The random nerdy interests of a random nerdy person
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 important word is placed in front.
Now on with the lexemes:
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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
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.
And a word derived from it:
natryyki – leafy, feathery, scaley
I need to come up with example sentences for both of these. I’m open to suggestions
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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 I have a newer version of the tiddlywiki to upload, but since everything is tagged ‘wip’ I’m holding off.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.
I recently changed the alternation so I have to redo all my words, but here’s one that’s done:
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(weird spelling in the title to is how I write stuff when I don’t have the full character-set)
As requested from my girlfriend. I actually thought I had this word and didn’t, so here you go.
Our word of the day is ŋafnɯŋyɒ
Meaning: girl. Literally ‘female child’. Can refer to people or animals (people only would be ŋafnɯŋwyw, but that is almost never used).
It’s one-thirty in the morning and I don’t feel like figuring out the stress so I can figure out the alternation, so you don’t get the pronunciation. Maybe in the manana.
As always, requests accepted and you can see more Ŋyjichɯn by following the link on the sidebar to the tiddlywiki.
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I’m working on Ŋyjichɯn again. I’d like to get it up to 500 words and get the tiddlywiki cleaned up enough that I could submit it to the Conlangery Podcast to be considered for the featured conlang. Since I’m currently obsessing about it, I’ve decided to do a Ŋyjichɯn word of the day for at least a while.
Our word of the day is Ŋyjichɯn.
Meaning: name of the language, to speak Ŋyjichɯn. From ‘people speech’
It’s pronounced /nʏ.dʒi.tʃɯŋ/, or for those who don’t speak IPA, Ni-jee-chung, where i is like in ‘bit’, ee is like in ‘meet’, and u is like the vowel in ‘hook’.1 (I’d like to do a recording, but can’t at the moment).
Any words or sentences you’d like to see?
1. It doesn’t exactly follow the spelling because of alternation, but all the sound changes are easily predictable.
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Here’s Nathan Burton, Delia Troy’s (aka the White Knight) husband. This replaces the previous design, although he doesn’t usually run around shirtless.
The pic came out a little darker than I wanted, but I don’t really feel like putting in more hours adjusting it, doing test renders, and then waiting an hour+ for the final render. His hair is dark brown, not black, as are his pants.
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Shard City is a big place, so she’s not in charge of the whole police force. She’s the person Delia (as the White Knight) interacts with the most, and the boss of the three police officers I’ll be using the most.
She’s very tall, white, far-sighted, trans, bisexual, and disabled.
She generally doesn’t wear a prosthetic unless she’s going to be working in the field or doing target practice. She was born with about six inches to her right arm and while the prosthetic is really good, it feels weird to her.
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Yes, I finished the second one before I finished this one. Their faces are more or less done, although I need to thicken up some lines. Any sketch lines missing are because I’m working on top of a Poser image (I need to redo the characters into Daz using Genesis 1 – I’ve done Wild Rush, but that’s it)
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Yeah, I had a couple of these done and never posted them. Both of these are for the second one, holding hands. There’s non-explicit nudity in the second one, btw.
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Just some head shots for model sheets.
I did these quite a while ago (oh god, 2013, really?!) and never got around to posting them, but since I’m typing up things for Camp Nanowrimo and so am in that folder, I saw it. And I never finished the art for the unposted third vignette. And I still need to finish the longer piece…
So yeah. It’s under the read more.
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