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I would like to say something like These are the same as my house. I’m not sure if this should be: ni li sama e tomo mi. or ni li sama pi tomo mi. My understanding is that you only use e for …
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I have this burgeoning principle of “let all words be in a base form such that the base form means the abstraction behind a noun, verb, and adjective”. Then you realize a word into one of …
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I am trying to have every word have a corresponding noun and verb, to see if it’s possible. Currently I am focusing on prepositions, which need some massaging for the conlang I’m working on, as I don’…
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I am basically getting to the crux of my assumption in the conlang I am working on. That is, treating every word as a “base”, which can be realized into either a verb, noun, or adjective, or …
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I am struggling figuring out how to consider “function” words (like particles or prepositions) in a conlang. Verbs, nouns, and adjectives have been relatively straightforward but not these …
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At the moment I have my fictional language written down in a notebook, but as the vocabulary increases its becoming harder and harder to find words. I am adding new words all the time, so writing …
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Is there any evidence that a ‘natural’ language that exists today was created by somebody a thousand (or two) years ago. And that it evolved till today?
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I’m trying to come up with a conlang for a setting where spoken word casts magic etc. In this case, a group of wizards, etc. Develop arcadian, which functions to give the most information with the …
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I was under the impression, until recently, the la in Toki Pona is a topic marker of sorts similar to the Japanese topic marker wa but used less frequently since Toki Pona is not topic-prominent. In …
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Would it be correct to say that the majority of computer programming languages (such as functional or procedural) are the form of constructed languages? If so, what makes it a constructed language in …
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Are there any tools out there to keep track of which works you have already defined, managing your lexicon easily, and storing conjugations and the like? Barring that, what are some good strategies …
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In Toki Pona, the small word o has several meanings. In the official book Toki Pona: The Language of Good, it says The particle o has three uses: (1) after a noun phrase to show who is being …
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