Zompist Bboard Again

Just discovered Etymograph by Dmitry Jemerov, "a DSL for expressing morphological and phonological rules, along with a linguistic database allowing to apply the rules to real language material". Its goal is to be useful for historical linguistics research by concentrating all of a language...

The following are not standalone SCA: The PolyGlot Spoken Language Construction Kit has a ' Language evolution tool ': This tool allows you to create linguistic drift . It's a regex replacement of words already in the lexicon, but it counts, sort of? In the same language-documentation software area,...

The four-syllable limit reminds me of Elko, a conlang by Ziecken Azuris rooted in numerology and theonymy (currently being rebooted ). But your conlang has those irregularities that keep poking up from under the cover of a rationally-engineered project. Language wants to be free! Very charming, and ...

MISoL : by linguist Johann-Mattis List, this online tool proposes class-based sound changes, word tiers (for tone, stress, etc) and backward reconstructions. All of those features do not work smoothly with one another though, as explained in that blog post . I think I will comment there to direct t...

Leksical : word generation, sound changer, also a "simulate" option to apply random-but-naturalistic sound changes. Free, but I saw a Plans / Princing section in the HTML source, "coming soon". I swear when I first saw it one month ago, it mentioned using LLM APIs to do the chan...

I seem to recall "risqué" glosses being supplied in Latin in otherwise vernacular translations, and the definitions of some words being vague in dictionaries like the Bailly, like φοινικίζω "to have the obscene mores of the Phoenicians" (it means "to have oral sex"), bu...

The Tocharian reflex of IE * yebh -, yäp -, means "to enter", while cognates in all other daughters mean "to fuck" (Greek οἴφω, Sanskrit yábhati , Russian ебать). Is it an archaism, or an hyperbole on the model of French foutre (which is rarely used in its original sense anymore ...

While looking for HaSC, I stumbled upon yet another Haskell SCA, sound-change by Owen Bechtel.

Looking through my 'Sound change appliers' local folder, I see Lee Hartman's Phono (apparently from the 80s). Couldn't find online again: HaSC, a Haskell featural SCA by Christopher Bates (I wrote him here some years ago, no response) schcompile, written in Perl by Henrik Theiling Versatile Sound Ch...

It has been a long time since I've seen a non-linear example of 3SDL! Any chance you've got one under your arm?

Read it in Russian, I loved the "spy fiction" part in Umbar. The latter half of the novel somewhat less. And there were to many straightforward geo-historical parallels with our world for my taste.

That said, I recommend it too.

My translation from Zju's Lùlàjnòj: He doesn't move while the cries of Whitetail are fading: Blackwing feels her final breath departing her body. The feeling that he's hidden very well comforts him, relaxes the tightening in his chest. Breathing deeply, Blackwing readies his feet. With his feathers,...

There are no prepositional verbs though! Except coiloquially in those places where Germanic languages used to be spoken. Yes. What I wanted to convey was that we do not say la lumière est dessus(/dedans/dehors/avec/etc) ; even in my 40%-Germanic-speaking area, we never use a calque of the vernacula...

French can also "mettre" (put) the light. But yeah, no prepositions/locative adverbs.

Japonic, if not Future Japanese itself. What was the model, the prompt? Did you ask only for a text, or are there additional explanations? Did you gloss it yourself?

David and Jessie Peterson created conlangs for the movies: Chakobsa (and its orthography) the language of the Fremen, and the secret handsigns used by Paul and Jessica (and maybe also the sign language used by a Harkonnen pilot?). Sardaukar is only a phonology; and there are no Galach or "Harko...

This sounds like Wilbur , at least what I remember of it. Was still developped recently (2023). Unfortunately, it's Windows-only (haven't tested with Wine yet) and closed-source (but free). (mal)Chances are, you've already tested it I discovered it at Worldbuilding Pasta , which may contain the exac...

That's what we meant! To see if we could "formalise" those statements. A good test of the flexibility of a given SCA (maybe it'll give bradrn ideas for further Brassica tweaks).

Jonlang, would you care to share those plain language sound changes here? We're no AI, but some of us could translate that into formatted input for our favourite SCAs. I'd like the challenge, using Lexurgy.

To get back on topic: What (hypothetical) tools would you like to have or find useful ? Detailed tracking of each word from the proto-lexicon to the daughters, allowing to apply one-off sound changes, analogy, and see the lexical relationships between words at each stage of the language. That is to...