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Please don't call intersex people hermaphrodites. It's a very rude term when applied to humans. My apologies. I haven't used the terms much before, and I only learned the word "hermaphrodite" in the traditional sense of "person who has both male and female reproductive organs." ...

A note on GEOGRAPHY : https://i.imgur.com/XAQoyAP.png The Archipelago of Akotvyah/Onkĩlemowas Akotvyah, the general international name for the archipelago, lies along the convergent boundary of the Pelian and Akotvian Plates, and was formed around thirty million years ago as the Salvian plate moved ...

So...are there actual remains of giant tree roots scattered around Súrya, or are they now more conventional rocks?

Guys, why are you calling the threads for your conlangs "scratchpads"? The original idea behind scratchpads was to have a scratchpad per user to put multiple sketches in, likely of unrelated constructed languages... ...ah. Really? Honestly that I didn’t know. What would be a better word t...

Created for dewrad's 48-hour conlang challenge! EDIT: now with a Table of Contents : 1. Geography 2. Seasons and Safety 3. Nominal Declension 4. Verbs and Pronouns 5. The Nine Arts Ankoseiwas /anko‘sewas/ "our language" is the literary dialect of the archipelago of Akotvyah, the Spice Isla...

I'm terribly sorry to ask for this, dewrad, but I've been in the hospital for a bit and was wondering if I might get an extension of 24 hours on the challenge?

Next: hill fort Three different variants from across Ajjamah: Common Irthironian: https://i.imgur.com/jXvWybP.png theorra, theorros “hill-fort, ring-fort” (Proto-Ambaliran 1 * θeor-ir-az “protection-place”) Tehapuan Recollector: hamōsa “hill-fort, pā ” (from Proto-Recollector * kamo:ta ) Second Emp...

Clearly, I have an issue with mathematics (this is the major reason why the whole "designing a whole astrological system from scratch" thing is genuinely killing me): by "Friday 11th", I obviously mean "Friday 10th". Might I offer to help? Two heads are better than one...

By 6:35 on May 10th, we’ll see what I’ve got...

masako wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:50 am Italyinim burámum yumak tunda
Italians are generally very rude everywhere.

Ihgorti dakar, angortaṭ suḍṛuh.
2sERG-see-IMP.REAL-3sABS night / 1sERG-see-IMP.REAL-4sABS dawn
We'll have to agree to disagree, methinks.

Next: grass Classical Salvian: https://i.imgur.com/39INPZz.png Phatrū, phatrū- "grass stalk (from Proto-Empath * p h at-Vɻ "featherlike"--grass on Ajjamah has blades with multiple prominent veins)" Kankaari faddu, faddu- Visauran pátārùu https://i.imgur.com/hImxTSa.png Phatrah, ...

Max1461 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2019 4:39 pm next: to found

Classical Salvian:

Miner- "to start a clan"
Iddasal- "to found a city"

Next: graceful movement

Next: spine, backbone "Back-bone, spine" Recollector Dialects 1-4: 'uuka-nga'ii , 'ūka-ngayi , 'uuka-ngahii , hūka-ngayī Recollector Dialects 5-9: hūka-wa'alī , ngūha-wa'alī , ngūha-wakalī , ngūha-rakarī , 'uuka-rakarii Recollector Dialects 10-12: ngarii-onguuka , ka'ii-onguu'a , nga'ii-o...

So, is Leviathan a term for a flying whale? If not, Im confused. When I asked the first question I didnt even connect those two clauses, I just wanted to know about the flying whales. That’s exactly right! The word “leviathan” is used for flying whales, in the same way “behemoth” is used for singin...

mèþru wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 9:12 am horse-seal?
sea hippogriff?

Swamp Lions? Aggravated Tapirs? Naked Crocodiles?

You can't call it a kelpie if it doesn't take the form of an entrancing horse or a beautiful human! [/Outraged fan of Celtic mythologies] ...ah. Yeah, I thought I might run into that problem. I hoped the distinction of “aquatic carnivorous equine-esque pack animal” would cover all the basics, but t...

Harukkun (local Egallukkun “farthest west”)is the largest of the Three Tundras, and the one most written about by foreign peoples. This is in large part because the foreign peoples in question are the Irthironians, who established a colony there about a hundred years ago and are still trying to get...

So...yeah. When I was younger and less knowledgeable about language construction as a whole (would you believe I didn’t read the LCK until I was about nineteen?), I created a language based on the snippets of Entish (Old and New) available through Tolkien’s lore. I was particularly interested by the...

I don't think Old Entish, the real language of the Ents, was ever actually made by Tolkien. New Entish appears in LotR though, and in-story it is supposed to be the vocabulary of one of the Elvish languages "strung together in Entish fashion", so I guess it is a relex of Old Entish to som...

Alternatively, if you’re talking about a language that could be spoken by plants about plants, then basically the only one I know of is Entish, and that wasn’t really very developed. (I made my own version of Entish, back when I was younger and more foolish--or possibly less foolish--than I am now, ...