I've been #conlanging for the past month for my invented language #Tanasni, and I really enjoy it. My goal is a #base_vocabulary of 1500 words. With that #flueunt_conversation will be possible. I am at the halfway point, mainly because half that existed with the current draft of my #novel.
#writing
However, Kāg has another meaning if assigned an animate marker...that being "crab".
Therefore, a shield can be thought of as a "forearm crab".
Perhaps if I create a word for "helm", it could also mean "skull crab"...
#linguistics #conlanging #phori
...which fits into a similar semantic core with words like Rigār ("crown").
For example, if one would denote the USA in modern Phori, the term would be 'Amerikariga'...or, more likely with clipping, 'Ameriga'.
#linguistics #histling #conlanging #phori
For polar (Y/N) questions, one would append -ha [hɑ], inserting schwa if it follows a non-glide consonant.
On the other hand, Wh-questions use -wa [wɑ], alternating as just -a if following any non-vowel.
#linguistics #morphophonetics #conlanging
#Lexarch Week 1
Words (9/7): Urūr (n, “snarl/growl”), Urūbū (v, “to howl”), Gūr (n, “wolf”), Kur (n.dim, “wolf pup”), Gūri᷈r (n, “werewolf”), Ṣaṣa (n, “hiss”), Ṣaṣu (v, “to hiss”), Ṣaṣ (n, “snake/serpent”), Nadi᷈l (n, “adder snake”)
#linguistics #conlanging #phori
Yes my artlang is an ego-last language:
"The corpse is resting on the alter, I solemnly weep." #conlanging
...rather than further complicate the syntax/grammar.
#conlanging #linguistics
Seeing as it is often said mockingly after failing to evade such a blow, whether due to inexperience or hubris, it is literally adding insult to injury.
#linguistics #conlanging
r/CasualConlangs Weekly Translation #14: "Listen to the sound of all the birds in the trees."
#phori #aurem #conlanging #linguistics
The former refers to more artistic, recreational markings of the skin, while the latter has associations with less savory reasons for such markings.
#linguistics #conlanging
Some #phori paradigm leveling!
E᷈gi ("human being) → Ezi
E᷈gūm ("animal") → Ezūm
This is mostly to draw an analogy with the modern form of the verb for "to live", Ezū, as well as other adjacent words.
#conlanging #linguistics
i wonder if conlanging community is a circlejerk.
#clong #conlang #conlanging
I'd like to do something like reviewing clongs (and natlangs?!) janMisali style and making my own ones public
but is it even worth the effort if it's 30 people's interest
r/CasualConlangs Weekly Translation #13: “The weather is warming, soon it will be swimming weather.”
#phori #aurem #linguistics #conlanging
Two rain-related potential idioms in #phori given the recent weather near me...
#linguistics #conlanging
In #phori, the word would be Rize᷈gū [ɾiʒəgʊ], derived from the root for "empire/kingdom", Riga, and the verb, Ze᷈ku, which means "to stop, end, or finish".
Add a causative affix, and you get Rize᷈gedū, "to usurp".
#conlanging #linguistics #conlangingwordoftheday
r/CasualConlangs Weekly Translation #12: “All the plants are beginning to sprout.”
#phori #aurem #conlanging #linguistics
In #phori, this word would be Ẓe᷈ki᷈mire [ʐəkɪmiɺe], deriving from the adjective for "false", Ẓe᷈þ, and the words for "dream" and "echo/reverberation", Kir and Mirā, respectively. So this word basically means "false dream echo" in the language.
#conlanging #conlangingwordoftheday
This is my current #read. I completed a novel last fall and am in the process of a final draft. In it, I use a #fictional_language of a satyr god. I call it "Tanasni". I am currently trying to make sure all my ducks are in a row. It's actually fun.
#writing #conlanging #writing #reading
Given the origins seem a bit murky (no pun intended), figuring out an equivalent in #aurem was tricky, but I eventually settled on Raske [ɹaske], roughly meaning "rabble". As for #phori, it would have the word, Rapaṣi [ɾɑpɑʂi], meaning "rascal/rogue".
#conlanging #linguistics #conlangingwordoftheday
In #aurem, the word is Züzägë [zʊzægɛ], derived from the verb, Züzäget, "to synchronize/unify", which also derives into the word for "eclipse", Züzöhlün.
#conlanging #linguistics #conlangingwordoftheday
A clarification of the allomorphy of the non-pronoun plural suffix. The base form is '-ṣen' [ʂeɳ], and it always follows the animacy marker. However, if the noun stem ends in a voice obstruent, it also becomes voiced (ṣ → ẓ), and often shortened to -ṣ/-ẓ in casual speech.
#phori #conlanging
...the word would be Gūri᷈m [gʊɾɪm], which blends the verb for "proliferate", Gūri᷈nu, and the locative oblique marker, -m(e᷈).
#linguistics #conlanging #conlangingwordoftheday
I am pondering how to deal with irregular spellings (e.g. Llu [jɯ]) and the labialized-K ([kʷ], currently spelled as kh/kw) for another stage of orthographic regularization in #phori. Maybe kh > k, and ll > y?
#linguistics #orthography #conlanging
Just performed a stage of regularization to the #phori lexicon, mostly orthographic, but a few words have changed here and there (e.g. Ubgo→ Ugo, Etzhu → Ezū, Sze᷈ → Ẓū).
The main changes are as follows (same phonology):
- ch → č
- sh → ṣ ; sz → ẓ
- zh → z
#neography #conlanging #linguistics
