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My point being that that ain't tp, or even a dialect of it, but another language altogether, which may share some history with tp but otherwise not. Tones are a nice device, though tend to cut back on the popularity of a conlang that uses them, and they need to be carefully chosen , not just for bad...

Aesthetics. 'kili li lon sewi palisa' "a poley high thing" or 'palisa sewi' " a high pole"? "soweli li tawa sewi wawa tan ni." 'tan ni la soweli ...' maybe even just 'li sewi wawa' (and maybe not). not aesthetics "taso ona LI ken ala kama jo e kili." back to a...

Somewhere in either the vocab items on this site or in the notes about what Sonja is thinking, 'lukin' is used for "try" but I don't know what the final status will be. The stuff before 'la' is in a muddle. I would read 'tenpo mute pini' as "a long time ago" and 'tenpo mute' alon...

Nice hieroglyphs, though some of the characters seem arbitrary, perhaps because of the limited set available.

Oops! It does mean that and I forgot the compound preposition.
Yes, 'tawa' weka' is clear, 'tawa monsi' is not so much.

Oops again (a two mile walk and an hour swim -- well, water play -- clears the head) 'lon sewi palisa' means "above the pole"; "on top of the pole" would better be 'lon pini palisa' or, better yet, 'lon lawa palisa' (skipping jokes about a pole-ish king).

'mute' seems tto mean both "much" and "many" (apparently"mnogo" does , too), that is, both mass and count. English uses the two words to (often) distinguish the two senses of time, rather than having two words. tp seems to have only one word in each category, which make...

I'm having trouble figuring out how someone can be 2/3 god and 1/3 human (the Chinese Remainder theorem seems to say it can't be worked out with pairings).Ah, well, myths and legends! 'ona li toki tawa jan mama Alulu e ni' the grammar puts prepositional phrases modifying the whole after the object '...

janKipo wrote:'ona li toki tawa jan mama Alulu e ni' the grammar puts prepositional phrases modifying the whole after the object 'e ni tawa mama Alulu' but I am not sure how firm that is (few counterexamples, all called into question, and some defended by trying to find a way to introduce prep phras...

Hmmm! But 'mute lili' is in play as somewhere between 'lili' and 'mute' ('lili mute' is smaller/fewer than 'lili' -- I'm not sure where 'lili lili' is).