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Anyone out there? :) I've just started a very rudimentary conlang primarily inspired by (Ancient) Egyptian, with some stuff from other Afro-asiatic languages (perhaps particularly Semitic, if for no other reason than info on Semitic languages seem more readily accessible!). I'm developing it principally for a fiction project, wanting a language that has a vaguely Egyptian/Semitic flavour but that is distinctly not any real current or past language. Still, I expect to take a lot of Egyptian roots and build my own phonology and grammar around them (though vaguely reflecting some real bits of real grammar where that works for me. For the moment, at least, I'm calling my new conlang "Dashratic" in honour of it being "not Egyptian" -- historical Egyptian kmt being the "black land", contrasting with dSr.t "red land" = desert. I've essentially added rather arbitrary vowels and tacked on what will be my standard nominative singular ending -u (I read somewhere that this is a possible Proto-Afro-asiatic nom.sg. ending, so why not?) to create a feminine noun "dashratu", /daS.'4a:.tu/, theoretically based on a (masculine nominative singular) adjective "dashru", /'da:S.4u/. (I haven't really decided on rules for syllable stress, but have just been deciding to see where I put it when pronouncing the word without thinking about it, and then "refining" my phonology by marking stressed vowels as long after the fact. :) So far I have a very simple declensional structure for nouns and adjectives, with masculine and feminine genders, singular and plural numbers, and 3 cases: nominative, oblique, and genitive. Having been mainly concerned with constructing names and such, I haven't worried too much about verbs ... yet. I suppose at some point I will construct a later/daughter language to create a little Dashratic family (a "not Coptic" from my "not Egyptian" ;) but I haven't worried about that yet either. Cheers, Carl