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Frislander wrote: ↑Mon Jan 21, 2019 9:31 am Also Osage guy why you do this as well French kinda has an excuse because it's got a cramped vowel system anyway but you started off with a simple five-vowel system!

Don't forget Ancient Greek

I can't believe no one has mentioned the elephant in the room yet. In Spanish (the language of Span, apparently), and most of the other languages from the same author, mixed gender groups are treated as masculine by default. Uh, hello? It's 2019 already. That kind of misogyny shouldn't be a part of...

... The glyph look Mayan to me The ones I made, or the ones I used for derivation? 'Cause those images came from this (PDF). The ones you made. But then that's because I think only Mayan carve a letter. Nahuatl mostly draw on parchment I think my Mesoamerican knowledge is lacking, so take this with...

I just hope Jokowi remains the president of Indonesia. I think he's the lesser of the two evils, but evil none the less for his support of the further destruction of Indonesia's environment and disregard for the weakest ethnic groups. So does I. Although controlling Indonesia is much harder than yo...

I'm trying to take a very plosive-cluster-heavy language and simplify the clusters somewhat. However, I'd rather not just reduce these by eliminating the first element. Are there any good precedents I can work off of other than C1C2 > C2 / _? If it helps, the plosive inventory is /p t k/ /b d g/, t...

What is the difference between toi and go?

Anyone making Indonesian must be reminded: passive don't work that way. Also, WTH with your personal suffixes. Why only singular, and for verb why only on OBJECT? However, the relationals it a neat idea

masako wrote: ↑Sun Jan 20, 2019 11:54 am So, I derived a syllabary for Classical Nahuatl based on glyphs that have been translated:



Think of it as a kind of Hiragana for Nahuatl.

It's still under development. More to follow.

The glyph look mayan to me

Basque is a pretty good conlang. However, something bothers me. Why you put your conlang in Eastern Europe? ? Basque is about as west as you can get, nowhere near Eastern Europe, you must be thinking Hungarian, which has its own problems, like who thinks double acutes are a good aesthetic, and what...

I have a conlang with a large number of Bantu influence and loanwords, especially Swahili, and I'd like to somehow get rid of the frequent Cw clusters therein, especially for alveolar Cs. What can I do, aside from eliding the /w/? Partial answer, you can shift labialized velar to labial ones. And y...

Also, English, WTF you just mark subject only for 3SG? At least if you don't want too many agreement suffixes, you can mark verb by person only or number only. Also, why can't you combine that -s with a -ed? Also, you have too many irregular verbs. It's just an imitation of the French subtractive m...

I wish politics in India wasn't strongly associated with death. Really? Can you explain it? The very word "politics" in India has an almost exclusively negative connotation. Political parties in India are all very corrupt, and it seems as if anyone who goes into politics risks being assas...

Vijay wrote: ↑Thu Jan 17, 2019 10:55 pm I wish politics in India wasn't strongly associated with death.

Really? Can you explain it?

Somebody tell that guy who did Navajo that determining the ordering of nouns in a clause by an animacy hierarchy is a stupid idea. That's realistic compared to the fact that Navajo have fusion of Aspect and Mode by ablaut. If it doesn't bad enough, each verb stem has its own ways, there is no regul...

The main alternative, I think, is to treat it as a particular sort of compounding. That's what I mean. Make your partial reduplication form as resultative form, and make a rule that it's common to compound a verb and the resultative form of itselve Synchronically, there aren't (so far) any verbal o...

For French : « Grange » It's also a rich rhyme, as the last three phonemes repeat. Actually, the French for "orange" is, well, "orange." French being my first mother tongue... I know that. But the OP specifically asked for rhymes with the word, not its meaning. Sorry. I misread ...

It's not fully mapped out yet, but yeah, the idea is that it'll happen with other verbs too---when used as resultative complements, it'll be their reduced (reduplication) form that's used. I think it'll be especially common when using stative verbs as resultative complements to yield a sort of caus...

For French : « Grange » It's also a rich rhyme, as the last three phonemes repeat. Actually, the French for "orange" is, well, "orange." In Indonesia, we call it "jeruk manis," and due to the nature of the language, rhythming words are very common. Example of rhythming...

I just hope Jokowi remains the president of Indonesia.