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I’ve uploaded the newest version of the Nyjichun wikis! There is now one for the grammar and one for the lexicon (aka, all the words). They are SO a work in progress and are full of notes to myself and half-finished stuff.
In addition to that, I recently made a twine game for a jam on itch.io. I redid my conlang Tynthna. It now has actual IPA sounds and a few more words than it did before. And lots of sound recordings! Which may or may not be accurately said! (when in doubt, the orthography is canon). You can play it in your browser on itch.io.
That makes three conlangs that I’m sort of currently working on: Nyjichun, Tynthna, and Ie. I’ve also done a tiny bit in Ylis (the language of the Thunderian capital) lately, because I needed to be able to say Thunderian for on A Heroic Moment without actually referencing Thundercats. (It’s Lunderka for singular and Lunderkusa for plural – and that’s literally the only words I have for it right now, because the old version was from before I knew what IPA was).
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Lexember 2017 - Nyjichxn #6
I don’t get to garden today. The Santa Ana winds damaged the fence so one of my roommates and the neighbor are fixing it. So instead, ya’ll get updates! Yay!
One of the fun but sometimes frustrating things about translating is that you keep finding situations where what you did before doesn’t work. This is one of them. In previous sentences zɯ got the accusative case marker, but it could be replaced by the answer. So, new rule was noted: zɯ can’t be replaced by an object answering the question, it’s unmarked.
| Lexeme: | sɯa |
|---|---|
| Gloss: | world, planet |
| Combination Form: | sɯ |
| Stress: | IPA: | Ŋyjichɯn phonetic: | ||
| Singular: | sɯa | – | sɯa | sɯa |
| Paucal: | soosɯ | soosɯ | ˈsɜːʔ.zɯ | soo’zɯ |
| Plural: | sɯasɯ | sɯasɯ | sɯɜ.ˈzɯ | sɯozɯ |
| suizɯasɯn sychiyvmowza zɯ | |||
| sɯa<uiz>ɯa-sɯn | symow-za (stem: syza) | zɯ | |
| planet<PEJ>planet-ACC | origin<1s.SBJ-3s.POBJ>you-origin | what | |
| What damn planet are you from? | |||
| Phonetic: | suisɯazɯŋ | sijiyvmoza | zɯ |
|---|---|---|---|
| IPA: | sʊy.ˈsɯa.zɯŋ | sy.ˈdʒɪiv.ɱɜ.ˌza | zɯ |
PEJ = pejorative
Singular, Paucal, and Plural
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Lexember 2017 - Nyjichxn #5
Lexeme: rozvya
Gloss: anger, angry
Irregularity: Noun – Type 1 (no plural or paucal)
Stress: rozvya
Phonetic (IPA / Ŋyjichɯn transliteration): ⱱɜ.ˈzia / βozya
Combination Form: βozyAnd with that I’m caught up, at least for Ŋyjichɯn
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Lexember 2017 – Nyjichxn #4
Lexeme: vijjoa
Gloss: emotion, feeling, characteristic, attribute
| Stress: | IPA: | Ŋyjichɯn phonetic: | ||
| Singular: | vijjoa | vijjoa | vʏ.ˈzɜa | vizoa |
| Paucal: | vijjooj | vijjoojo | vʏ.ˈdʒɜːʔ.dʒɜ | vijoo’jo |
| Plural: | vijjojo | vijjojo | vʏ.ˈdʒa.dʒɜ | vijajo |
Listen (singular, paucal, plural):
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Lexember 2017 - Nyjichxn #1
Yup, doing Lexember again this year. Yup, I’m behind. The plan is actually to do it for the two languages I’m working on, Ŋyjichɯn and Ie. I’ll have to get caught up on Ie later, but it’s easier because it doesn’t have all the alternation and crap that Ŋyjichɯn does.
Anyway, here’s my first lexeme for the month:
Lexeme: chyjɒovi
Gloss: ice, slush, freeze
Irregularity: Noun – Type 1 (no plural or paucal)
Stress: chyjɒovi
Phonetic (IPA / Ŋyjichɯn transliteration): ˈtʃi.dʒɑɜ.ˌvʏ / chyjɒovi
matry – berry, small fruit paucal / plural: matryyry / matryry pronounced: motβy / motβyy’ry / motβyry IPA: ɱɜd.ˈⱱi / ɱɜd.ˈⱱiːʔ.ɾi / ɱɜd.ˈⱱi.ɾi
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joztiizz – wrong, evil, bad, sin, to do wrong, to do evil Stress: joztiizz Phonetic (IPA / Ŋyjichɯn transliteration): dʒɜz.ˈɾʏːs / jozriis Combination Form: jozti Notes: ‘To be evil’ uses manŋoss, but is rare. Generally actions or occasionally thoughts are described as evil or good, not people or things. kamɒzmajoztinŋoszivi kɒzkatɯzivi mow ka-mɒz-ma-jozti-nŋos-zivi (stem: manŋoss) kɒz-katɯ-zivi … Continue reading “”
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These are words that’ll let me translate stuff that I have noted in my lexicon to translate, so it’s a bit random. jaŋ – choose, decide, decision, choice. IPA: dʒaŋ chɯnchɯŋ – to retell, to tell a story, to narrate; a story, tale, or narration. From chɯŋ, to speak or tell. IPA: tʃɯn.sɯŋ fiβkii – to wear, a piece of clothing. … Continue reading “”
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Trying to catch up. These are all body parts. A couple are expansions of other meanings (I’m only including significant additions) and those have all the info. The rest I’m not taking the time to make the plurals and pronunciation and everything else. liiwnɒ – spine or snake. related to lin, long and narrow vooriy – attempt, … Continue reading “”
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I’m a bit behind, but I’ll catch up tomorrow or so. I’m trying to get the entries in my lexicon that are in progress finished so I can tell what I’m missing. There’s about sixty of them. Anyway, here’s a word derived from an entry I worked on today. Lexeme: kymiirary Gloss: to frighten, to scare, […]
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I suppose I should give some quick background on my language. It’s called Ŋyjichɯn ( /ɱɪ.ˈdʒi.ʧɯŋ/ ) Because of its stress and alternation the pronunciation doesn’t match the spelling, although it’s predictable if a bit complicated. It’s a polysynthetic language with heavy noun incorporation, affixing, and reduplication. The default word order is SOV, but in practice the most … Continue reading “”
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I decided to do Lexember this year. For those of you who aren’t conlangers, that means I add a lexeme (basically a word) to my conlang everyday and share it. So, yay! Lexeme: sai Gloss: a common tree with smooth speckled bark and large lobed leaves Irregularity: Static Noun Combination Form: sai Stress: IPA: Nyjichɯn … Continue reading “”
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How about a word that I’ve actually got a sentence for? chun – cat, to be a cat, to be cat-like paucal / plural: chɯɯnnu / chunnu said: chum / chɯɯnnu / chɯnnu IPA: tʃoɱ / ˈtʃɯːn.no / ˈtʃɯn.no moŋ chunɯn βijy ŋazyvzɯ? Is that your cat? moŋ chun-ɯn βi-jy ŋa-zyv-zɯ 2.SG.POSS cat-ACC that-NOM 3.SBJ-3.POBJ-Q ɱɜŋ ˈtʃɯn.ɯŋ ⱱʏ.ˈtʃi nɜ.ˈzi.zɯ
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Woo! I’m up to 137 ‘words’ (lexemes) in my lexicon and 55 entries that don’t count (affixes and roots). Here’s a couple of words: nyki – leaf, feather, or scale. paucal / plural: nykyyki / nykiki pronounced: mity / mityy’ki / mityki IPA: ɱɪ.ˈdi / ɱɪ.ˈdiːʔ.gʏ / ɱɪ.ˈdi.kʏ And a word derived from it: natryyki – leafy, feathery, scaley from ‘nyki’ and ‘-atry-‘ […]
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I’ve been working on my conlang a lot. I have a newer version of the tiddlywiki to upload, but since everything is tagged ‘wip’ I’m holding off. I also started a tiddlywiki lexicon instead of doing it in Excel, because it’s more useful for translations and notes. I’ll upload that as well at some point. … Continue reading “”