Category: Innocence Seekers
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Datutan, a Donsilan language
This post will focus on one of the Donsilan languages I have in development. Datutan is the principal common language of the pendant holders and Alcea, and shares a great resemblance with the Indo-European languages (see my previous post for the reason). While it is still in its infancy, I can mention some things here.
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Overview of the Donsilan languages
This post will go over the languages spoken by the Donsilans. By nature, the Donsilan languages have more grammatical “complexity” than human languages, making them rather difficult to learn for humans. In addition, Donsilan languages change little over the years (for the common language of the pendant holders, the writing system used can easily be…
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Episode 49 of April Light is delayed
I had planned to release the first episode of the fourth chapter of Innocence Seekers: April Light sometime around August 24, but due to the death of my grandmother I have decided to delay the release of this episode. The episode’s release date has been pushed back to early or mid September, and I plan…
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Upper monograde and bigrade verbs in Namari
This post will detail two particular categories of Namari verbs. One thing I noticed when going through Japanese verbs is that there are only a small number of upper vowel-stem verbs (ending in -iru) compared to their lower counterparts (ending in -eru). As such, I will analyse each Japanese upper vowel-stem verb and see if…
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Episode 48 of April Light is released
Just now I have released episode 48 of Innocence Seekers: April Light, thus ending the third chapter. You can read it on the wiki here. I currently have no exact timeline on when I will begin the next chapter, but I plan to do so sometime in late July or early August.
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – A sneak peek at chapter 4 of April Light
I am close to finishing the final episode of the third chapter of Innocence Seekers: April Light, but this blog post will show a few of the plans I have regarding the next chapter. It will be largely set on Elrodom, and follows the pattern of the previous two chapters, both of which involve searching…
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Colour terms in Namari
This will be the first of a series of posts on the vocabulary of Namari. The topic of this post is colours. Here I will detail the colour terms used in Namari, their meanings, and their etymological history.
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Irregular inflection in Namari
This post will detail some of the irregular inflection found in Namari. Like any natural language, not all words in Namari inflect regularly. This is mainly prominent in verbs, due to the nominal declension system being relatively new, but some nouns do show irregularlities.
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Namari orthography and romanisation
This post details the orthography of Namari, as well as the main romanisation systems in use. Namari is primarily written in kana, although in the past Han characters have also been used (their use in the present day is largely limited to disambiguation). In terms of romanisation, the most common system is a modified version…
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Innocence Seekers: The Black Rose – Namari pitch accent
This post will focus on the pitch accent of Namari dialects. Much of this post will focus on the Yaezora dialect, as it is the most complex of the major Namari dialects with regards to pitch accent. However, I will talk a bit about the pitch accent of Chiyohara dialect.