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Which series? (Also, you might want to read up about ‘naming languages’ if you haven’t already. Zompist’s Language Construction Kit has a nice section on them.) Narnia. My plan is to evolve the Narnian language from a cockney dialect of English, since that's what the inhabitants of Narnia first spo...

Hi Verduria, I’ve just started work on a project involving reconstructing the various languages of a fantasy world from a fantasy series I like based on the place and character names given in the book. Has anyone here attempted a similar project? If so, does anyone have any thoughts or advice on thi...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 11:32 am (Oh, and never say never… I had several languages I thought were more or less ‘quitted’, until it turned out I liked them enough to keep on going anyway.)

True. The file's still around

You could make ten "Peneya", i.e. five with a dual inflection.

Those were the numbers I was planning on adding, but, if you add them to your collection, just remember that your taking them from a quited language.

give it a chance... I remember a time when I couldn't stand my conlang's rendering nor its philosophy of the world, and I dropped it... it was more than thirty years ago... since then it has its own life, it builds itself according to its original pattern, and I follow it as a parallel and exotic r...

By the way, SFOTD is cancelled forever due to me not liking my language very much and restarting it. I will be back with more of my restarted language soon.

SFOTD #6: Existence As - To temporarily been in a state or locative (transitive) Ēyas - Used is basic existentials (intransitive) Em - To make (transitive) Ari - To destroy (transitive) Gwōs - 1 A origin 2 To originate (intransitive) 3 To be born (intransitive) Ner - To become (transitive) Consideri...

SFOTD #5: Basic Body Parts The basic body parts are as follows: Ligrēm - Arm or hand | Also means: Forefoot, limb of a bow, a constellation Re - The back Bela - Body | Also means: Person Ḱwat́os - Breast or chest Dōs - Finger, toe, or thumb | Also means: One Bitar - Fist | Also means: To fight with ...

GFOTD (grammatical feature of the day) is now cancelled. Too impractical. SFOTD (Semantic Field of the Day) is still going, though.

SFOTD #4: Head-Related Body Parts Interestingly, the Ancient Tongue has no distinction between beard and mustache, or jaw and chin. However, they do have a separate for the side of the face, between the eye and the ear. The roots are as follows: Dir - Cheek Mēt - Eye Esmi - Face Yam - Forehead Apir ...

GFOTD #1: What do the verb inflections do in my conlang? Verbs are inflected for either the perfective aspect, the imperfective aspect, and the irrealis mood. The situations in which these three inflections are used follows: The Perfective The perfective aspect is marked with a null morpheme and is ...

Announcing: GFOTD (Grammatical Feature of the Day). Every day, for the next few weeks (minus weekends) I will post one grammatical feature from language that I have worked on. The grammatical feature must be at least 100 words long and have been entirely written on that day. Until anon, conlangernoob

Question: What are some non-english ways to handle subordinate clauses?

Thanks,

conlangernoob

SFOTD #3: Number System Basic Roots The Ancient Tongue uses base six with bijectivity. The basic roots for numbers are as follows: Am - One (Also means “finger) Ēyad - Two (Notice the similarity between this word and the dual suffix “-eya”) Ēyadam - Three (A compound of “one” and “two”) Begwi - Four...

SFOTD #2: Kinship Terms The Ancient Tongue uses the Hawaiian kinship system. All relatives of the same gender in a generation use one kinship term, while all relatives of the opposite gender in a generation use another. The words for kin are as follows: Mēyas- Same gender relative of Ego’s generatio...

keenir wrote: ↑Fri Apr 07, 2023 8:54 am

conlangernoob wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 3:27 pm My main concern is whether or not it is naturalistic for the word for White to metaphorically extend to goodness and purity but for black to not have the opposite connotation. Any thoughts?

Maybe have both white and black cover goodness and purity?

I like that.

Semantic Field of the Day (henceforth, SFOTD) #1: Basic Color Terms There are six basic color terms. All color terms are nouns, and to become adjectives they must be derived. Skēr - Black (proto-type), dark grey | Can also mean: Darkness, smoke Yaswe - White (proto-type), light gray, off-white | Can...

Introducing … Edas: Semantic Field of the Day. Here’s how it works: Every day (minus weekends), I will post at least six interrelated words (e.g. kinship terms, locative prepositions, body part names, measurement systems) that I have added to the lexicon. That way, I can a) expand my lexicon at a re...

The Ancient Tongue has been given a new working title: Edas. Note: This isn't the final name. Just a more original placeholder.