User talk:Greatbuddha

Hello!
Thanks for joining Conlang Wikia! Are you new to conlanging at all? :)  Pá mamūnám ontā́ bán  14:57, June 9, 2012 (UTC)

I'm new to conlanging, but not linguistics in general

Okay then, any questions? Also, don't forget to sign your posts with four tildes ( ~ ).  Pá mamūnám ontā́ bán  15:08, June 10, 2012 (UTC)

Are There any native American inspired conlangs here? I've noticed a little bias towards the Western half of the indo european language family. Also, do you know of any fusional languages that aren't indo european or semitic? I've only found 2, a finnish language and Oregon language, both of which are nearly extinct.Greatbuddha 21:56, June 10, 2012 (UTC)

Well, in all honesty there aren't a great deal of active conlangs on here. I do have an offline conlang that is inspired by many languages including native American languages, but if and when I get it online it won't be on this wiki.  Pá mamūnám ontā́ bán  22:02, June 10, 2012 (UTC)

The noun morphology section of Behru cesik has become completely uneditable, even though it still displays. Do you know how to fix this?Greatbuddha 18:33, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

What do you mean by uneditable? Can you edit the code and it just won't submit or what?  Pá mamūnám ontā́ bán  20:10, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

I fixed it, for some reason the Header "morphology" contained only 2 lines of text that i could edit, i fiixed it by undoing some edits.24.245.14.163 22:22, June 13, 2012 (UTC)

Oh, how strange. Glad it's fixed then.  Pá mamūnám ontā́ bán  08:38, June 14, 2012 (UTC)

How would you suggest I add Behru orthography to the wiki? The only optionI can think of is taking pictures of the writing in my notebook. Formatting it to non picture format would be nearly impossible, as I decided to make a script that combines hangeul syllable blocks with devanagari conjunct consonants, which is already hard to format on its own.Greatbuddha 17:47, June 29, 2012 (UTC)

I think you would have to write it out on blank paper and scan it then format it as a .png with black text and a transparent background.  Pá mamūnám ontā́ bán  18:09, June 29, 2012 (UTC)

How do you edit the word list at the bottom? Greatbuddha 13:40, June 30, 2012 (UTC)

Hi, don't think we've, eh, met! I'm Waahlis! There are two ways of editing it, either you click the top right button and enter "source" mode and add your words there, or hover over the green jigsaw, and then press edit in the left corner! Hope it helps! I like your lang, by the way! kyām dēkәr 13:53, June 30, 2012 (UTC)

Thanks:)Greatbuddha 13:56, June 30, 2012 (UTC)

Diacritics
Do any of you know how to type all of those characters with complex or obscure diacritics. Considering all the "keyboard seizure" romanization methods for conlangs I'm pretty sure someone knows how to combine ë, ü, î, l, and r with ´ and ` Greatbuddha (talk) 23:33, August 1, 2012 (UTC)

It is possible to use this site, or you download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, MKLC, which lets you design your own keyboard. It's completely free and very user-friendly! There are probably other methods, but I prefere these two. -- non nobis solvm (Waahlis) 08:47, August 2, 2012 (UTC)

Category pages
I've completely screwed up at putting Behru cesik and its vocabulary page in the same category. I've just created two duplicate pages. Anyone capable of fixing that? Greatbuddha (talk) 02:53, August 19, 2012 (UTC)

Hi again! I think the admins are away at the moment but leave a message at MOB's and Timemaster's wall and they ought to help you. non nobis solvm 09:52, August 19, 2012 (UTC)

Do the admins ever try to clean up the wiki of all the dead pages. I've just noticed two pages that consist of definitions of only one slavic word created recently, and they seem like senseless clutter. Greatbuddha (talk) 02:55, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

I would had I been the admin... Unfortunately one of them is inactive and the other one is on vacation! We are however voting for new admins should you be interested in voting or nominating yourself! non nobis solvm 18:22, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

Verb conjugation tables
I beleive I have officially made Behru cesik completely impossible to make a conjugation table of. The verb can hold 4 voices*3 tenses*9 moods*116 subject-object-transitivity suffixes, which would require a conjugation table with 12,538 cells. I've added some inuktitut features like subject-object marking and possesesion marking to completely eliminate all person pronouns from Behru. Greatbuddha (talk) 21:52, September 7, 2012 (UTC)

lón kána galik?(?) How are you? Noticed you were on editing your conlang around the same time as me and I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm still pretty new to the whole thing, but I'd be interested both in poking around and figuring out a bit more of the details behind yours, and if you were interested your thoughts on my own conlang.

All the best.

Fauxlosophe (talk) 17:44, September 8, 2012 (UTC)

Interesting. I don't know enough about the languages to comment much, except that Inuit is known for crazy compounds. I went in the opposite direction myself, when I first came up with it, Fén was an Analytic Isolating language [I thought it'd be a interesting twist to have a vaguely Indo-European language go that route], but laziness in coming up with new morphemes made it rather Synthetic, still you can see the old roots of it I think. If it looks good for a first shot, it's because I've been working on it for a few months now. I originally came up with it for a game a friend was organizing [he had his own language for it, but it was more Japanese through a cipher] and have sort of been playing with the language since. I've got a few things written in it and have been trying to encourage people to get together and have a second go at the game since. The main issue is that it's sort of cobbled together from what I know rather than having gone through any proper process, so I don't really know the terms and am awkwardly applying the Latin words as I look them up.

Also, how would that be translated? When I cobbled it together, I tried to make it read "What is the way that you are?"

Oh, xü`weyecka translates literally as "are you healthy" xùwe means to fluorish, be healthy, ej means the word is a question, and ka indicates a second person subject. The suffix ej requires a weak stem, so xùwe becomes xü`we. Then ej is tacked on and with sandhi it becomes xü`weyej. Finally, ka is added, indicating a second persone singular subject and the voiceless k devoices the preceding voiced j to c, thus xü`weyecka. Xùweyu is much more simple, it isjust xùwe +u, which means I am healthy Fauxlosophe (talk) 20:27, September 8, 2012 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused on why the j became a c, otherwise it seems interesting, if tricky to learn. I'd highly recommend the [| translation competition] though, even if it's not official, it'd be nice to get a couple posts up there and maybe if it gets some admin support, we might get another round of competition. Otherwise, unless we're actively comparing and looking at eachother's conlangs it feels like they might as well still be in notebooks, you know? Fauxlosophe (talk)Link title Sounds like a good idea, but i'll probably need to spend a lot of time on vocab. By the way, the c in behru is pronounced like Ch in english, thats why it changed from j. Have you seen any other polysynthetic languages on this wiki?(or anywhere) They don't seem to be all that popular in the conlang community.