What have you accomplished today?

[Ahzoh]

Vrkhazhian now possesses obviation distinction
kān nāwaldāttiyan
"may they-OBV provoke-OBV them-PROX"

likkān nāwaldāttin
"may they-PROX provoke-PROX them-OBV"

I derive this distinction in the pronouns from the fusion of the determiner liʔ- "that", the verb and possessive suffixes from -hha

EDIT:
I decided that subject pronouns combined with the main verb in the future tense will signify a commissive meaning (issuing promises or threats)

Wē yasni, anu abzē nēpali essîli kā parŋāttin naṣbabna
O son of mine, I shall slay the night terrors that would plague you"

[ProfSaber]

I haven't done anything today, but yesterday I added twenty words to my conlang (which only had 150), most with etymologies, and added two simple sentences. It's the first work on this language I've done since 2019!

For the record:

*Kwe phe lwà se.
see 1p NOM river
I see the river.

*Kan le thigràn lwà pithte.
look PFV queen NOM tablet
The queen read the tablet.

(For the record, the speakers were bronze-age, matriarchal non-humans.)

[Man in Space]

I did a lot of writing about how they keep time and mark calendars on Ítöð.

[Ahzoh]

Vrkhazhian no longer has grammaticalized tenses, only mood. Kinda like having a perfective (analogous to past) versus imperfective (nonpast) distinction, only realis (nonfuture) versus irrealis (future)

Thus the essential (default) paradigm is basically:

Realis indicates what is, by default indicative but sometimes counterfactual:
Indicative: If woman leave-REAL earlier, she arrive-IRR on time "If the woman leaves earlier, then she may arrive on time"
Counterfactual: if woman leave-REAL earlier, she arrive-REAL on time "If the woman left earlier, then she would have arrived on time"

Irrealis: indicates

• consequence ("If X then Y will happen")
• desire ("that [...] will want to do X")
• intention ("[...] intends to do X")
• promises ("[...] promises to do X"; "[...] shall do X")
• threats ("if you mess with [...], then [...] shall do X")
• questioning ("will [...] speak on the matter?")

When used in conjunction with the subject pronouns (because it's ordinarily null-subject) then the irrealis expresses a strong command or encouragement, like a jussive or hortative. Alternatively, the imperative form of the verb may be used, a form that is commonly used in names such as Nardi-yasni-rabdammi ("Nardi protect my son")

In summary:
paruḫmu "you spoke, you speak, you would've spoken"
napraḫmu "you will speak, you shall speak, you intend to speak, you want to speak, you would speak"
mū napraḫmu "you will surely speak, speak!"
parḫammu "speak!"

Tense markers can be used, but they are not obligatory, neither is aspect, which is denoted only by adverbs or auxiliary verbs or Aktionsart.

[Ares Land]

Vrkhazhian no longer has grammaticalized tenses, only mood. Kinda like having a perfective (analogous to past) versus imperfective (nonpast) distinction, only realis (nonfuture) versus irrealis (future)

Nice! (I'm very fond of languages that conflate mood and tenses.)

[Ahzoh]

Relatedly I was working on how to deal with sentences where infinitives would be used:

Uzrali tēdumti eñe melēyu śipêkīyan
Uzur-OBL-DEF APPL-come\REAL-3ms for taking\CNS axe\CNS-PL-3mp.OBV
"He came from Uzur to accept their surrender"

There is the idiom “to take [someone’s] axes/weapons” which pretty transparently means “to accept [someone’s] surrender”.

[So Haleza Grise]

Relatedly I was working on how to deal with sentences where infinitives would be used:

Uzrali tēdumti eñe melēyu śipêkīyan
Uzur-OBL-DEF APPL-come\REAL-3ms for taking\CNS axe\CNS-PL-3mp.OBV
"He came from Uzur to accept their surrender"

There is the idiom “to take [someone’s] axes/weapons” which pretty transparently means “to accept [someone’s] surrender”.

Nice. A lot of Australian languages have specialised "in order to" suffixes (purposive etc.), which is a feature I quite like. Often they correspond with a nominal case with the same meaning (sometimes glossed as "dative")

[Rounin Ryuuji]

A little writing, which involved worldbuilding.

[Vardelm]

I have tentative affixes for all of my Yokai noun classes, both singular & plural.

School has sucked up most of my free time & mental bandwidth for a while, so I've just been chipping away at this for the past month & a half. I still need to think about variations for words starting/ending in a consonant vs vowel, etc., but I think I generally like what I have so far. Next up is getting a bunch of sample words, and then working on another 3 (at least) forms for each class. But for now, I'm emotionally celebrating.

[Pedant]

600 words of Irthironian, done and dusted, and over 2,100 words in total! At the moment that puts me over a third of the way through my yearly goal!

[Emily]

started working on a new conworld yesterday and sketched out the basic parameters for a set of proto-languages, and spent the whole day working out the basics for the first one (this one, currently named "proto-language 1", is PIE-like — fusional with strong hints at previous agglutination, gender system that's still coalescing, several cases — but most of the others will be very different; i'm trying to break out of my pseudo-europe comfort zone). figured out the rudiments of syntax and hammered out the nominal morphology, aa well as the numerals, and i just got done working through the verb endings. now to work on the basic vocabulary, or alternatively to go to bed

[Ahzoh]

Vrkhazhian's conscript is now fully RTL and I made a nice table of it's letters:
https://conworkshop.com/view_article.ph ... 2f713a3a71

[Ahzoh]

Vrkhazhian has fully functioning ligatures now

[Vardelm]

Vrkhazhian has fully functioning ligatures now

Those look great!

[Man in Space]

Technically over the weekend, but CT now has (much of) an unwieldy cuneiform writing system.

[Ahzoh]

Verkhazhian now has sentence enders (denoted by the four dots) as well as a fancy set of parenthesis that denotes the beginning of a paragraph.


I kinda ripped it from this:
https://i.imgur.com/A783lcr.jpg
I dunno whose script it is, but it has nice glyphs.

[Emily]

started working on a new conworld yesterday and sketched out the basic parameters for a set of proto-languages, and spent the whole day working out the basics for the first one (this one, currently named "proto-language 1", is PIE-like — fusional with strong hints at previous agglutination, gender system that's still coalescing, several cases — but most of the others will be very different; i'm trying to break out of my pseudo-europe comfort zone). figured out the rudiments of syntax and hammered out the nominal morphology, aa well as the numerals, and i just got done working through the verb endings. now to work on the basic vocabulary, or alternatively to go to bed

• did some preliminary research into tonal languages for this project
• looked into the history of writing on earth
• got the basics of the planet's orbit and moon figured out (solar day is 25:26:16 long; year is 327.85 days long, or about 347.49 earth days; two moons, each about half the mass of earth's moon, with the inner one having an orbit of 15.69 solar days and the outer 31.38 solar days)

[bradrn]

• did some preliminary research into tonal languages for this project

If you haven’t seen it yet, I like Yip’s Tone (2002).

[Emily]

• did some preliminary research into tonal languages for this project

If you haven’t seen it yet, I like Yip’s Tone (2002).

currently what i've seen is: wikipedia. i will definitely look into that book, thank you!

[bradrn]

• did some preliminary research into tonal languages for this project

If you haven’t seen it yet, I like Yip’s Tone (2002).

currently what i've seen is: wikipedia. i will definitely look into that book, thank you!

Oh, also, I forgot to mention Tengado’s introduction to autosegmental analysis: http://www.incatena.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=30954