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[Ares Land]

Thanks! That's very helpful, really.

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[Man in Space]

Well done!

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[hwhatting]

I don't remember whether you have a conworld going with Kala, but if there is, there absolutely must be people who use Kala glyphs because they look cool, and then spell nonsense with them, like they do with Chinese signs in our world

[Travis B.]

I don't remember whether you have a conworld going with Kala, but if there is, there absolutely must be people who use Kala glyphs because they look cool, and then spell nonsense with them, like they do with Chinese signs in our world

LOL

[WeepingElf]

I don't remember whether you have a conworld going with Kala, but if there is, there absolutely must be people who use Kala glyphs because they look cool, and then spell nonsense with them, like they do with Chinese signs in our world

At this point, I have to think of the translation snafus that make up the majority of Language Log posts, or an incident involving a German cultural studies journal that changed the cover of one issue because the Chinese characters on it had turned out to be an advertisement for a brothel.

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[hwhatting]

That's a great idea, to use storytelling to share your conworld with your child...
I made up bed-time stories for my daughter when she was young, but I never thought of basing some of them on Tarra - a pity, but now it's too late, she is way out of the age for bed-time stories

[WeepingElf]

Yes. The Hobbit came into being just that way.

[hwhatting]

Moved from the Conlang fluency thread, because I don't feel like the effort to discuss this in Tautisca :

hina na nkayohuan moyaye
I wrote about the week of flowers here.

Interesting calendar.
Do the Kala live on (some version of) our earth? If yes, does that mean that the 361 day calendar is perpetually out of synch with the solar year, and the dates move through the solar years like in the Islamic calendar? At least, I didn't see anything about leap days...

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[Man in Space]

If yes, does that mean that the 361 day calendar is perpetually out of synch with the solar year, and the dates move through the solar years like in the Islamic calendar?

Honestly, the calendar was something I developed for journaling in Kala and really doesn't go any further than that. I incorporated it into the bedtime stories for my daughter, but only as a way to mark events.

If you ever decide to track it more consistently, I recommend this service and use it for Twin Aster.

[hwhatting]

At least, I didn't see anything about leap days...

The very first line at the top of the page I linked to includes:

"The 26th of February through the 1st of March is called the nkayohua, or "flower-week". This period includes the 29th of February in leap years."

Yes, but that confused me - if it's a 361 day calendar, Gregorian February 29th wouldn't fall into the same period every year. Actually, your entire table of correspondences would go out of synch by 4 days every year, even if you include a leap day on the day equivalent to Feb. 29th. Or do I miss something here?
I mean, if the Tamaka don't live on earth and don't have contact with Earth, all that doesn't matter much, as there is no need to synch the calendars. It just intrigued me, and you obviously put in a lot of effort in the table of correspondences.

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[hwhatting]

If you look at the chart, the "timu" month ends on the 25th of February. The immediate successive month "tanka", begins on the 2nd of March. This means that in non-leap years the "week of flowers" includes the 26th February through the 1st of March with *no* February 29th, and conversely, in leap years, it *does* include the 29th of February, or in other words;

nkayohua = 4 days (5 days in leap year)

It tracks quite well, with no adjustment needed.

Probably should note that terms like "week" and "month" are something that I have played very loose with re this calendar, but the math checks out just fine.

Sorry, I just was dense - I didn't get that nkayohua is exactly the period that puts the Kala calendar in synch with the Earth calendar.

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