Zompist Bboard Again

doctor shark wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 4:09 pm Boredom begets shiny things?
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Lemme guess, this is from a big-C Communist country?

Travis B. wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 5:16 pm

doctor shark wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 4:09 pm Boredom begets shiny things?
[snip]

Lemme guess, this is from a big-C Communist country?

It's a country that wishes to be one, but whether or not it's successful is a different story. (Maybe I'll do a write-up about my concountries when I have motivation and energy...)

I reopened a Muskogean conlang I've had sitting around for a long time, and it's finally taking shape. Any suggestions what I should translate first now that's becoming something usable?

Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 6:53 pm I reopened a Muskogean conlang I've had sitting around for a long time, and it's finally taking shape.

congrats!

Any suggestions what I should translate first now that's becoming something usable?

maybe road signs or passages from media?

'Right Turn Ahead / Right Turn Here'

'You with the freckles. Stay here.'

redid the names of the days of the weeks in gothic; came up with the words for "yesterday", "today", "tomorrow"; posted it all to anthologica

Classical Âirumâli:

• zaitípa (n., solar, inanimate) a paella-like dish made with zaitín (q.v.) and Daia-native seafood
• pwápwàta (n., solar, inanimate) flour made with píwapiwà (Daia-native grains)
• kârê (vi.) to dive
• ámi (n., animate, solar) oyster
• tuqàl (n., astral, inanimate) oyster
• tuqàl ámila (n., hybrid astral/solar, inanimate) oyster sauce
• kó (n., lunar, inanimate) pie
• waí (n., solar, inanimate) juice (esp. fruit juice)
• pwáidi (n., solar, animate) hard cider
• û (n., lunar, animate) mead
• wrâlu (n., lunar, abst) fruit
• wrâlitêl (n., astral, animate) wine (of any fruit)
• ŷtl (n., astral, inanimate) honey
• árawre (n., solar, animate) sake, used as a libation far more than a drink

Some new words in Ardinian:

• bibis (all sorts of)

• ceat (gather, collect)

• dhelge (prayer)

• fehis (head)

• fevis (principal, head, chief, core, cardinal)

• huvisakha (grammar)

• hiovas (good, well)

• huonos (bad, poor, wicked)

• pahas (bad, evil, ill; ill-suited, difficult; serious, urgent)

• paros (best, good; fitting, appropriate, adroit; calm, controlled)

• velongo (company, posse, group of men)

Arzena wrote: ↑Wed Apr 30, 2025 9:05 am Some new words in Ardinian:

• bibis (all sorts of)

• ceat (gather, collect)

• dhelge (prayer)

• fehis (head)

• fevis (principal, head, chief, core, cardinal)

• huvisakha (grammar)

• hiovas (good, well)

• huonos (bad, poor, wicked)

• pahas (bad, evil, ill; ill-suited, difficult; serious, urgent)

• paros (best, good; fitting, appropriate, adroit; calm, controlled)

• velongo (company, posse, group of men)

Is this based on Finnish?

I have finally done a little bit of conlanging after a long pause. There's a project where I was reworking a dictionary. This includes things like changing the way I phrase certain things and what abbreviations I use. It's difficult to remember how I had intended the new version of the dictionary to be like.
And there's ca 1100 entries and last time I had only made it to the letter B.

Ardinian serves as the Greco-Latin proxy for my conworlding project Ecaria. You are correct in identifying Finnish as inspiration for several of the words in the list (I realized one day that I needed words for 'good', 'bad', etc and I happened upon those Finnish words browsing through the translation section of Wiktionary and rather brazenly appropriated them). Ardinian's larger inspirations are Latin, Lithuanian, and Arabic.

restarted a PIE descendant from scratch for like the fourth time. the idea is that first and foremost i want to preserve the laryngeals much more than any language did irl, and secondly preserve all three velar series rather than merging any of them. couldn't decide which of a couple options i liked better (develop the voiced aspirates into voiced fricatives or approximants? derive the palato- and plain velars as palatals and velars, or as velars and uvulars?) so i basically said fuck it, there's four dialects and we're doing wave theory instead of family tree. hell yeah babyyyyy, will post more when it's a little more solidified

I came up with a translation of The North Wind and the Sun in Rihalle Kaafi.

I posted a (set of) question(s) about, I think, an example of the linguistic Localist hypothesis.

Emily wrote: ↑Wed Jun 11, 2025 1:56 am preserve all three velar series rather than merging any of them.

Albanian did this before front vowels:
- thjell-ët < *ḱelH-
- qel < *kel-
- sjell < *kʷel-

(je is a regular outcome of *e; IIRC e is regular after q gj)

But not before back vowels:
- thak < *ḱokh₂o- (cf. Lith. šakà, Skt. śā́khā)
- kap < *kap-
- katër < *kʷtur- (unclear form but cf. Lat. quattuor - there can't have been a front vowel of the *kʷetwores type)

Luwian is also said to preserve the three series.

A day or so ago I reworked my The North Wind and the Sun translation so it would be part of my conlang site.

I have an alpha release of my word generator, Vocabug-lite. I would much appreciate if anyone could tell me what they think of it.

https://neonnaut.neocities.org/vocabug-lite

Neonnaut wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:47 am I have an alpha release of my word generator, Vocabug-lite. I would much appreciate if anyone could tell me what they think of it.

https://neonnaut.neocities.org/vocabug-lite

My first thought is: ‘needs documentation’! It looks like it could be useful, but it’s hard to work out what each bit actually does.

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:49 am

Neonnaut wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:47 am I have an alpha release of my word generator, Vocabug-lite. I would much appreciate if anyone could tell me what they think of it.

https://neonnaut.neocities.org/vocabug-lite

My first thought is: ‘needs documentation’! It looks like it could be useful, but it’s hard to work out what each bit actually does.

What do you mean of course there's documentation. the link to documentation is at the top of the screen.

Neonnaut wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 9:30 am

bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Jun 27, 2025 6:49 am

Neonnaut wrote: ↑Thu Jun 26, 2025 12:47 am I have an alpha release of my word generator, Vocabug-lite. I would much appreciate if anyone could tell me what they think of it.

https://neonnaut.neocities.org/vocabug-lite

My first thought is: ‘needs documentation’! It looks like it could be useful, but it’s hard to work out what each bit actually does.

What do you mean of course there's documentation. the link to documentation is at the top of the screen.

Oh, whoops. Somehow my brain skipped right over that link. (Possibly because it looks like part of the title…)

I'm doing a new read/re-read of The Language Construction Kit. I've had the second version of the eBook for quite some time but when I came back to conlanging and found that the newest print version had new material, I ordered it!

I'm hoping to get to finishing the phonology of my proto-language soon, though struggling a bit but I love the LCK a lot and reading it is giving me even more worldbuilding ideas.