Lextreming into a new year~
Last year, as some of you know, I participated in Lextreme2018, a conlanging challenge of sorts on social media (I did mine via twitter mostly) in which you create at least one new lexeme (word) for your conlang(s) each day of the year. It had been an extension of Lexember2018 (making a new word each day of December), and I did it all of last year. I did Lexember2019 this year, and I decided I’ll continue with Lextreme2019 again for the new year! Conlanging is a highly personal, meditative, relaxing, expressive, and enjoyable pursuit for me, and as I continue to be a very busy grad student, I have purposefully cultivated a range of other passions and hobbies to help maintain balance in my life (it is so very easy to become obsessed with academics). Conlanging has been one of my constant companions throughout the years (going on 20 years now), and simply put, I adore it and want to it all of the time! I want to combine Lextreme2019 this year with even more worldbuilding details and cultural information with each word.
For Jan. 1, the first entry for Lextreme2019 is in Karkin. Karkin is a language spoken by a cultural group of zuna people (the same species as the Tosi, Selupa, etc.). It is an agglutinating language with an active-stative verbal alignment system, and a pretty sizable phonemic inventory (e.g. it has a lot of different sounds). Karkin: [adj] ēqh /e:χ/ ‘old, ancient; previous, prior, former’ Note: This word isn’t used to describe the age of people. Rather, the word īvë /i:və/ means ‘old’ as in ‘elderly’ to describe a person’s age.
Example:
"Axte ēqh mi kasshi'ë pa sashupa" /'axte eːχ mi 'kaʃʃi-ʔə pa sa'ʃupa/ 'I grow grain on my old farm'
