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Well, English does have some noun-verb compounds that behave as nouns (rock-climb, baby-sit, etc.), as well as a few more recent noun-noun compounds that behave the same way (head-desk, face-palm). That's not exactly the same thing, though, and compounds like that would probably have to become a lot...

Hey guys, just wanted to let people know that I haven't completely forgotten about Teles and the Taic languages. As I feared when I signed up, my other ongoing conlanging projects have forced this one onto the back burner. I am planning on doing more with Taic, and I'd be interested in talking to Ah...

This is really making me want to develop some clockpunk-ish ideas I've had in the back of my mind ever since I read Pasquale's Angel . For some reason I just love the idea of people tooling around in spring-driven carriages and stopping by water wheel-powered winding stations when they start to slow...

You can do some amazing things with mills, actually. The Chinese had blast furnaces with waterwheel-powered piston bellows from the first century AD, and by the 11th century the Song dynasty was using them to mass-produce more than two hundred million pounds of iron products per year. They might hav...

But a really huge city has to have water, wastewater, and sewage pumped, and the pumps need to be powered, and need to work 24/7; so maybe they just avoid really big cities? The city of Rome at one time supported a population in excess of one million with a water system more or less entirely powere...

The new map looks good! And as for my expansion map, I figure I'll eventually detail the history of the Taic-speaking peoples in more detail; I figure the map will just be sort of an outline of things to come. I figure the precise border between the Taic and Umbric language areas will be a matter of...

So here's a first draft of what I'm thinking for the Taic languages. As in the maps previous people have posted, red indicates the rough area of the Taic urheimat ca. 10,000 BK, yellow represents expansion by 6,000 BK, and green represents expansion by 2,000 BK. http://i.imgur.com/tM7zFIo.png The ba...

Just posted some basic info (mostly a phonemic inventory) of Proto-Taic. Phonologically it could *almost* be mistaken for a variety Quechua, but it's going to have a mostly isolating grammar with lots of particles. I am planning on giving it a little bit of inflectional morphology, however, with a c...

Alright, I'd like to claim the hill country along the middle reaches of the long river near the center of the eastern continent. I've represented the rough area of my claim on the following map in magenta: http://i.imgur.com/FocmJvv.png I'm imagining the area as semi-arid oak savannah. The language ...

I'm interested, though somewhat hesitant due to other demands on my time; is there an indication anywhere of what the grid lines on the physical geography map represent? I'm trying to get a feel for where different climate zones might lie.

Rrób Tè Jĕhnò has a base-6 numeral system with dedicated mono-morphemic terms for the multiples of six up to 36. Note that the pronunciation of final stops can vary significantly depending on the sounds that follow them. 1. p’íg [p’ík] 2. kú [kʰúː] 3. t’úgh [t’úq] 4. pé [pʰéː] 5. fàì [fɛ̀ː] 6. dlyă ...

It's suspected that /ɢ/ is rare because the constriction so far back in the throat prevents the amount of air flow that is generally required for clear voicing. /ɴ/ is actually even rarer than /ɢ/, I think; it mostly occurs as an allophone of /ŋ/ next to uvular obstruents.

My own interests and experience lie primary in California and the adjoining culture areas, but I'm really fascinated by population migrations, trade, and culture contact, and I'm always happy to learn more about other areas.

Lao Kou wrote:Next: joumöks [ˈdʒaʊmøks] n. leftovers

Yipta:

tsawm'aqs [tsæwˀmɑqʃ] n. scraps, dregs, undesirable or useless remains
from tsawm, "refuse, offal" + 'aqs "broken pieces, remains"

Next: gerv [gɚv] v. agree

The ʔuuleo (an Akanan conpeople living on the northwest coast of Peliaš) place a great deal of social importance on preparing and sharing food. Their agricultural staples are buckwheat and dairy products (made primarily from goat milk), but they supplement these with fish, game and wild plants gathe...

Hmàd nyâ xe rrĕwŏ, o xe haidlŏ nyĕnyĕsrú rĕhxĕqáígh háí. CNSTR/village 1S NEG be.big and NEG 1PL.AN=get many-leader rule 1PL.AN My village isn't large, and we don't need many leaders to govern us. Dorrŏ dlréd mò dlo haită fi ĕbă fi húb, o qisú fi fĕzréd gi rrĕcó, q’e hainyè ghŭ ĕwĕgrég ne rrĕjí fe ...

Next: What are some of the common superstitions held by typical members of your concultures? The primary deity of the Tè Jĕhnò is the sky goddess Ká , and it is believed that malign spirits can't long endure her gaze under the open sky. They are believed, therefore, to lurk in caves, disused shelte...

- males more aggressive, violent, and prone to theft. This one certainly isn't true. I'm pretty sure there are warrior-woman cultures, but you don't have to look beyond europe for counterexamples. Northern European urban areas in the 18th century: women were just as prone to theft as men, and almos...

This is something I came up with for a now more-or-less abandoned conlang that was based mostly on an odd blending of Malagasy and Mutsun. I think Ogham's really neat, and it struck me that a similar script might actually work more intuitively as a syllabary, so that's what I've done here. The symb...

In Yipta, klat is the morpheme that forms the core of most terms relating to affection. Alone, it can be be used as a verb meaning "to trust" or "to embrace," and connotes a willingness to make oneself vulnerable in order to become closer with another. Used as a noun, it has the literally means "bel...