see this language finally up! Personally, I should very much like to learn more about the world (and what makes these non-humans so different, considering their phonetic inventory seems pretty much identical to that of a human). I can also offer you a redo of your world map, should you wish ...

Here’s one thought for you: how about specialist clans or castes with little to no favouritism and reasonable mobility? The castes would specialize in a particular area (say, life support) then a smaller sub-group (say, oxygen extraction), with everyone given basic knowledge of all functioning parts...

next: sauce Kalo: sumo - juice; sauce; gravy; dressing next: to astonish; to startle Kisimbi: Jitukia, jitus- “to scare, frighten, startle” (*jítʊk+i “causative”) Pambapa, pambap- “to amaze, worry, astonish” (*pámbà+p “copula”) Classical Salvian: TDiN “startle, astonish” Tsin- “to startle, astonish...

A note on VERBS AND PRONOUNS : Conjugation The verb in Ankoseiwas is far, far simpler than its counterpart in most of the other Empath languages, including the Quiramic and Salvian families, and is even (by comparison) simpler than in most other Keeper dialects. Thanks to a variety of sound changes ...

DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY: THE VERB Classical Salvian isn't quite a triconsonantal language, but shares a number of features. For one, it has a large number of affixes which may be attached to the word, causing radically different formations to occur and usually leading to the construction of one or ...

One thing I'll ask you right off the bat: how many roots have you put through this set of transformations? The more information available, the easier you may find it to locate things to tweak. (Also: the dividing line between a complex ablaut system and a triconsonantal root language is relatively f...

I'm pretty sure you invented this, but it looks naturalistic enough. Wouldn't be too surprised if ANADEW Ooh, conlanger terminology! Okay, I've been using this site as a source of most of the basic grammatical information about Proto-Bantu and thus Kisimbi. The demonstratives are on page 107 for re...

I like the demonstratives since I haven't seen egocentric or alterocentric demonstratives before. It's like the inclusive/exclusive distinction you see in 2nd person personal pronouns. Cool. PS. I'm not actually sure if these are their proper names, they were the best I could come up with on short ...