... (the ... Congrats! That's a great book. One of the best old TY's that they freakishly and mysteriously just decided to stop reprinting one day (another one...
... Each of the Six Loquent Peoples uses a simple form for naming. Each of the Ethrans and the Xylans, all of which Peoples were created all at once, bears a...
Hi! A friend who helps with the conculture of þrjótran has shortly released the second part of the Romans in Scandinavia trilogy. Nice pictures and a...
The winner of the 2006 Smiley Award is Kalusa. http://kalusa.fiziwig.com/ Though it hasn't been around long, Gary Shannon's Kalusa is probably the most...
Hey all, As Larry Sulky pointed out recently, it would be nice if there was some sort of a way to recognize conlangs. Partly in response to this, and partly...
Well, the book arrived. So far I have only briefly reviewed the phonology and verb conjugation, but this small sampling is enough to convince me that Georgian...
... A common problem, and the source of several long and rambunctious discussions here and elsewhere. There are a number of terms, like this, that have similar...
Let's think up some entertainingly spurious derivations for common words and phrases. Barbecue - From "Bar Becu", Jewish surname, mentioned in an apocryphal...
In "Gods of Riverworld", Philip Jose Farmer has one character, Loga, shout out "I tsab u!", which is translated as "Who are you?" This is identified as the ...
Hanuman Zhang wrote: (snip various quotes....) ... Thank you, Hanuman. It hasn't been an easy trip, but I've arrived at the same station. ... "Do I contradict...
Might ask over on the CONLANG (Constructed Language) list? Zarthani was basically a form of Indo-Iranian/Aryan, that instead of going east and south into India...
Some changes in the base language and how used might need to happen. Write and Right, same word, but different spelling, but pronounced the same? So Enscribe? ...
One thing I noticed with Star Trek, is that the humans, vulcans, romulans, Rigelians and Klingons seem to have a common ancestor or what? Humans can breed with...
... Also true in the US, but there isn't much hesitation/overlap. The "draught" spelling is these days only used for the sense of "on tap", while a slight...
Dear list, I found an old lecture handout showing a tabularized semantic field for prepositions. I have had the memory of this lying disquietly at the back of...
Materials on Michif, an interesting contact/pidgin/creole/hard-to-classify language of the Metis. http://www.metisresourcecentre.mb.ca/language/language.htm ...
[TETRAPHTHONGS] Are there tetraphthongs? What are some? What languages are they in? [TRIPHTHONGS 1] Why do some folks say the existence of triphthongs is...
One of the many happy results of the Kalusa project is a truly workable, customizable, and enjoyable method of creating a corpus and lexicon for a conlang....
Well, I know you have "village" talk, which is what happenes when you have people whose primary language is not English, be it Yupik "eskimo", but its not all...
English has a distinct way of using the passive voice. Normally, it is used to stress the patient of the action: He hits the ball - the ball was hit (by him). ...
I was reading a phonology text* discussing differences in voice onset time ("VOT") in occlusives. In order from early to late VOT they divide 'em into five...
Khangaþyagon has a single, invariable word order, VSO. Its descendent, Mágikimnaz, had a variable word order, determined by definiteness (definite NPs occur...
From: "Yahya Abdal-Aziz" <yahya@...> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:25 PM ... Should be doable in Ayeri (because I still don't pay too much attention...
I know from history, that modern Hebrew is sort of a language of lore, but also a conlang since it was added to to make modern Hebrew, but also it is now a...
Hi all, ... Exactly ... great plot idea for a story! Hey, I feel a film script coming on. ... Yep, Philip, you've hit the nail on the head ... I have a little...
