Zompist Bboard Again

I noticed there seems to be a form of ablaut you didn't discuss, like saha -> sehe for stand/be stood and salva/selve for know/be known. How does this system work?

basically, a planet that's "tidally locked" but not fully...? like I'm talking a planet that takes hundreds of thousands to millions of years to complete one daylight cycle. to avoid having to make life on a habitable band, we could just say we threw in a lot of albedo and took away a lot...

I have now translated a bit of conmythology into Metin tsiibha yúunh, tsii-bha yúunh ABS-before.me QUESTION Who are you? ą’í tsiTiatxa’ tsueeTxiul ą’í tsi-Tia-txa’ tsuee-Txiul say.3>4 ABS-original-man DAT-voice.DEF said the man to the voice ąąt oatétá ya’a lith’íí tieú ąąt oa-tétá ya’a l-ith’íí tieú...

Time is special in the Metin measurement system. Two units coexist, the human-based ~24 hour k’í cycle and the sxuFuu-based klóh . The klóh is approximately 405 k’í long, and is better thought of as a year from the Metin perspective. During the months of the sun being up ( róín ), it gets hot. The m...

I'm trying to be more conscious about the adasar tending to have more coronals—their average vowel count is 7 as opposed to humans' 5, and interdentals have more sticking power for them than us; contrasting multiple coronal POAs seems appropriate. Is there an anatomical difference between Adasar an...

Numbers and Measurements [hr] Ordinal Multiplicative Uncial Ordinal 0: mai Nothing: maitya maitya N/A 1: uu Whole: wáánz 1/12 or one ounce (in the Latin sense): húúyą First: yáh 2: maar Double: bhe' 2/12 (1/6): bhíízį Second: meł 3: t'aa Triple: turáá 3/12 (1/4): tíírį Third: t’ain 4: zxįįng Quadru...

EDIT: Also, does this mean that Metin/taKletílmą is a conlang in-world as well as externally? Yes. In-world, Metin is a fairly shallow international a-posteriori auxlang, something in the space between Interlingua and Hochdeutsch. It enjoys widespread usage due to the fact that it has been worked i...

I finally came up with an endonymic name for the Metin language, taKletílmą , having worked out the grammar on how languages are referred to and more details of the in-world history. So, oaMetin are the Metin people, literally just "the people" (like so many other terms, like Diné or Anish...

Personally, I would trust the output more if you told the LLM to write a script that applies the sound changes. This would not only improve regularity, it would also let you examine the changes yourself. It might be easier to just use a SCA tool. Agreed. (I would suggest my own !) You guys, just fo...

The only benefit I can see in putting your gloss in code tags is that it allows you to line up your gloss to the morphemes, like this: i ho u de zi luna =i ndze ngwa zywe va. COP goodᴱ SIT 3S RETᴱ here.1ᴱ=COP NEG.RETᴱ breakᴬ GEN.3P allᴱ If you're not doing that, all it does is disrupt the flow. I w...

In Metin, expressed nominally or verbally, it would be taxaasx hóoho ta-xaasx hóoho ABS.FORM-storm whirl Hurricane/Tornado Or ghumaɮi xaasx ut-hóoho ghu-maɮ-i xaasx ut-hóoho in.image.of-outside-be.3 storm LOC.ABSTRACT whirl There is a hurricane/tornado happening. sxii yúunh ghumaɮi xaasx ut-hóoho ta...

Preverb Conjugation Intransitive endings The suffix of a preverb indicates the person of its subject and object, and its mood. Here I go over the "intransitive" set (intransitive here is a bit of a misnomer, the intransitive set are also used for transitive verbs with nontopicalized objec...

On Jéos [/b] jéos is an adjective in Metin expressing both “forgotten” and “precious”. It is a numinous word to them, signifying a potent combination of nostalgia, longing, regret, and fear. It can be used both to describe the pictures in a family album lost to a fire and to describe an ancient and...

Noun class prefixes [/b] Noun class prefixes indicate the animacy and shape of the noun they are attached to. They inflect for case, and a handful also mark number. I went over only a handful of them earlier, so here is a more complete set. They historically derive from “light nouns”, which took ca...

Postpositives Postpositives are a series of words, typically appearing as the second word/phrase in a sentence or relative clause, that bear much of the pragmatic or emotive weight of a statement, they indicate not what you are saying but moreso why you are saying it. The most basic postpositives a...

I have nothing specific I can say, other than wow, this is fascinating and impressive! I feel like I’ve simultaneously read a paper about an interesting obscure natlang and watched a Jodorowsky space opera. Really interesting work and I look forward to reading / seeing more. A small complaint: in y...

Directions (continued) Aeronautic directions There is something anomalous about ha : “above me”, and fua : “below me”. These directions, unlike the other four facial directions, aren’t entirely relative to the orientation of the speaker. Instead, they are pinned down by gravity. In ordinary human l...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Feb 15, 2025 2:48 pm Which natlangs have root lexemes for all of these?

Central Alaskan Yup'ik has about the same number of core demonstratives (29), though they are arranged along different axes.

https://escholarship.org/content/qt0241 ... f?t=o8eija

The egocentric directions inflect for person to indicate whose coordinate system they are referencing -a : 1st person -e : 2nd person -ii 3rd person -imálą : 4th person -u mu ABLATIVE-noun : relative to a specific noun e.g.: k'a : to my/our right k'e : to your right k'ii : TOPIC's (his or her or the...

Egocentric directions Metin's demonstrative system is founded upon the egocentric directions, upon which the cardinal and aeronautic directions are based. They can be conceived of as a cube centered around a human being standing upright (HEe e, I give the first person forms, ending in -a , meaning ...