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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. Also, the noun class system is inspirational since I'm working on a conlang w/ Bantu-esque concords. Many th...

The only thing you might be conceivably missing is that the land-based Akotvyans never really stay in their villages proper during awful weather. Tides are high in this world, so a house by the shore on stilts is absolutely a necessity for coastal living. The folks inhabiting the houses, though, te...

masako wrote: ↑Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:46 am
na ma'a taueto peteson nya kalamyakema muyanko
I'm working with David Peterson on a conlang project.

Akkutusvag añçhal.
Path.magic-INST.SING 1s-awe-Ø
That's amazing!

Arkut la hopasva?
Q.path T journey-GEN.2s
How did it happen?

Uvaurāssairīn uhgaurki!
Canada-ESS.birth.PERF-ACC.SING 1px-see.PERF-PERF-3s
We celebrated Canada Day!

I'd expect the locative to replace the classifier of any placename....is the concatenation modeled after Bantu? As much as was possible...I’m largely working off a grammar of Proto-Bantu I found, then tweaking it for various bits and bobs. Not sure if other Bantu languages have irregular verb stems...

BASIC SYNTAX AND DEMONSTRATIVES In this section, the following abbreviations will be used: S for noun, L for locative, A for adjective, N for numeral, C for connective, D for demonstrative, P for possessive, V for verb, I for infinitive, R for relative clause, E for general clause, and F for a misc...

Diba reminds me either of Falafel from Kevin Sorbo's Hercules , or the cabbage merchant from Avatar: the Last Airbender . Mostly the former. Oddly enough I've never heard of the former, although I am certainly familiar with the latter. In this case, Most Multitudinous Diba is practically a cut-and-...

I've missed this thread somehow -- which is a pity. It looks quite interesting. I have to ask though, what exactly is a clonemaster? Many thanks! As a brief answer to your question: a clonemaster ( ahoyas, hasoya ) is a person entrusted with the ancient art of hive-mind cloning. Using a particular ...

COLOURS Understanding the meaning behind colours is key to opening up Kisimbi society for business and other purposes. The Basimbi, although not superstitious per se, do place a lot of emphasis in the colours and patterns of their clothing and decorations. In previous centuries, one could sew toget...

next: full moon Classical Salvian: hampatanā , hampatanā- “full moon” (hampa “full, whole”+tanā “moon”) Kankaari hammatan , hammatana- Visauran hámbatanaa Kisimbi: jigíma súngi “whole moon, healthy moon” Qumor: khivrera “it is impossible that it has been made to fade at this time (and that is neith...

vegfarandi wrote: ↑Wed Jun 26, 2019 4:41 pm A little confused what you're after. Are you looking for information on the study of furniture across different cultures?

You have hit the nail on its proverbial head!

A note on NOMINAL DECLENSION : Proto-Empath, the language from which Salvian and Ankoseiwas are derived, is usually reconstructed with twelve noun classes, with categories for masculine/feminine/neuter and animate/inanimate/ethereal/miscellaneous. Classical Salvian has preserved these; however, thro...

Thanks for the responses. One of my dreams is writing a grammar of a fictional Bantu language from the perspective of a stuffy American missionary, and I'm always thinking of ways to make the idea better. But now I know at least among this crowd there's no interest in this sort of thing, based on t...

VERB CONJUGATION AND PRONOUNS Suffix-Based Verb Conjugation In addition to the suffixing morphology above, Kisimbi also has five verb endings representing different tenses and moods. The simple tense, -a , is the infinitive form of most verbs. There are some very few exceptions where the simple ten...

...begging your pardon, but if you’re trying to get a sense of resolution without a resolution actually needed, why not go for the poetic version? Say, Arc of Silence? And then through the story you can show things getting quieter and quieter and eventually fading away completely, a demonstration th...

DERIVATIONAL MORPHOLOGY Verbs-from-Nouns/Adjectives (Suffixes) There were a number of suffixes in Proto-Badume, and also in Old Kibungo, for deriving new verbs from non-verbs. None of these are now functional in modern Kisimbi, but it’s worth knowing about them anyway. -ad- : expansion of core defi...

A post for requests for information, and (hopefully) answers in the form of books, articles, documentaries, and the like. Please, I do beg of you all, feel free to post your own questions--and feel equally free (if not more so) to post answers, or even just interesting con-worlding sources. My actua...

Ars Lande wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:08 am I suppose it's been done before, but I don't remember seeing many Bantu-inspired conlangs.
(A project of mine was sort of like Lingala but I ended up a little dissatisfied with it and I haven't touched it for some time.)

...huh. Odd, that.

SOUND CHANGES The history of the Kisimbi language goes back some three thousand years, to Proto-Badume (*Proto-Bantu); since that time, surrounded first by the savanna and then by jungle cities, it has slowly but surely undergone a number of changes. These are the changes that occurred in the diale...

Ars Lande wrote: ↑Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:13 am Just dropping by here

I think it's too early to make any meaningful comments, but I'm really happy to see someone finally taking on the unexplored African conlangs, so kudos!

Ta!
...wait, nobody’s done this sort of thing before? You’re kidding, right?