Zompist Bboard Again

forgot to add this here in case someone is curious


www.niskullit.conlang.org

I like the writing system. Doesn't look quite like anything I've seen. thank you! The main inspirations were Ogham, Mongolian and Georgian! In the in-world history of Pine, it's hypothesized that they developed the script after coming in contact with Irish monks in the later part of the first mille...

That’s certainly an interesting variation on hierarchical alignment. Any thoughts as to how it could have evolved? Thank you! Yes, there is a somewhat sensible explanation/in-world theory. There is some correspondence between the form of these suffixes and deixis markers. For example -i (first degr...

I figured it's a bit heavy to dump 1217 pages of grammar for some people, and I've seen a lot of these PPT-like presentations, so I thought I'd start a little series called Pine Digest, where I go explore some of the grammar of Pine in a more easily digestible format. This is the first one on the po...

And now the first article of the universal declaration of human rights in Pine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvW6UKHePoE Some notes on the vocabulary you might find interesting: bulkkuġġami | free, derived from the root bulk- 'tether', with the abessive suffix -uġġami 'without' naġv - | 'to be bo...

I also recorded a short cautionary tale (a tṡukvi) in Pine about angelica and giant hogweed, two similar plants, one of which can cause severe burns.


https://youtu.be/LrfoLtpzByU?si=s9IprxNuqc2oC0bv

Here is a spoken sample of pine! Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v1eo3P4ldnGjtxR-3nfos9J4Lv3C7B3a/view?usp=drivesdk and https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nc8bgJmSDN6MXp01zp7715AChkIERqyc/view?usp=drivesdk Text: https://i.postimg.cc/HVp8FtPw/IMG-2806.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/QVgW6zS9/IMG-2807....

I did read through the part on the hierarchy, but only very quickly. Most of my knowledge of algonquian languages is based on the Nishnaabemwin grammar, which does, if I remember correctly, describe the hierarchy according to the myth highlighted in the paper. The argument in the paper seems to be t...

thank you! And yes, that is a little drawback of posting such a large amount of info, it's not really realistic to expect any feedback on the contents of the book (yet). The 2>1 hierarchy is actually a total coincidence. I developed the idea for Pine based on an LSD trip, only to have it validated b...

Thank you, but I would hope the actual content is more impressive. Not a work lunch read, so I don't expect anyone to have much to say about it yet, but I guarantee that it's where the good stuff is.

Thank you very much :) What you mention about the digestability of the grammar is something I've thought about quite a bit, but it is an unavoidable consequence of my goal - to describe the language to the fullest extent of my abilities. I'm far from done, this is only the first draft. Many things a...

Hey, I thought I'd share the first and as-of-yet incomplete draft of my second conlang project, Pine. As far as I know it's the largest grammar of a non-natural language. It is called Pine, and it is a sort of spiritual successor to Siwa, my previous project. I've been working on it for a bit over a...