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cash or check?

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My next novella, The Last Lady of Lună, will be out October 15th.

I was a child when enemies destroyed our clan.

My mother escaped and raised me in secret. Without my fathers' blood, she aged and died. Now I am the last head of Clan Lună. My enemies think I am dead, my clan is scattered to the winds, and I am just coming into my powers. I will claim my birthright, rebuild my clan, and destroy our enemies. I'm just going to need a bit of help.  Luckily I know where to find it. A hot team of human mercenaries specializing in security is looking for their next job. They're exactly what I need. Now I just need to convince them to believe me, keep my secrets, and rain hell on my enemies.

And if Lună is still watching out for me, maybe I'll finally get laid.

The Last Lady of Lună is a slow burn paranormal romance and the first in a series about Natalia of the Lună vampires, her five mates, and the future they will build together. Contains FF, MM, and FMF relationships. No AI.

Available for pre-order on most retailers:
https://books2read.com/b/m0LQYW

*sigh* yeah, I didn't think the charts would com through right...

Nouns are the exception to the general isolating nature of the language, being fusional.

Fusional means that a single change in the base word conveys multiple pieces of information. Spanish verbs are fusional -- estar -> estoy, oy indicating person (first), plurality (singlular), and time (present).

For nouns in fahngow, there are three pieces of information that need to be conveyed:

*Gender/noun class -- fahngow doesn't have 'gender' in the sense of 'male or female', but all nouns are associated with either mountain or river.

*Plurality -- where english has singluar or plural, fahngow has singular, dual, or plural

*case -- I'm not sure how to explain case w/o writing an essay. It mostly doesn't exist in English, except for pronouns. I vs me and She vs her are examples of case. fahngow uses ergative/absolutive case, where English uses (I think) indicative/objective case.

Nouns are declined by adding a prefix to the root word.

So bau is river, abau is a singular river in the ergative case and a river-class noun, howbbau is two rivers in the absolutive case and a river-class noun.

   River   
   erg.   absolutive
plural   a   sa
dual   u   howb
single   ah   zee
      
      
   Mountain   
   erg.   absolutive
plural   ee   sow
dual   ha   hah
single   ow   zau

Oh, that looks interesting! I made up a language too, starting when I was about 14 I think? And it developed into its final form over the course of a decade or so. (It was intended for a fictional world of mine, but I never wrote that story, actually.) So I'm curious to see what you will share here

Thanks! I got deep into conlanging about 8 years ago for another project. This was meant to be 'just' a naming language, but it's turning into a full conlang bc I can't stop myself (and don't really want to).

This has reminded me of my long-standing ambition to get round to learning the phonetic alphabet... I also learned what an isolating language is from searching the concepts in this post, that wasn't a concept I had the actual word for before!

The last time I did much conlanging was for the S'ruba, one of the main alien species in my Cepheida setting: that was more focused on working out unusual ways of structuring data in a language that could be logical but with pathways that we don't really use as humans.

Alien languages open up so many fascinating possibilities!

wand

Squirrel.

Would you rather be extremely tall or extremely short?

Pixabay is another good one for 2d images
https://pixabay.com/

Starting a new conlang for a story my partner and I are working on.

To keep things easy, I started with the English language phonology and removed sounds, rather than coming up with a phonology from scratch. My final phonology had 19 sounds, which is a bit on the small side but not ridiculously so:

b
f
h
k
m
p
s
v
z
tʃ
θ
ŋ
æ
i:
ɒ
ʌ
aʊ
ɑ:
ɪəʳ

And set up rules for word building (can never have two vowels next to each other, words always start with a consonant, ɪəʳ only shows up at the end of a word).

And I decided I wanted an isolating language with some fusional elements. Because why not?

Next up:

Building the grammar!
(Hope this is a good spot for this post, didn't see anywhere else it seemed to fit)

hunger

Archivist. Summers spent at digs ain't happening in my life right now.

Eternal summer or eternal winter?

weaving

Random fish. I miss the ocean.

Would you rather live under a hill or over a forest?

Hi! Welcome to Exilian!

Queer spec fic sounds right up my alley (particularly as I attend an LGBT+ book club in my area, and we're always looking for more books to acquire for the library and then read in the group!), what have you written?

I've got a handful of short stories and novellas published. My fiction is currently only ebook form, though I'm hoping to get What You Will (Queer-er shakespeare re-telling) out in paperback this winter.

Most of my current stories are written and published as webserials, then I try to take one or two a year and release them as epubs. https://www.story-aerie.com/the-story-aerie-catalog/