Zompist Bboard Again

Or scratch the plural and replace it with word meaning group, bundle, etc

vegfarandi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 15, 2019 1:31 pm Are there languages that mark the subject of causatives with an oblique case, while retaining the original nominative/ergative marking for the original subject? I'm toying with this in Imutan, but wondering if this is naturalistic.

It's called benefactive applicative

Is it realistic to turn inchoative into copula?

Well, one world-builder to another... This isn’t a bad start. But there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. For example, what makes “spirit” a sentient particle separate from mana or matter? Could you have living beings that didn’t have spirits? If a creature can gain energy through ma...

I’m trying to make a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in my alternate earth’s Indonesia. Maybe spoken in NTT or Sulawesi? Any tips from anyone who knows a lot about these languages. I’m looking into stuff like Ngadha (been listening to a lot of ja’i music and various genres of pop daerah and some ...

I’m trying to make a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in my alternate earth’s Indonesia. Maybe spoken in NTT or Sulawesi? Any tips from anyone who knows a lot about these languages. I’m looking into stuff like Ngadha (been listening to a lot of ja’i music and various genres of pop daerah and some ...

In my world, there is fire magic, using fire magic, one can bypass the plate armor (Metal is heat conductor). How much heat is required to damage the victim even if the victim wears cloth under it? My idea that is by using fire magic, people starts to abandon plate armor, except that Rkou tribe that...

Tropylium wrote: ↑Mon Feb 04, 2019 6:07 am I near-shitposted about a "prosodic" reconstruction on Tumblr about a year back, dunno if any of you are thinking about this though.

Why do it affect P instead of B?

It really isn't beneficial--that was kind of the experiment. I was reading about the intelligence of octopodes, generally solitary creatures who in effect self-destruct after their optic glands go haywire and deactivate their digestive glands, and was wondering whether or not it would be reasonable...

The one thing that strikes me as odd is having basic roots for all numbers up to 16. Numbers usually have etymologies— even the IE ones do, though we don't remember them. Base 20 systems are usually named based on fives and tens. Just to correct a couple statements about large numbers— some hunter-...

Do you know any origin on PIE case system? Why it is still fusional even on the proto language?

I. Introduction Kasela is a world, similiar to zompist's world. This planet is similiar to ours, or at least during Carboniferous. However, one big difference between this and real world is the presence of magic system. a. Magic system This world is based on three things. Material, mana, and energy...

(Be note that this page is important because the page is not in forum order, It's possible that the article is posted before another article that is numerically more advanced.)

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
   1. Magic system

WALS offers seven verb-first languages with double-object constructions. And that's not including secondary-object constructions and languages that WALS calls 'mixed' (which include multiple constructions). How do you search WALS for two features at once? With great frustration and lack of any inst...

Why it's beneficial to kill both parents. Assuming your species is intelligent, it makes no sense to kill the parents because intelligence-passing is more important than giving food to the offspring. It would be unrealistic for all of them to do it. Why do your planet has polar ice caps at all? It ...

Thanks, Ive always wanted something like that .... but it's for Linux. Does there exist anything comparable for Windows? It can be used with Windows and with a Mac. They provide instructions on how to get it to work: The GUI (Graphical User Interface) and MoSt (Model Starter) are written using the ...

I don't make many languages, and it's mostly offline, but there is some cliche it tends to be polysynthetic large consonant inventory or very small consonant inventory, with a small-average number of vowels. Affricates pattern as stops, stops are paired with nasals. (a native language effect, since ...

OK, so maybe not basic roots for anything above 3. I've got these so far: šop (4) is clipped from šoppu which means hand, foot, or paw. tleu (5) is the masculine for tleï , which means "left" (as in the direction, not "remaining" like lora ) floʼ (15) is clipped from floʼï which...

Base-16 seems rather unrealistic for humans. Does any language use that system? Well, this is not human language. there's a natural language using a system that is close enough to a base-16 system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngiti_language No, it is base-4. In human language, language with sma...

k1234567890y wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 12:54 am maybe look at the discussion here: https://cbb.aveneca.com/viewtopic.php?t=5655

Thanks.