Zompist Bboard Again

Okokoni tlo si pkilji-pkilji ! watermelon TOP be tasty-INTENS "Watermelon's very tasty!" Mgo tlo si pkenji oley yiwo . 3p TOP be good summer 3p-LOC "It's good in the summer." Poyoy ep okokoni yepketji ma . fruit.salad GEN=watermelon 1p.OBJ-3p.SUBJ-please-NEG however "I don'...

Hi folks! Long-time conlanger and lurker around these parts! I've been a bit blocked with my most recent languages, so I thought I maybe should present what I have for one of them, which I've tentatively been calling Sàna. This is a bit more of a scratchpad than a fully fleshed-out language, so apol...

Ah, alas, the classic fallacy of "copy-pasting from your drafts without carefully proofreading." It should read: Mädäcärka ja puo hihan ogysi. committee-GEN DIST two report read-TRAN “The committee (members) read two reports each.” The missing members is because this language allows speake...

I'm a long-time lurker and very occasionally poster around these parts, but I've been struggling for quite a few years with finding sufficient inspiration. But over the past day or so I've been playing around with an old nominal system and have created a feature which I enjoy quite a bit. There's a ...

I don't have much to offer, except this looks way cool! I love the Anatolian aesthetic, and the stuff you've been doing with arity and valency is very nice!

Realized I got hit up by Janko so I figured I'd add the numerals, with a little historical discussion. The Old Guneyic numerals were: 1. saka 2. kyl 3. vaz 4. øh 5. gjø 6. berank 7. onø 8. gaza 9. ruha 10. renta 20. lyrenta 21. lyrentavisaka (all one word, but transparently derived from lyrenta vi s...

Sound changes from Old Guneyic, in chronological order: Low-mid shift a --> o/_C[-alveolar] ø --> a Palatalization k g --> tʃ dʒ/_V[-back][-rounded] kj gj --> tʃ dʒ pj bj mj--> t d n tj dj sj zj --> tʃ dʒ ʃ ʒ Cluster Simplification #1 C[+stop] --> 0/_C[+nasal] Y-unrounding y --> i Mid-vowel raising ...

Looking good so far! I don’t suppose there’s much in the way of prefixes or suffixes to make syntax a little easier, though? Some noun classifiers, perhaps? Thank you! I'm not totally sure, but what I've been thinking is that it'll be mostly reliant on syntax, plus a fair few adpositions, including...

Hi folks--long-time lurker and occasional poster, here and on the CBB. Lost access to my old account a while back so I made a new one. Figured I'd post a little bit about my most recent project, Gahalese, which I've been doddering on for a minute. Nouns in Gahalese are marked for case and number. Th...