Zompist Bboard Again

Long time, no see. School has been difficult this year. I've started work on a language inspired by Avestan, Aramaic, Hebrew, and Old English :D. Wish me luck!

I have become interested in Old English. It's interesting, how it sounds almost like a mirror-world version of English. This has helped me get a bit back into conlanging. Sodémereš Čanša now has 800 words.

What do you think?

By the way, my new 'lang appears to be progressing well enough. Yes, there is definitely a vaguely Persian flavor to it; in-universe this language takes a lot of words from human tongues. Some of its nouns: 1. Ĕlya - God 2. Myu- Cat 3. Kŏmya- Fire 4. Tuvyi- Water 5. Mĕla- Langu 6. Ădomo- Human 7. De...

I've heard it's possible some dinosaurs had short arms to ensure they wouldn't accidentally injure others during communal feedings, as they already had very powerful jaws.

Some notes from awhile ago: Haemocyanin instead of hemoglobin (so blue blood) Poor eyesight in their main eyes (which can range in pupil size from ‘almost entirely pupil with a thin ring of color’ to ‘pupil barely exists’ depending on light levels)’, as these are largely vestigial. Tiny clam-like ‘p...

I have conaliens (my Sodemeresh) who are essentially humans that evolved from large, predatory clams.

Thanks.

Just to confirm, macrons signify long vowels, so "cāk" would be pronounce the same as cake, right? I'm a little hesitant to throw macrons around before checking.

I really like the Old Persian Case System so I have been trying to make a case system that emulates it. caseswithmorevariation.png I think it looks naturalistic, though perhaps the influence is a little too blatant. I can't decide what nouns fall under what subclass, though I want to say that human...

I mean this nicely, but why does xxx seem to end all their sentences with an ellipsis? It's not important but if anyone can tell, I'd like to know.

Also, question: If my conworld has card games not found in the real world, is including the names of those games in my dictionary proper?

In other unimportant news, AwfullyAmateur and their Adventures in Cases continues.

You should see the disaster that is my sanakelat (books). Sanakelat is your word for books? In Finnish it means "word spools", which I guess would be a poetic way to refer to books. I had no clue it was Finnish, let alone meant "word spools"! Chance is funny like that, I guess...

Ancient custom, then.

Btw, what started the tea & pickles thing?

Lol

I can't say I ever considered otherwise.

Overboard? Yes.
Fun? Yes.

Guys, I'm not sure how to say this, but I've decided to begin a new conlang...for the Minecraft city I want to build.