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I also made a table summarizing the morpheme chains (three possibilities, I haven't decided):
An example of a "full" conjugation:
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Sick and miserable today so I'm breaking out my ideas for an a posteriori Brittonic language, meant to be vaguely recognizable as a sister to Welsh. I'm currently considering diverging a little further back than I'd originally planned, before the stress change + apocope in late Common Brittonic, and keeping cases.
she/her or he/him
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update it has been ten straight hours of hyperfocusing and i have more or less satisfactorily worked out how the consonant mutations interface with the cases. time to mangle some vowels
she/her or he/him
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Out of curiosity, how far ahead are you with the morphology?
/j/ <j>
Ɂaləɂahina asəkipaɂə ileku omkiroro salka.
Loɂ ɂerleku asəɂulŋusikraɂə seləɂahina əɂətlahɂun əiŋɂiɂŋa.
Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ.
Ɂaləɂahina asəkipaɂə ileku omkiroro salka.
Loɂ ɂerleku asəɂulŋusikraɂə seləɂahina əɂətlahɂun əiŋɂiɂŋa.
Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ.
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Quite feverishly I have worked on a small language family that is tonal and has the bilabial-velar stops that Gleb likes so much. The setting is similar, if not identical to that of Lower Fleming River, perhaps slightly more.. papuany?
My pitfall with LFR was my buckshot approach. I started working on multitudinous things all at the same time and subsequently lost track of what had been decided for the language rapidly. I'm scatterbrained like that. With the new language, I try to follow the curriculum set out in Conlanging Year. It holds to a leisurely pace and includes enough worldbuilding and historical stuff to keep me engaged (for now).
My pitfall with LFR was my buckshot approach. I started working on multitudinous things all at the same time and subsequently lost track of what had been decided for the language rapidly. I'm scatterbrained like that. With the new language, I try to follow the curriculum set out in Conlanging Year. It holds to a leisurely pace and includes enough worldbuilding and historical stuff to keep me engaged (for now).
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I... I think I may have just finished the verb paradigms for my L conlang, which have turned out to be quite complex, but not unwieldy. Unless something unforeseen crops up, I may have just finally achieved something that I'm happy with.
Unsuccessfully conlanging since 1999.
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Congratulations!
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Congratulations - it is a great feeling having found out something about one's own conlang that had taken long to decide upon!
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Today and yesterday, I worked on practice scripts, coming to decisions about layout, what features I like making repeat and which I'd rather omit from the script.
I'm getting closer, i think, to making a non-practice conscript.
I'm getting closer, i think, to making a non-practice conscript.
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Decided to include the negative "conjugation" to the paradigm. As you'll see, the affirmative now has two directive/commandative moods, the Jussive is a general demand/request mood but with an obligative or desirative flavor. Translated into to English as "want/must VERB". The Imperative is much like the Jussive but it is used for more expedient and immediate demands and thus is more forceful. There is no form for the first persons (the Jussive is used for (co)hortative expressions)
Notably, there is no distinction between the Jussive and Imperative in the negative conjugation.
I should add that the negative conjugation also comes with it's own (optional) set of negative pronouns (for emphasis or whatever)
Notably, there is no distinction between the Jussive and Imperative in the negative conjugation.
I should add that the negative conjugation also comes with it's own (optional) set of negative pronouns (for emphasis or whatever)
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Not today but last night. I've been bogolanging some words for planets, months and the like for my story world using proto-Germanic as a base (when available) and rederiving terms using less-than-perfect sound change lists. Then I just figure a good way to write the result for English readers and I have something vaguely familiar, but still just a bit outside normal English. Most recently I've come up with the "English" names of the 12 months as well as Fivedy, the five day period outside the normal calendar year, after the 12th month and before the first (consider it an extended New Years celebration). So that's been fun.
Also recently, I came up with the name of the star (Suna), and the planets in the system. I'll have to come up with other strategies for other human cultures and for aliens, but this has at least scratched the itch of having a good way to come up with names of things that don't exist here-and-now.
Also recently, I came up with the name of the star (Suna), and the planets in the system. I'll have to come up with other strategies for other human cultures and for aliens, but this has at least scratched the itch of having a good way to come up with names of things that don't exist here-and-now.
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Not so much today as over the last couple of days, but I am now on Page 12 of my attempt-at-a-novel. Doesn't sound like much, I know, but I hadn't thought I'd even get that far.
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Oh, it’s far better than I could imagine doing!
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What is the attempted novel about?
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Oh, based on what I've seen of your politics so far, I don't think you would like it; it is rather socialist. It's science fiction about a future Earth making contact with aliens, all while the protagonist is coming of age, experiencing what TV Tropes calls "That One Summer". I thought that might be a combination that hasn't been done too often yet.
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Don't you worry about my ideology, Raphael. All the best for your creative endeavours!
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Thank you!