Obenzayet

[zompist]

I noticed that in the Proto-Eastern grammar the word for land; xūn-s, listed in the masculine verb table, is realised as ʔün-z in the Obenzayat column, but is ḵün-z in the equivalent table on the Naviu page. Does that represent an early draft of Obenzayat, or an alternative such as Proto-Naviu or another language?

ʔün-z is from an earlier version-- ḵün-z is correct.

Or, if you prefer, I was following a mistaken hunch of Osör Ružeon’s, later corrected by Sarileya.

[Mornche Geddick]

Poor old Ružeon. I feel sorry for him sometimes.

[Kuchigakatai]

1. I used pˠ etc. in the phonology section. The tilde is used for velarization, but it should overlay the character: p̴. This tends to look terrible, however.

Ah, right, I always forget about that diacritic, even though I've seen it on rare occasion on things about Arabic... Yeah, it tends to be dispreferred because most fonts don't handle it correctly.

[BGMan]

I used pˠ etc. in the phonology section. The tilde is used for velarization, but it should overlay the character: p̴. This tends to look terrible, however.

It's nice in a way to see a language that's a bit inconvenient to write in Latin letters.

The Russians would have an advantage in being able to use ъ (and the associated vowels like ы and э), and it would be interesting to see how they would Cyrillize Obenzayet. An Irish-based orthography might be interesting as well. And I guess Swedes would hear them as retroflex as with rd and so forth.