Zompist Bboard Again

While I certainly do enjoy that transliteration, the number of dots is almost... overwhelming. Which isn't a bad thing.

Hrnnnnggggg that's the stuff right there. All of it, which is going to make it difficult to parse out which one's going to be the best to use. I'm a huge fan of the lastmost example, especially ⟨r⟩ for [ɣ], plus the diactrics and vowel setup. I'll see which ones fit better when I have more of the gr...

Oh wow, there is nothing more than I can say about how much I love that. I also love the use of the r/s for creaky & pitch. If I move into CV territory with this language like I was hoping, this'd make good work! (And as well, I could build a historical spelling that uses final spellings.) The i...

Background I've been working on Goblin, a funky North Germanic language. Despite this language being reserved for a story most certainly on Earth, I wanted to ground it in a North Germanic look & feel, and why bother rebuilding the wheel? Today I reworked the phonology with Ness's input, and th...

Let's start this thread again, after 89 pages and 1 post on the old board. To kick off, I read this article by Kloekhorst the other day, on the origin of nominal accent-ablaut paradigms and ultimately the case-endings. He's got some interesting ideas, but I'm not sure how plausible some of his assu...

The Adjective I made a brief mention that adjectives are similar to the nominal system. Lol, nope. This is gonna be a complicated ride, and perhaps the most complicated system in the language thus far because I chose to describe it wrong! See, we're working with a split system. Unlike Indo-European...

It's been over a month since I last worked on ʔSudánjhuh, and I'm not sure where to go from here with it. I should provide information on adjectives & noun phrases, perhaps. But that'll wait. Just bumping this thread up until I can get my focus back.

Phonology I wanted to jump into this before I get back into verbs and discuss the basics of syntax. Expectations are important, and there are some phonology notes in the language I want to cover. But first off, the phonology. Obstruent (voiceless): [p t c k kʷ ʔ] p t c k kw ʔ Obstruent (voiced): [b...

Thank you! That was part of this driving motion to make PIE into a usable language, which required some kind of horizontal or lateral derivation to make it work. And by the time I finished, it should be intuitive, flexible and predictable, though to a realistic scale. Dáj, on the other hand, will be...

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Sat Jul 21, 2018 10:32 am A nice and interesting project, I have something similar going, Hesperic.

Oooh, interesting. I'll have to delve into that ! I'm delving laterally through this whole process, so Dáj will simplify ʔSudánjhuh by a great degree, instead of being a hypothetical daughter.

Alright. So the board ate my post. Let's try this again. Looking over the nouns, I wanted to start with a few design notes. I pared down the cases from eight to five. This was an intentional design, since the IE languages have a troubling pattern of analogizing the case structure across multiple pat...

Cuz I'm lazy. So you know what's more fun than making a PIE daughter language? Making a lateral derivative and then trying to derive languages from that! So I present the ʔSudánjhuh ta , or, "The Good Language." This language will serve as a copy to do a secondary derivation: a grand simpl...