quoting Dhok:

The lexicon is (google doc).

well now that was blasphemous

Also: Morrígan! 欢迎光临！

quoting Morrígan:

I like the loss of nasals with compensatory lengthening before aspirates, that's kind of a cool touch. As is the behavior of syllabic nasals with respect to stress.

Not much to say about the vowels; I'm never happy with my vowel systems or changes, they always feel wildly derivative, or boring. I need to get back to work on Kuma-Koban in the future; it's literally been like 3 years.

Yeah, my first plan was to pull a Sanskrit, collapse everything but the high vowels, then shuffle things around from there. To the surprise of nobody, there were too many a's and ā's for my liking. (There are a lot of them here, too, but for different reasons). I am also thinking about replacing the laryngeal change (0) to the intial-laryngeals-vocalize-before-consonants change of Greek and Armenian, since Oxic is shaping up to be (most) closely related to Greek.

And welcome back! We've missed you.

Yeah, my first plan was to pull a Sanskrit, collapse everything but the high vowels,

Hasn't Sanskrit already (partly) done that?

quoting meficat:

Yeah, my first plan was to pull a Sanskrit, collapse everything but the high vowels,

Hasn't Sanskrit already (partly) done that?

Sanskrit merged PIE *e o ē ō, even in diphthings, to a ā. Most of its vowels are a or ā, which makes memorizing endings difficult (they all look the same).

The o > a changes do look pretty good though, in terms of the results. Lots of as, sure, but it definitely looks good in the oblique plural -bas. Plus, it's like Slavic; not the most imitated of branches.

I pulled a sorta-Sanskrit by merging only unstressed *e o into *a. When stressed they merged with *i u. Which is nice, cos it partially preserves PIE ablaut, and creates a new ablaut system.

quoting KathAveara:

I pulled a sorta-Sanskrit by merging only unstressed *e o into *a. When stressed they merged with *i u. Which is nice, cos it partially preserves PIE ablaut, and creates a new ablaut system.

That's not very far from what Germanic did (s/stressed/short/ and a few other things).

...link and/or descriptions? I've seen maybe 5 Slavic conlangs (not counting the Romance crap from Il Bethisad) in my years on the 'net.

This is perhaps because Aino is from Poland and hence will have frequented polish conlanging boards.

Well, I am not the KGB; it was just the nearest conclusion.

It is comforting that even in this day and age some things are still private, no? ~

Yessssss... private... (cue maniacal laughter)

your IP-vision is no more effective than mine

unless you are a hackstalker

Why does the file read

?

quoting Jipí:

Why does the file read

STRENG
GEHEIM

?

TOP SECRET I think. Probably related to the circumstances of Krieger's birth (spoiler alert: he's a Hitler clone)

Welp, in my defense, I'm not familiar with that comic, or animated series, or whatever. But yes, it's German for "top secret".

The verb system is still happening. Just slowly.

So two months is a pretty good amount of time for a verb system to happen in. Any plans there?

This is looking promising. Please don't be dead, Old Oxic.

Uh...

Sure, I'll try and look back over this this weekend. I can barely remember what I was doing, by now, but I do remember liking it.