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Next update! THE REGIONS OF THE ICEMANNIC WORLD There are, broadly speaking, five major regions inhabited by the Icemannic peoples. The Three Tundras are the northernmost part of the Icemannic world, covering the second-, third-, and fourth-largest peninsulas on the continent of Borealia that actual...

This one's tough, thanks ... I need more words like this. Happy to be of service! next: iris (of the eye; or a similar concept) Classical Berserker: Tɕìn-wooŋ “eye-rainbow, iris” Changuyan Berserker: Zin2 Wong1 Tuysanese Berserker: Vōngṣin Proto-Icemannic: * iikənapuiva “eye.GEN-[off-centre], iris”...

I would love to see a Comparative Grammar for the simple reason that Quechuan is under-appreciated as a family, as opposed to the Cusco standard which is taken as representative of the whole family. Plus it’s likely to be more marketable...haven’t seen a comparative grammar of the Quechuan family b...

Okay I like the explanation ... this contraceptive is traded with other nations? did you get that idea from the island (Minoa?) in ancient Greece that did much the same thing? And I see men can be slave-owners too. The sentence ending with "to serve them all" confuses me though. Indeed th...

Thank you. :) Space nomadism chiefly came about as a matter of necessity when the Sol System was invaded by the Mazzahi Empire ~500 years ago. Colonists, scientists, miners, traders, and Inner System refugees were thrust together as they fled the onslaught. Though the Mazzahi Empire collapsed withi...

ónò èst pʌ́vʌ́nʌ̀sk? / RED -ˈtò ˈèts=t RED -pǽˈʔʌ̀ts=k/ EDGE -where want 1 : NPST . 2SG = 2SG EDGE -travel: INF = PFX 1 'Where do you want to travel?' Salvian: Mihauphu Migusan Sairan Misorin tu Mimbaurin... INC-start.erg-aor.int-1s INC-Foundland-LOC.SING birth.cause.land-LOC.SING INC-sun.erg.land-...

Most interesting indeed! Tell me, how is space nomadism made possible in your world? What kind of effect has it had on the languages’ development? How far does civilization extend? What’s the Inner Solar System like?

Not as much as I thought there was. http://www.frathwiki.com/Proto-Moonshine_culture#Postwar_reforms_in_Moonshine_territory http://www.frathwiki.com/Moonshine_Ethnographical_Questionnaire http://www.frathwiki.com/Repilian_languages#Gender covers three different hyper-feministic societies (the first...

People still want to have babies together, so they'd try to ensure genetic compatibility. People want particular features, not (say) a 24th chromosome pair. Though (say) Novorossiyans don't have much reason to stay genetically compatible with Okurinese. If they do happen to meet and marry, one or b...

Might I suggest using <ng> for /ŋ/, <nng> for /ng/, and <ngg> for /ŋg/? That's lovely - I've never thought of that! Another solution that I quite like is having <ng> for /ŋ/, <n'g> for /nɡ/, and <ngg> for /ŋɡ/. The advantange of this solution is that you can scale it up to other digraphs, so things...

You’re very welcome!

Hey everyone, forum newbie here with my first post. So, I’m hoping for some advice re romanization. I’ve recently decided to basically redo my main conlang from my conworld (the first version was made ages ago and it was my first conlang; it really was a terrible Latin clone with bits and pieces fr...

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 6:05 pmLooks cool!

Thanks!
Anything you might like to know more about? I’m eager to write, but I’d prefer to write things that people want to read...

The in-universe answer is that Okura and New Bharat were not terraformed; they already had ecospheres and breathable air. Whether this is realistic or not, I think we just don't know. We don't know of any alien ecosphere. It's tempting to say "everything will be alien and poisonous", but ...

Icemannic Dialect 17:
Saaru-tanngut vaingikulutë...
Thousand-land-LOC-PL travel-near.future-VOL-1mACT
I should like to travel the world sometime soon...

Perhaps New Bharat was more human-friendly in the first place? And I'm not sure about your "settled a mere century ago" timeline - how are you counting? Ah, I stand corrected. According to the “Planets of the Incatena” page, New Bharat was colonized in the 48C, which would put it 200 year...

Of course the really curious bit about the Incatena is that Mars’ surface is still barely inhabitable after 3,000-odd years, but New Bharat, settled a mere century ago, has a breathable if slightly corrosive atmosphere that humans can live on. And that’s not even starting on Okura or Armonia...shoul...

A little late, but... The Attikih (Long Count) The world of Ajjamah is not Earth, by any means. Its day is 26 Earth hours long. It orbits one star, known locally as Suran , which is locked in a binary orbit with another star, Kasar . Its year is 210 local days (about 227 Terran days), with a leap ye...

Thank you! I'm a fan. Is the resemblance of the proto-language to Inuit on purpose? The Dialect 17 sample looks like it could be Uralic ... is this meant to evoke the sounds of the Arctic in general? I like the idea of a cold climate culture whose languages sound in one place like Inuktitut, in ano...

Another con-culture, this time in the far north of the world. This is for you, Frislander; you ask for more about the Icemannic peoples, and I provide! Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Regions of the Icemannic World 3. Proto-Icemannic: Phonology and Basic Morphology 4. Skins and Sails: Naval Tec...