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So not a palatalization but a consonant cluster, noted

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I’m back after a few months off the site.

So, what’d I miss?

Aside from. You know.

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How well do you see color?

I’m cry I scored 60, I feel blind

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Have no idea why I didn't just use /a/ smh

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/li-vəʊ-nʲa/

Would that be an accurate transcription of the sounds?

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LMAO ARE YOU ACTUALLY DAVID J PETERSON? Gotta tell my conlang professor about this. We’re reading “the art of language invention” for that class— the more I think about it, the more I realize how perfectly the writing voice in that book fits into tumblr. (And I also hate onions)

Yep, it me. I was on Tumblr when I was writing that book. If you're culinarily inclined (or have someone in your life who is), I recommend replacing onion with fennel. In works in every recipe except salsa. Where's your class? There are so many conlang classes now, but it was quite a rarily when I was in college. Hope it's a good experience!

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Having the "talk", not the sex one but the linguistics one where they explain to all the linguistics majors who are about to work with a consultant that normal people think it's weird when you get visibly excited after hearing them say "duck" in their native language.

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Monitor Council

Ministry of Internal Affairs

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I'm thinking popular vote and written test but what would be the contents of the test

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happy sts!

i see in your intro post that you have created seven conlangs, would you like to yap about them?

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YES YES YES YES YES YES. YOU WILL REGRET THIS.

The first I'll talk about is Akrausian, and I'll probably only mention two in this post so I can go into great detail >:3 Akrausian is the language of a very military society, Akraus, which is at the base of the mountain that Morkus is on top of, and the two are essentially opposites.

Akrausian is about simplicity and practicality, so it helpfully has no tenses and no genders. On the plus side, this it's way easier to learn, so once you've got afsie/tosie/tohrsie (they/them/theirs), eisie/mouchsie/wirsie (you, me, we), and tiesie (it), you're good to go, pronoun wise! Tense wise, it's all in the present tense, so a sentence for the past would probably be (directly) translated something like "Yesterday, we are having tea" or so forth.

Types of words often have patterns to be easily recognisable; pronouns have the -sie suffix, connectives have the -ai suffix (uai (and), wiai (as), for example); verbs have the -en suffix (machen, tomitten, stamachen | stab, cut, stop) and so forth.

Of course, it's not all easy. Akrausian has three layers; the format in which I've been sharing words so far, or the council format, where words are said in full; the standard/military format, and the Oh Fuck You're In Trouble Now format (I need a real name for this that's not that. I was thinking the command format, but that then implies other formats can't be a command...).

Take stamachen, for example: in council format, the word for stop takes its full form; in standard/military format, it becomes stamach; in [command] format, it becomes sta.

The idea of this is then that the level of urgency is imbued into the word. The time needed to say it is decreased based on the urgency the situation requires; if someone shouted sta!, a lot of people would freeze immediately.

For hautikos, which is a less easily chopped up word: in council format, it has its full form; in standard/military format, it becomes hautkos; in [command] format, it becomes hotkis (the vowels being shortened rather than syllables being removed).

If you wanted to go them!, the word tosie: its full form in council format; in standard/military format, it becomes toos, in [command] format it can be toss or tis depending on accent. (The original word is pronounced with an o sound like saying "oh".)

I actually designed Akrausian for in-story use, which means that the order in which words were created is really fucking funny, because you get words like niuros (whore), haustikos (pet), skoten (kill), akstummen (maim), machen (stab), and tomitten (cut). Incredible set of first words.

...Maybe I don't have room to talk about Morkan. Someone send me an ask talking about Morkan. I yearn to talk about Morkan.

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happy sts!

i see in your intro post that you have created seven conlangs, would you like to yap about them?

writblr: @vsnotresponding

YES YES YES YES YES YES. YOU WILL REGRET THIS.

The first I'll talk about is Akrausian, and I'll probably only mention two in this post so I can go into great detail >:3 Akrausian is the language of a very military society, Akraus, which is at the base of the mountain that Morkus is on top of, and the two are essentially opposites.

Akrausian is about simplicity and practicality, so it helpfully has no tenses and no genders. On the plus side, this it's way easier to learn, so once you've got afsie/tosie/tohrsie (they/them/theirs), eisie/mouchsie/wirsie (you, me, we), and tiesie (it), you're good to go, pronoun wise! Tense wise, it's all in the present tense, so a sentence for the past would probably be (directly) translated something like "Yesterday, we are having tea" or so forth.

Types of words often have patterns to be easily recognisable; pronouns have the -sie suffix, connectives have the -ai suffix (uai (and), wiai (as), for example); verbs have the -en suffix (machen, tomitten, stamachen | stab, cut, stop) and so forth.

Of course, it's not all easy. Akrausian has three layers; the format in which I've been sharing words so far, or the council format, where words are said in full; the standard/military format, and the Oh Fuck You're In Trouble Now format (I need a real name for this that's not that. I was thinking the command format, but that then implies other formats can't be a command...).

Take stamachen, for example: in council format, the word for stop takes its full form; in standard/military format, it becomes stamach; in [command] format, it becomes sta.

The idea of this is then that the level of urgency is imbued into the word. The time needed to say it is decreased based on the urgency the situation requires; if someone shouted sta!, a lot of people would freeze immediately.

For hautikos, which is a less easily chopped up word: in council format, it has its full form; in standard/military format, it becomes hautkos; in [command] format, it becomes hotkis (the vowels being shortened rather than syllables being removed).

If you wanted to go them!, the word tosie: its full form in council format; in standard/military format, it becomes toos, in [command] format it can be toss or tis depending on accent. (The original word is pronounced with an o sound like saying "oh".)

I actually designed Akrausian for in-story use, which means that the order in which words were created is really fucking funny, because you get words like niuros (whore), haustikos (pet), skoten (kill), akstummen (maim), machen (stab), and tomitten (cut). Incredible set of first words.

...Maybe I don't have room to talk about Morkan. Someone send me an ask talking about Morkan. I yearn to talk about Morkan.

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I'm finally practicing my conlang again. Here's what I have so far...

Miolnet - Moon Woman/The Sister (paired with female/neuter-female)/Night Man/The Brother (paired with male/neuter-male)

Nir- - female/neuter-female/sibling

Nak- - male/neuter-male/sibling

Ho- - humanoid

Ma- - feral

Mana- rabid

Tu- - little

Sein- - large

Skauau - canine

Lilo - rodent

Skir- - sound

Ser-skirnen - heard

Ser-skirna - to hear/hearing

Hin- - up/high/sky/flight

Kos- - low/down/water/below

Taunu - feline

Ser - sense

Num - night/dark

Miin - sun/day/light

Nair - middle

Seskauau - wolf

Ho-seskauau - lycanthrope

Ma-seskauau - rabid wolf

Tu-seskauau - little wolf/cub

Sein-seskauau - large wolf

Skir-sesku - to howl

Skir-seskun - howling/howled

Kiskauau - dog

Ho-kiskauau - kyanthrope

Ma-kiskauau - feral dog

Mana-Kiskauau - rabid dog

Tu-kiskauau - little dog/puppy

Sein-kiskauau - large dog

Skir-kisku - to bark

Skir-kiskon - barking/barked

(Skir-)Keek-keek - chirping insect/nightfall Hrr-hen - growl/to growl

Hrr-henen - growling/growled

Kosnum Nak - late night

Hinnum-Nair - midnight

Hinnum-miin - sunrise/end

Auna - whimpering/to whimper

Aunum - whimpered

Sein-ser - strong sense

Kos-ser - weak sense

Num-ser - echolocation

Skir-lilo - to squeak

Skir-Lilon - squeaking/sqeaked

Tu-lilon - mouse/gerbil

Sein-lilon - rat

Hin-lilon - squirrel/chipmunk

Kos-lilon - raccon/beaver/porcupine

Taunen - cat

Ma-taunen - feral cat

Mana-taunen - rabid cat

Tu-taunen - little cat/kitten

Sein-taunen - big cat

Skir-taunu - to meow

Skir-taunun - meowing/meowed

Ten - you

Meijel - me

Iney - I

Ten-meijel - you + me

Meirel - us (as in more than two, a small group)

Ten-meirel - us + you Ter - them/they

Ter-meirel - we (for a group + a group)

Ter-meijel - we (for a pair + a group)

Na - and

De - the

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ðocaç "haunting"

ðocaç /ðoˈkats/ [ðʊˈkas]

bedevilment, torment, vexation, the affliction of (especially mental) distress;

trauma, haunting, hell, the aftereffects of terrible experiences

Etymology: noun derivation from the verb ðocar "harrow, till; afflict, bedevil, torment, haunt" with the pejorative suffix -aç (from Latin -āceus "shaped like"). The verb descends from Vulgar Latin adoccō "I till, harrow", an extension of the synonymous occō in Classical Latin. The verb gains its emotional senses in the sixteenth century.

Y ðocaç lour coy de dormir ec noit. /i ðoˈkats lur kɔi de dɔrˈmɪr ɛk nɔit/ [i ðʊˈkas lʊː kɔi de dʊːˈmɪː‿ʀɛg nɔit] df trauma 3p.obl stop from sleep-ing p.px night The trauma keeps them up at night.

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Not now friend, I'm having an idea of unreasonable scope and requirements significantly beyond my skill level

I shall return when all inevitably goes to shit

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what 1 changed sound shift, a change in analysis and a reorganisation of a chart does to an inflection system

So I went over all of the verbs and noun semantically, and re-did the nouns' sound changes. Now I only need to do that to the verbs and reformat the dictionary.

Now about these charts, they summerize the verb inflection paradigm for Ngįout. What I changed the most was the chart for the 1st conjugation.

The thing about it is that on the surface level, it seems very complicated, with all the ablaut, consonant dropping and all, but it is entirely predictable. However, having the root in the dictionary be the undelying form is a bit of a pain, having to derive it all every time. So I changed the analysos to one of stems!

Instead of just having the root lEn- and having to do all the assimilations of the final n-, there are now three principle parts! - lE-, lEd-, lEn-. It is all very nice and simple. the ablaut is still not specified in the stems, because the same stem can occur with different ablaut vowels. So instead of having like 8 different stems which specifiy all the ablaut aswell, they just take care of what happens to the stem final consonants.

An example of an old entry:

gÜz- (1C) *gus- vt. "to bite"

An now it's:

gÜz- (1C) gÜss-, gÜz- ◇ *gus- �� vt. punc. ◇ "to bite"

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YouTube wont stop giving me language study video essays?? you watch one "cute language for hot people" video and suddenly the whole site is about conlang studies.